Author Archives: Victoria Looseleaf

About Victoria Looseleaf

Victoria Looseleaf is an award winning arts journalist and regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, KUSC-FM radio, Dance Magazine, Performances Magazine and other outlets. She roams the world covering dance, music, theater, film, food and architecture. Have pen - and iPad - will travel! Her latest book, "Isn't It Rich? A Novella In Verse" is now available on Amazon. Thank you for reading! Cheers...

Laurie Anderson: Goddess of Greenwich Village

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf We’ve seen Laurie Anderson, performance artist/storyteller nonpareil over the years, and, like a fine wine, she, too, gets better with age. And so we were thrilled to catch her latest, much-acclaimed work, Dirtday! at UCLA’s Royce Hall … Continue reading →

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Down the Rabbit Hole & Needing Dramamine

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf Having been a fan of Christopher Wheeldon’s work over the years, as well as having interviewed him in person (click here for our Kings of The Dance story for the L.A. Times), we were, like Alice, curious … Continue reading →

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Vive La Danse, Musique, Europe and Life

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf Pardonez-moi for not having blogged for what seems like an eternity. We didn’t even post our Venice Dance Biennale musings from July. So we’ll rectify that now, with our first and second Letters From Venezia. The festival … Continue reading →

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The (Erstwhile) Queen of Versailles

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf Building the largest house in America – 90,000 square feet – sounds absurd (and it even topped the Spelling residence…). What’s more ludicrous are the folks behind this American Versailles (named for the French chateau and Vegas’ … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Judson Dance Theater

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf Fifty years ago this month (July 6, 1962, to be precise), modern dance stepped into a new era. That’s when Yvonne Rainer (below), David Gordon, Steve Paxton and a few other choreographers got together at the Judson … Continue reading →

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Occupy Parma Ham…And Other Tales of the City

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf We love all things Italian (our Salvi harps are from Genoa), and so it was absolutely fortuitous that we were able to hop over to Parma last October for the tail end of the Verdi Festival. The … Continue reading →

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Don Giovanni: Master Seducer for the 21st Century

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf With tickets hotter than the sands of Abu Dhabi, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s first foray into opera, Don Giovanni, more than lived up to its hype – from some of the seats. Seriously, with crumpled-paper sets designed … Continue reading →

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Nattering With Nigel (Lythgoe)

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf If it’s May it must be time for another season of Fox TV’s hit series, So You Think You Can Dance. We gotta say: We love the show and are excited to see another batch of dancers, … Continue reading →

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Benjamin Millepied: Lowering the Barre

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf After he blew into town last weekend with three North American premieres for Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève – talk about an ill wind; click here to read our less than rave Dance Magazine review – … Continue reading →

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On Life, Death and Carrying On…

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf Life changes in an instant and so it did when my mother passed away suddenly on March 22, curiously enough, my father’s 88th birthday. They’d been apart for years, but having had five children together, an inextricable … Continue reading →

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