Dance & Performance
‘Kumpanía: Flamenco Los Angeles’ and the second Los Angeles International Flamenco Festival spotlight Los Angeles’ burgeoning scene. In the recently completed documentary “Kumpanía: Flamenco Los Angeles,” narrator Bruce Bisenz opens the...
Dance & Performance
Pros and amateurs alike get into the spirit at the King King, where the moves are all over the place. When a circle forms in the middle of a nightclub dance floor, it’s often one of two things: Either someone in a drunken party has decided to bust out “the...
Dance & Performance
If the latter seems too complex and fast, this more slower, smoother dance from the Dominican Republic might be the thing. A couple of years ago on salsa dance floors across Los Angeles, a new trend began to emerge. Amid the frenetic, conga-driven salsa tunes, DJs...
Dance & Performance
The Double H Club in El Segundo has a night dedicated to the iconic dance. But instead of being an ode to the 1970s disco era, the dance has been updated. There’s no fog machine, no platform shoes and little polyester in sight. There’s not even a disco...
Dance & Performance
The footwork is fancy but the cowboy hats don’t get rattled as couples hit the floor of this San Dimas club. “Cowboy Cha Cha!” DJ Rick Siana calls over the loudspeaker, indicating the dance on deck. Gentlemen in head-to-toe western garb put down...
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...
