Ezralow Dance Company Set for Pepperdine's Smothers Theatre This Winter

Ezralow Dance Company brings its unique mix of contemporary dance and striking visuals to Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, January 10, for the first performance of 2018 at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts.

Tickets, starting at $22 for adults and $10 for full-time Pepperdine students, are available now by calling (310) 506-4522 or visiting arts.pepperdine.edu.

Ezralow Dance is a movement-based ensemble known internationally for its fluid physicality, thoughtful humor, and creative blend of vivid fantasy and dramatic emotion.

Ezralow Dance is comprised of performers, visual artists, composers, filmmakers, writers, technicians, and designers, with a diversity of creative work that includes the development and touring of signature works; a catalogue of international commissions spanning and mingling the disciplines of dance, theatre, film, visual arts, opera and performance; mentoring and internship programs; and explorative research projects combining storytelling, technology and the arts, probing the questions of dancing and humanity.

The company's founding artistic director and choreographer, Daniel Ezralow, began his professional career as a dancer with the dance companies 5X2 Plus, Paul Taylor, Lar Lubovitch, and Pilobolus; his professional life has since grown to include work as a director and choreographer in a variety of mediums. He has created live and filmed events at the Louvre Museum and the Pompidou Centre (Paris), Yankee Stadium and the Guggenheim Museum (NYC), the Getty Museum and The Ford Theater (L.A.) and the Opening Ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. As a choreographer, Ezralow has commissioned original works for Paris Opera Ballet, Batsheva Dance Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Philadanco, amongst others. His choreography and aerial creations are in The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil, Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark and the seminal musical film Across the Universe.

In television Ezralow conceived and created the About the Artists award-winning dance specials Windows (Bravo), Episodes (PBS) and Josh Groban in Concert (PBS), and has choreographed music videos and staged shows for musicians including Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli, Sara Bareilles, Sting, David Bowie, and U2. Ezralow's work has earned him two American Choreography Awards for innovative and outstanding choreography, a Choreographic Media Honors Award, an Emmy Award, Emmy nomination, the Premio Positano (Italy), a Nijinsky Award, an Ischia Award, and an NEA Choreographic Fellowship.

The Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts at Pepperdine University provides high-quality activities for over 50,000 people from over 800 zip codes annually through performances, rehearsals, museum exhibitions, and master classes. Located on Pepperdine's breathtaking Malibu campus overlooking the Pacific, the center serves as a hub for the arts, uniquely linking professional guest artists with Pepperdine students as well as patrons from surrounding Southern California communities. Facilities include the 450-seat Smothers Theatre, the 118-seat Raitt Recital Hall, the "black box" Helen E. Lindhurst Theatre, and the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art.

IF YOU GO:

Ezralow Dance Company

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 8 p.m.

At Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA

Tickets: (310) 506-4522 or arts.pepperdine.edu

Prices: $22-$45 for adults, $10 for Pepperdine students