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5 May 2013

Sarah Elgart’s aquatic adventure at the Music Center

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Dance Camera West adds a live performance component — fountain dances! [...]

16 April 2013

REVIEW: Kenny Barron hits the hoops for Da Camera Society’s “Chamber Music in Historic Sites”

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Review of a marvelous refined afternoon of jazz presented by the DeCamera Society’s “Chamber Music in Historic Sites” series. [...]

7 April 2013

Trisha Brown’s “Roof Piece” scales the J. Paul Getty Museum

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An urban happening, “Roof Piece,” birthed in NYC in 1971, roosted on the Getty Museum rooftops high above Los Angeles. [...]

7 April 2013

Los Angeles jazz history evoked in upcoming Kenny Barron concert at the Dunbar Hotel

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Looking forward to a great jazz concert — pianist Kenny Barron plays at the historic Dunbar Hotel in South-Central Los Angeles, where Duke Ellington often tickled the ivories. [...]

31 March 2013

“Roof Piece” (1971) to be restaged at Getty Museum Saturday 6 April

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Trisha Brown’s “Roof Piece,” an historic dance work, the mother of all site-specific dances, to be restaged in Los Angeles on April 6, 2013, at the Getty Museum. [...]

13 January 2013

Enjoy a Pall-Mall courtesy of a great commercial artist, Mary Blair

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If ever we were to select a cigarette brand, then these sketches and the final advertisement by commercial artist Mary Blair dating from approximately 1959 would influence our decision. [...]

13 November 2012

Jack Cole’s mid-century-modern dance-design hits Hollywood in 1947

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A still photo from a lost dance number in DOWN TO EARTH (1947) reflects the superb choreographer Jack Cole;’s strong design influence in post-war Hollywood. [...]

28 October 2012

Heidi’s healing happening in Elysian Park

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Review: Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre’s “Catch Your Breath” [...]

22 September 2012

Daughter Judy … Jane, his wife! Get your futurist groove on with The Jetsons’s 50th birthday.

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Fifty years old, “The Jetsons” primed this seven-year-old for the future. A huge cultural event. [...]

9 August 2012

California’s designing women unfurled

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A group of great woman artists gathered for the opening of California’s Designing Women, 1896–1986 at the Autry Museum. [...]