Author: Sophie Myrtil-McCourty
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Living Out Loud Los Angeles Review: ‘The Music Center’s New Dance Series Puts on Some “Moves After Dark”’
‘Alvarez used a mix of Afro-Cuban imagery, sound and movements with a fusion of hip-hop and modern dance to create a spiritual, female-centric piece that was as arresting as it was soothing. Even the sound of the water as it was splashed in by the dancers added to the soundtrack and mood of the performance.’…
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Congratulations to Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group on being awarded a National Dance Project Production grant for their new work ‘CITIZEN’
‘CITIZEN’ will premiere at Fringearts in September 2016. For more information on the NDP list of awardees, click here.
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Review – Reggie Wilson / Lynden Sculpture Garden’s ‘Moses(es)’ – ‘Rain Dance’
‘The next section took place around and within Forrest Myers’ painted steel “Quartet,” a monumental, fractured outline of a cube. The dancers used the same vocabulary, lots of liquid movement of the arms alternating with fidgety bursts of energy, but they moved individually rather than as a group. Again, the mass of the sculpture pulled…
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Reggie Wilson / Lynden Sculpture Garden’s ‘Moses(es)’ – Read the postscript from the Executive Director of Lynden
‘Dance is ephemeral, each performance unique. Some dances are fairly set, at least for a generation or so, in their choreography; others were conceived as containers for ideas that could take different forms. Reggie Wilson’s Moses(es) falls into the latter category. It is a piece his Fist and Heel Performance Group has performed for more…
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Preview – Reggie Wilson reimagines ‘Moses(es)’ at the Lynden Sculpture Garden
Choreographer Reggie Wilson, a Rufus King HS graduate, returns here to present his ‘Moses(es)’ at the Lynden Sculpture Garden on July 18. Read the preview and watch a Reggie Wilson interview here.
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CONTRA-TIEMPO LA TIMES PREVIEW – Music Center’s Moves After Dark about contemporary dance, architecture
CONTRA-TIEMPO‘s Ana Maria Alvarez just finished a new piece, ‘wade en el agua’, that premiered yesterday at the Mark Taper Forum’s pond as part of the Music Center’s Moves After Dark new series. Next performances are on July 14, 20 and 21. ‘wade en el agua’ was set on former company members and community members…
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Bereishit Dance Company – A review of their US debut performances at the Dance Salad Festival
‘The street style in dress and movement disguises finely honed skill in balancing bodies at extraordinary angles and in extraordinary configurations.’ Read the full review here.