12 February 2013
Elizabeth Eckford, one of the original Little Rock Nine, was on hand January 31 at Stuttgart, Arkansas’ Grand Prairie Center when Lula Washington Dance Theatre performed its dance suite about the nine high school students who integrated Central High School in 1957 [...]
5 January 2013
Tiny tots mixed in with the adults to blast out a fuselage of conga drumming at Lula Washington Dance Theatre’s annual Kwanzaa show. And there’s a story behind it. [...]
3 January 2013
The 2012 Kwanzaa Celebration at Lula Washington Dance Theatre was not only fun and entertaining, but rocked to the wicked sound of live African drumming. [...]
3 January 2012
Meet Micah Moch, one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2012. [...]
31 December 2011
A highlight of the blistering Kwanzaa show staged by Lula Washington Dance Theatre at the Nate Holden Theater this weekend was a sinewy solo by Haniyyah Tahirah bedecked in what Washington calls a “tutu raffia.” [...]
29 November 2011
Concerns The Joffrey Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” opening at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion December 1,and Lula Washington Dance Theatre’s Kwaanza show on the 28-29 December. [...]
9 October 2011 Marcus Miller – Drums Kamasi Washington – Tenor Sax Ardom Belton – Upright Bass Mahesh Balasooriya – Piano
Last June, I had the unspeakable joy of being the writer on the bus of Lula Washington Dance Theater’s three-week tour of China, primarily in Henan Province. It was a spectacular, gargantuan [...]
6 July 2011
If your show is having a hard time finding its audience, take it to China. [...]
2 July 2011
A woman stands at stage center, her knee-length black dress draping loosely over trousers. She’s trembling. Flashing lights — a disco? faux lightening? — cut the stage’s darkness. The sound of thunder, then rain, pours from the speakers. It’s loud, overpowering. The woman suffers, she’s convulsing; her corn-rowed hair flies in the syncopated rhythm.
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29 June 2011
You’re on an international dance tour, and it’s a pretty small life. I know this because I just had the great good fortune to accompany Lula Washington Dance Theatre in China last month.
Life boils down to: What time in the morning do you have to put your luggage in hotel lobby? Hey, what’s on [...]
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gered mankowitz, photog, 1967
brigitte bardot ballerina
charles chaplin, ballet man
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“the red danube” (1949)
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