LOS ANGELES DANCE NEWS COVERAGE

BroadStage will present the world premiere of Los Angeles Ballet's Memoryhouse, the first full-length ballet by Melissa Barak as Los Angeles Ballet's new Artistic Director. The ballet will run June 15-17, 2023 at 7:30pm at the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage....

Los Angeles Ballet’s Gala was held on Thursday, May 18 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. The evening honored philanthropists Alia Tutor and Jeff Polak. Check out photos from the event here!...

Los Angeles Ballet presents the Los Angeles premiere of Val Caniparoli’s elegant ballet adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel La Dame aux Camélias, the inspiration for Verdi’s iconic opera, La Traviata, and the classic Hollywood films Moulin Rouge! starring Nicole Kidman, and Camille starring...

Alonzo King LINES Ballet will return to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts with Deep River by company co-founder, artistic director, and visionary choreographer Alonzo King, on Friday, June 9, and Saturday, June 10, 2023, 7:30 pm, in The Wallis’ Bram Goldsmith Theater....

As part of Sacred Fools Theater Company's Ladder Up Initiative, the company will continue its collaboration with choreographer James MahKween by presenting “Reflect On: Male Choreographers” for two performances, Friday & Saturday, May 11 & 12, at 8:00 pm on the Broadwater Main Stage....

The Music Center's Dance DTLA series is back this summer for a full season of dancing under the stars on Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center! Shake your groove thing to various music genres for free every Friday, from June 23 through August 18, 2023, between 7:00–11:00 p.m. ...

On Friday, May 12, 2023 at 7:30pm and Saturday, May 13, 2023 at 7:30pm, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts will present Los Angeles-based Blue13 Dance Company. ...

Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents the North American Premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's latest ballet Like Water for Chocolate from American Ballet Theatre for six performances from Wednesday, March 29 through Sunday, April 2....

Luminario Ballet of Los Angeles bring their first full-length program Heroes, Sheroes, and Eros to The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts for two performances February 17th & 18th. Luminario founder and current artistic director Judith FLEX Helle parsed out some time from rehearsals to...

Redondo Ballet presents SNOW QUEEN based on Hans Christian Anderson's tale at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center on February 18 and 19, 2023....

Arts leader Matt Cook has been named Executive Director of Blue13 Dance Company, the Los Angeles-based dance ensemble known for presenting aesthetically and culturally daring live performances throughout the US and abroad for over 20 years....

Read BroadwayWorld's review of Donna McKechnie in Take Me To The World: The Songs of Stephen Sondheim at Catalina Jazz Club. ...

Visions and Voices, USC's premiere arts and humanities program, will present the acclaimed New York-based contemporary dance company A.I.M by Kyle Abraham at historic Bovard Auditorium on Wednesday, February 15, 2023....

Dance Camera West, globally renowned dance film festival presents its 21st edition premiering 60+ dance films in Los Angeles at the Historic Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood, Thursday, January 19, through Saturday, January 21, 2023. ...

​​​​​​​Gibney, the New York City-based dance and social justice organization, with Springboard Danse Montréal and EMPAC / Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute present Daina Ashbee's J'ai Pleuré Avec Les Chiens (Time, Creation, Destruction)...

The 7th Annual International Women's Day Dance Festival will be four days packed full of celebrating women dance artists through classes, performances, dialogue, connection and more!...

This week, Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) shared that one of the inaugural SDCF Lloyd Richards New Futures Resident Artists, Shá Cage, is completing her residency with Cornerstone Theater Company by directing Michael John Garcés's play, 36 Yesses....

Visions and Voices, USC's premiere arts and humanities program, will present the Gibney Company on Friday, January 20, 2023. The world-class, New York-based contemporary dance company's performance at historic Bovard Auditorium is free and open to the public....

For students aged 12 to 17 years old who are interested in exploring dance, Idyllwild Arts (www.idyllwildarts.org) will present a ballet masterclass with Robyn Gardenhire, the Founder and Artistic Director of City Ballet of Los Angeles. ...

Odyssey Theatre Ensemble will kick off 2023 with its sixth annual Dance at the Odyssey festival, once again celebrating new and cutting edge contemporary dance in Los Angeles....

The longest-running NUTCRACKER production in SoCal returns beginning Thanksgiving weekend for eight public performances at BroadStage in Santa Monica....

Debbie Allen Dance Academy (DADA) presents its award-winning production of 'Hot Chocolate Nutcracker' this holiday season from December 1 - 4, 2022. ...

See photos of The Hip Hop Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky’s 130-year-old ballet reimagined as a holiday dance spectacle, that will travel to 30 cities this fall while celebrating the show’s 10th season. And to add to the excitement - inspired by the live stage show, the Original Special “The Hip Hop Nutcrac...

Galiana&Nikolchev’s The Useless Room will return to the Odyssey Theatre with Ínsula. A breakout success at the Odyssey’s 5th annual Dance at the Odyssey festival last July, Ínsula will receive four additional performances November 11 through November 19....

From Oct. 13 to 15, 2022, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts' center for contemporary arts in downtown Los Angeles, presents artist Cassils with their debut contemporary dance work, Human Measure. ...

Gibney, the New York City based dance and social justice organization, opens its 2022-23 presenting season at Gibney Center with the New York premiere of Artist-in-Residence Sidra Bell's IN | REP: Introspection (An Evening of Works), October 27 through 29, 2022. ...

Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy's Ragamala Dance Company, now in its 30th year, announces their 22/23 Season, which features seven performances in Kerala, India, and culminates with a 30th Anniversary Gala Celebration in July 2023....

The Hip Hop Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky's 130-year-old ballet reimagined as a holiday dance spectacle, will travel to 30 cities this fall while celebrating the show's 10th season. Inspired by the live stage show, the Original Special 'The Hip Hop Nutcracker' from Disney Branded Television will stream th...