12/29/2023 0 Comments Kaleidoscope dance and movementFlashy gymnastic skills dominated two nightclub adagios by Cate Caplin and Murray Phillips (“Time to Say Goodbye” and an untitled tango), but emotional values remained curiously absent. Strong ensemble prowess sustained confrontational pop indulgences by Adam Parson (“The Box”) and Douglas Caldwell (“Natural Man”). Works by Keith Glassman (“Bout”) and Rei Aoo (“High-Tech Rhapsody”) had promising ideas but no distinctive expression. Also fitfully intriguing: Martha Kelly-Fierro’s women’s quartet “Hyperballad,” full of artful sequencing ploys. Bubba Carr’s sextet “Bulb” had both, though Carr obviously didn’t trust mere dancing and so piled on incoherent inanities involving balloons, scarves, painted faces and an automaton. If genuine movement invention proved rare on Saturday, pop dancing with no taint of narcissism proved even rarer. And Kaleido-veteran Mark Mendonca lavished not only his vaunted technical brilliance but an untamed originality on an untitled tap trio with a dark interpretive edge. However, even candy-dancing looked great when performed with the spectacular suppleness and versatility that Sal Valsallo brought to Alex Magno’s untitled solo to music by Prince. Too many others had nothing in mind other than using pop records, the technical prowess of devoted dancers and off-the-rack movement vocabularies to look sexy, tough-and-sexy or threatening, tough and sexy. Unfortunately, too many of the pieces hadn’t been developed beyond sketchy, workshop-level etudes. But it also minimized local modern dance and unaccountably excluded all the community-based world dance ensembles that define Southland multiculturalism.īemoaning the “very few opportunities for an eclectic showcase,” Invitational founding chair Howard Ibach introduced the 13-part program, held to benefit the youth services division of the L.A. Mona has been dancing for most of her life, beginning with Ballet, Tap and Jazz as a child. WRTV previously reported on the retirement of longtime Dance Kaleidoscope Artistic Director David Hochoy. INDIANAPOLIS A storied dance company that just celebrated 50 seasons in Indianapolis prepares to launch into a new era under new leadership. After graduating college, Mona worked as an Engineer for the US Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC. While she was in college she taught Ballet, Tap and Jazz to children and adults. In its second edition, Saturday at the Wilshire-Ebell Theatre, the Los Angeles Dance Invitational offered a whole new slice of the Big Orange-one that included more commercial Hollywood choreography than Kaleidoscope typically provides. Joshua Blake Carter has been the Artistic Director for about two months now. Mona has been dancing for most of her life, beginning with Ballet, Tap and Jazz as a child. For, those who think the ever-expanding annual series Dance Kaleidoscope has a lock on L.A.
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