Entertainment & Arts
In a disarmingly cheery and inventively rhythmic deconstruction of male aggression, multidisciplinary performers Dan Froot and David Dorfman turn whole libraries of behavioral studies into the satiric “Live Sax Acts,” a three-part, two-hour dual showcase at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica.
May 1, 1999
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Sept. 19, 2008
David Dorfman Dance is a New York-based company that was founded in 1985, but it looks as if it has been simmering since the 1960s, taking all the loose-limbed, flowing improvisation and pounding energy of a hazy afternoon rock concert and infusing it with enough architectural rigor and finely tuned technique to fit into the high-speed Internet Age.
April 15, 2002
Bare-chested over kilts, David Dorfman slogs onto the stage of Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica with the identically dressed Dan Froot slung over his back.
Feb. 2, 1993
Five years ago, Ariel Dorfman was simply a provocative Chile-born writer, highly regarded in literary circles yet virtually unknown outside them.
Aug. 26, 1995
Books
HEADING SOUTH, LOOKING NORTH, A Bilingual Journey, by Ariel Dorfman, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24, 282 pages
June 22, 1998
For years following his partisan activities in Republican Spain and subsequent return to Chile, the poet Pablo Neruda was preoccupied with his heritage: his Spanish roots, the Indians of Chile, the Spanish conquest, indeed the whole of Latin America and its exploitation, including Central America, which he once referred to as “the delectable waist of America.”
April 5, 1987
Gustavo Dudamel and his wife, Eloísa Maturén, are teaming up on a production of Ariel Dorfman’s play “Death and the Maiden” that is expected to open in the fall in Hollywood.
May 11, 2015
A play’s opening-night party can encompass many things.
July 29, 1991
The series of incidents was so bizarre it might have been a chapter out of his latest published novel, “The Last Song of Manuel Sendero,” a phantasmagoric tale of repression and exile.
Sept. 16, 1987