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Dancing With Tweets: And Other Terpsichorean News

By Victoria Looseleaf We were thrilled to review David Roussève’s latest work, Stardust, for the LA Times last month at REDCAT (click here for our coverage, which makes use of texts and tweets to help tell a story). Stardust kicked … Continue reading

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Balanchine’s Palm-Fringed Muse

By Victoria Looseleaf “Wow, I really like that headline,” our father said to us after reading our recent New York Times story on the great choreographer George Balanchine’s time spent in L.A. “So do I, but we don’t write the … Continue reading

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Eurocrashing With Wim Vandekeybus

By Victoria Looseleaf No strangers to Los Angeles – though it’s been five years – Belgian-based Ultima Vez returns to SoCal this month. The troupe is on a world tour in honor of its 25th anniversary and is performing What … Continue reading

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Laurie Anderson: Goddess of Greenwich Village

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

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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Nattering With Nigel (Lythgoe)

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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On Life, Death and Carrying On…

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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Diavolo Does It Again

By Victoria Looseleaf …and this time in its home town. It’s been too long since Diavolo, one of Los Angeles’ premiere dance troupes, performed in Southern California. Founded in 1992 by artistic director Jacques Heim, the company did strut some … Continue reading

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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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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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