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THE 2007 COUNTER CRITIC AWARDS OF THE YEAR AWARDS
We know we’ve only been in action since May, but we’ve been toiling away like little Christmas elves to bring you the badest, most awesomest, completely ridiculous critical commentary out there. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve tore a few new holes. But mainly, we’ve been genius. So we’re going out in 2007 by honoring the [...]
Back It Up
Simone Forti & Turtles: Performance review by Benn Widdey
Returning to Los Angeles after a highly respected career as PoMo pioneer in NY dance, choreographer/dancer/writer/educator Simone Forti got together with three friends to improvise for a two week (eight performance) run at the Unknown Theater in Hollywood, October 18-28, 2007. With each show a new opportunity [...]
Pina does Japan…In L.A.
Performance review by Benn Widdey
Pina Bausch came to Los Angeles with her seventeen member Tanztheater Wuppertal and performed her 2004 travelogue-inspired take on Japan, “Ten Chi” November 8-11, 2007. Amidst a blizzard of excitement, she did not fail to appease the thousands who were able to witness this return trip to southern California at [...]
Festival of Lies
“Festival of Lies” in LA: performance review by Benn Widdey
Backed by a four piece ju-ju music band (three electric guitars and one trap set), Faustin Linyekula presented “Festival of Lies” at REDCAT in Los Angeles last week (October 24-27). Re-designing the performance area so that stage right consisted of a long functioning bar/counter [...]
N.Y. in L.A.
L.A. dance correspondent, Benn Widdey, sent us this report on a recent wave of flirtatious engagements of big gun NYC choreographers in La La Land!
The past several weeks have brought some of your hometown heroes out to the west coast. The bigger local venues can afford to bring in some of the seat-filling [...]
Review: Gloria Kaufman Dance, “Not About Iraq”
Benn Widdey turns in another review of L.A. performance. Check it out, cuz this shit sounds hot, and it’s comin’ to NYC in the Spring!
(Photos by Scott Groller)
University professor cum downtown dance choreographer Victoria Marks revealed the latest of her socio-political movement explorations, Not About Iraq, at the recently renovated Gloria Kaufman Dance Theater at [...]
Two Dimension/Three Dimension
L.A. performance review by Benn Widdey
The Regina Klenjoski Dance Company took over the Torrance Art Museum this past weekend (September 28-29, 2007) and filled it with live installations and original music by Mark Fitchett.
In a nod to the ambulatory experience of being in a museum, Triptych: feet on concrete had the audience move [...]
Keith Johnson/Dancers
Performance Review by Benn Widdey
Keith Johnson/Dancers floated into the Diavolo Space in the Brewery Arts Complex in Los Angeles last weekend (September 14-15, 2007) to present Girl Falling Towards The Sky and two other works from their repertory.
Walking into the theater, I was greeted by seven traffic cones hanging upside down over the stage (set [...]
Strong Women, Strong Voices
Performance review by L.A. correspondent, Benn Widdey
(Photo by Daio Hoffman)
The Latina Dance Project came from Texas, North Carolina and upstate New York to spend the weekend in Los Angeles at the Bootleg Theater in Silver Lake (September 6-8, 2007). The group consists of four highly accomplished dance artists/educators who have joined forces to [...]
