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“Unapologetic Agitations” by Modern Dance Artist Nora Chipaumire
Nora Chipaumire: Zimbabwean native, Bessie Award winner, and 2011 USA Ford Fellow. Photo by Antoine Tempe. Although I’d heard about choreographer/dancer and 2011 USA Ford Fellow Nora Chipaumire for...
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Partnering with Strong Women: It’s Enough to Make a Girl Dance
Check out excerpts from our Women Hold Up Half the Sky dance residency performance. How amazing are these young ladies? I get teary just watching it. And I rarely cry. Except when “Say Yes to the...
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Gary Cooper Rocked the Vote in Poland
Scene from Ameryka. Photo by Roman Zenz. Just a couple of days before Election Day, the Skirball will be presenting Ameryka. A meditation on democracy, this work-in-progress seemed to me a...
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Planning the Exodus
Years ago I was thinking about “teach-yourself-to-dance” floor mats and how it was unfair that dance had these but theatre didn’t. I imagined that with some ingenuity we could right this wrong. All we...
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Sticking Not Stuck
I took this photo of our graphic designer, Simon Ford, as he jotted notes in front of the Rainbow Arbor, where a “Red Sea” scene will be. Following up on my last SkirBlog post, I wanted to share more...
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President’s Greeting: Mar/Apr 2013
The burning bush is one of the vinyl graphics used to help visitors reenact the story of the Exodus in Exodus Steps, a story performed by you, our visitors. During this season of Passover, the Skirball...
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Dancing with the Skirball
This Friday, December 6, Brooklyn-based indie rock band/dance troupe People Get Ready will perform at Into the Night: Progression, a late-night party taking place at the Skirball. People Get Ready fuse...
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Step by Step: An Interview with Lula Washington
The 2014 Summer Amphitheater series at the Skirball is in full swing. One of the new acts this season is the internationally renowned dance company Lula Washington Dance Theatre, performing on...
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BODYTRAFFIC Moves for Schools
Classically trained dancers. Klezmer, Ladino, and jazz music. A man lip-syncing to an Ella Fitzgerald song. High school students from all over Los Angeles. This amazing mix came together on Wednesday,...
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