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...

Glee’s Brooke Lipton: Dance on Fire

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf The gal with the non-dragon tattoo – but she does have a pierced nostril – rocks. Proving we’re serious straddlers of high and low culture, we interviewed Glee’s super-talented assistant choreographer, Brooke Lipton, for a Dance Teacher … Continue reading →

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Carnage: Cuddly Not Cruel

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf Virginia Woolf – as in Liz Taylor and Richard Burton‘s Who’s Afraid Of – it ain’t. We loved Yasmina Reza’s play, God of Carnage (click here for our coverage, including our KUSC interviews with Marcia Gay Harden … Continue reading →

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Remembering Ken Russell, Neo-Renaissance Man

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf He was an incurable rabble-rouser, er, Romantic. Why else would Ken Russell, who died this week at home in England, at 84, make so many movies about artists and the creative process? His ability to make high … Continue reading →

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‘The Lady’ Is A Champ

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf They just don’t make ‘em like Aung San Suu Kyi anymore. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, the woman with the nearly unpronounceable name was the young daughter of a Burmese general who was murdered … Continue reading →

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Blue Nights: Equally Blue Days

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf Joan Didion, we feel your pain. And it is searing, as losing a child always is. Mercifully, though, Didion’s latest book on grief and loss, Blue Nights (Alfred A. Knopf), is short, because it’s doubtful we could … Continue reading →

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A Dangerous Method: Sex, Psychoanalysis and Stars

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf Whatever his method – indeed, methods – we love David Cronenberg. At least as a filmmaker, since his foray into opera with 2008’s The Fly (LA Opera), was a swat-worthy misfire. His latest flick, A Dangerous Method … Continue reading →

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Marvelous Modernists: Charles and Ray Eames

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf Who knew a chair could be revolutionary? Charles and Ray Eames did. And no, they weren’t brothers, but a wildly talented married couple who brought modernism to the masses. Their motto, “the best for the least for … Continue reading →

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Rockin’ Ricky Gervais Returns To the Globes

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf It’s no secret that we’re madly in love with Ricky Gervais (click here for our Oscar coverage, which slammed the show but touted the terrifically talented Mr. Gervais). And though we never watched The Office (either version, … Continue reading →

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Bolshoi Bye-Byes: Osipova & Vasiliev Say, “Do Svidaniya”

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf As Jerry Seinfeld (or perhaps it was Elaine…), used to say, “One door closes and another opens.” It now seems that the Bolshoi Theatre, after a six-year, $700 million renovation, is like a revolving door for star dancers … Continue reading →

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Wherefore Art Thou: Roméo et Juliette

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Victoria Looseleaf

By Victoria Looseleaf Love conquers all – especially where bad sets and plebian direction are concerned. Such is the case with Los Angeles Opera’s current revival of its 2005 production, Roméo et Juliette, now at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through … Continue reading →

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