Love and Loss
The moment arrived two-thirds into the program, near the peak of Donald Byrd’s “Love and Loss.” For more than an hour, the beautiful bodies on screen had been doing eloquent things, to curiously numbing effect.
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The Starlet in the ballroom with the candlestick. Or was it the Mobster in the billiards room with the dagger? The clues to this mystery aren’t straightforward, nor are the characters in this story. Australasian Dance Collective’s production of “Halcyon” is an ambitious new take on the whodunit genre—the latest experimental brainchild of Jack Lister. Choreographed in collaboration with the company artists, “Halcyon” explores a world of glamour and murder. Where, as Lister puts it, “adoration and envy are separated by the barest of margins.”
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The moment arrived two-thirds into the program, near the peak of Donald Byrd’s “Love and Loss.” For more than an hour, the beautiful bodies on screen had been doing eloquent things, to curiously numbing effect.
Continue ReadingSince its founding in 2012 by Benjamin Millepied, L.A. Dance Project has not been lacking in talent, ideas, or, fortunately for them, funding, something that most dance troupes desperately need.
Continue ReadingWhen a choreographer takes on volcanic and iconic works from American musical giants like Leonard Bernstein and John Adams one move they could take is to cool them down with a couple of more soothing European works in between.
Continue ReadingIf you are an insect in the superorder Endopterygota, you have the super ability to experience complete metamorphosis. You can transform from the four stages of life—egg, larva, pupa, adult—in a process called holometabolism.
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