Photos: Laura Bleiberg’s best dance moments of 2013
The launch of @TheBarakBallet gives talented L.A. choreographer Melissa Barak and her compelling dancers a needed home for her detailed rep.
MORE: Interview with Melissa Barak | Review of ‘L.A. Moves’
Cast members perform “Wien” during a dress rehearsal of “L.A. Moves,” presented by the Barak Ballet at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)
Best of dance in 2014, curated by Laura Bleiberg.
For its astonishing dancers, @NDTdance makes this list. Medhi Walerski’s “Chamber” had pulsing power; Paul Lightfoot-Sol Leon works? Meh.
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The Nederlands Dans Theater performing ‘Chamber.’ (Rahi Rezvani / For The Times)
Alonzo King’s ballets are hypnotic epic poems. In “Azimuth” he meshed his own regal Lines’ dancers with @HubbardStreet’s whip-fast troupe.
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Dancers from the Alonzo King Lines Ballet and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago join up for “Azimuth” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in June, 2013. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
David Roussève’s sinuous solo brought his new “Stardust” to poignant catharsis. Teen angst captured in tweets, video and flowing gestures.
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A scene from a dress rehearsal of David Roussève’s latest dance-theater piece, “Stardust,” at the REDCAT in downtown L.A. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Ballet captured the roiling Romanticism in Balanchine’s “La Sonnambula,” a haunting piece of melodrama persuasively performed.
Los Angeles Ballet’s Dylan Cobb in “La Sonnambula.” (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
.@nycballet Tiler Peck & Robert Fairchild, @sfballet Damian Smith & Yuan Yuan Tan, & other guests made @FBToc gala an exceptional event.
Dancers Tiler Peck and Robert Fairchild attend the 2013 Princess Grace Awards Gala New York City in October 2013. (Neilson Barnard / Getty Images for Princess Grace Foundation)
