Dance & Performance
Seven groups have been commissioned to produce new works. Forward thinking is paramount. It sounds like a job for a robotics researcher, not a choreographer: figure out a way to bathe a stage in infrared light so that a computer can send a process signal to a...
Dance & Performance
The competitive structure sets it apart from other festivals. Last spring, Los Angeles choreographer Terri Best was grappling with a creative dry spell. A dance faculty member at EDGE Performing Arts Center in L.A. for the last 17 years, Best worried that she was...
Dance & Performance
Jazz, contemporary, acrobatic and ballet comprise the program’s fifth year. In their aerial duet “Guiding Rings,” which they’ll perform Saturday night at the annual Celebrate Dance showcase at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, husband-wife team...
Dance & Performance
It sounds like the archetypal young actor’s plight, one repeated with every fresh arrival to Hollywood. “We’ve been working really hard for no money for a year,” says Jesse Bonnell, 23, president of the fledgling performance collective Poor Dog...
Dance & Performance
Performance artist Kristina Wong never imagined that living in her West L.A. apartment with her cat Oliver — her sweet, reliable companion as a single woman — would prove as difficult as navigating a bad relationship. But several months ago, she and Oliver...
