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Few can dance in his shoes
The versatile dancer Trystan Loucado has made waves in performances with San Diego’s top contemporary and ballet companies. Known for his long limbs and skilled partnering, the term multi-talented is an understatement. He’s also become a formidable dancer en pointe. You read that right. Trystan Loucado flexes his feet. Fold all of the toes back the other…
Read MorePlayhouse Announces Without Walls Festival for October 2013
The La Jolla Playhouse announced at a press conference today that its inaugural Without Walls Festival will be staged October 3 – 6. The Playhouse portion of the University of California, San Diego, campus, will serve as a festival village for a series of performances and events presented in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and the UCSD Department of Theatre and Dance.
Read MoreSanDiegoStory.com Critics Favorites from 2012
San Diego is as rich and varied an arts cauldron as any in the world. Wander through our extensive calendar of events here at SanDiegoStory.com and you can see what a daunting task it is to cover everything – and we list and cover only the performances and exhibitions of the professional artists in town…
Read MoreMasterworks from China’s Suzhou Museum at SDMA
If parts of Stonehenge and paintings by both Michelangelo and Raphael were at the San Diego Museum of Art, would you go? Objects as mysterious as Stonehenge and artwork as great as those by the famous Renaissance masters are all apart of Chinese history. Stonehenge, a colossal arrangement of stones in Great Britain, is still…
Read MoreEssay: 2012 Not a Great Theatre Year
Let’s face it. 2012 was by no means a great theatre year. Even so, there was good work that went on in San Diego and elsewhere, despite a disappointing overall result.
Read MoreCritic’s Notebook Dec. 2012 – Numbers and Nutcrackers
DANCE/USA An unexpected visit from Amy Fitterer, Executive Director for Dance/USA, dovetailed nicely with recent announcements from the National Endowment for the Arts. While nine NEA grants totaling $213,000 were awarded to San Diego County organizations, none were for dance projects. Most notably missing from the list was Trolley Dances which has been producing site-specific…
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