A Starry Night in Verona
For twenty-five years, Roberto Bolle has brought together a constellation of celebrated stars and rising talent to share the stage with him.
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Talk about Gesamtkunstwerk! Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s “Scat!...The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar,” is just that—a total work of art: operatic in scale, replete with stellar musicians and singers, and the glorious dancers of Urban Bush Women, the troupe that Zollar founded in 1984, is also storytelling at its best. Seen over the weekend in its West Coast premiere at the Mark Taper Forum—the first ever dance presentation at that venue—the 90-minute intermission-less opus is breathtaking in scope and serves as Zollar’s swan song for the women-centered troupe dedicated to telling stories of the African diaspora through traditional and modern Africanist dance forms.
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For twenty-five years, Roberto Bolle has brought together a constellation of celebrated stars and rising talent to share the stage with him.
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