Monthly Archives: January 2012

Rudy Perez: Powerful, Poignant, Provocative

By Victoria Looseleaf With only a few significant gestures – and several astute sartorial choices – this postmodern icon, at 82, is still able to seduce, as evidenced by the wildly applauding Angelenos who were out in force at the … Continue reading

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Joffrey Ballet: Born to Bourrée…

 By Victoria Looseleaf …and then some. In the new documentary, Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance, we get an inside look at the little company that could. And did: create a new form of American ballet, that is, courtesy of the … Continue reading

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Go For Baroque

By Victoria Looseleaf There could be better ways to spend a Sunday afternoon than going to a chamber music concert on the fifth floor of Los Angeles Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion – but we can’t think of any! Seriously, … Continue reading

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Modern Dance For Dummies…

By Victoria Looseleaf …could be the subtitle of Casebolt and Smith’s dance/theater piece, O(h), now playing weekends through February 19 at the Actors Company Theatre in West Hollywood, a cool space to see dance. We were the first to write … Continue reading

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Pina the Powerful, Now in Sumptuous 3-D

By Victoria Looseleaf It was a huge loss to the global arts community when choreographer Pina Bausch died unexpectedly from cancer in 2009, at age 68, some five days after being diagnosed (and not even two weeks after Michal Jackson’s … Continue reading

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My Week With (Faux) Marilyn

By Victoria Looseleaf We love Michelle Williams, but she can’t hold a candle to Marilyn Monroe in the waifish, sex bomb, whispered-voice arena. Indeed, it’s almost painful to watch Williams, all padded hips, corseted waist and neo-torpedoed breasts, trying to … Continue reading

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Downton Abbey: Our TV Drug of Choice

By Victoria Looseleaf Okay, so we arrived a tad late to the party, the feast that is Downton Abbey, the series that won six Emmys last year and will probably clean up at the Globes this weekend. But we’re in … Continue reading

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The Sense of an Ending: Or Not!

By Victoria Looseleaf Welcome to 2012 and please forgive us for not having posted earlier in the new year, but we were felled by some mysterious stomach bug after a magnificent trip to San Francisco.  That said, the short plane … Continue reading

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