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Los Angeles choreographer Danielle Agami of AteNine Dance Company collaborates with Chicago based Composer/Musician Glenn Kotch of the rock band Wilco with stunning results. calling glenn is a must see.

Until the Lions is an enriching experience. It is a gripping tale filled with action and physical action. Akram Khan and his creataive team take us into an alternative realm.

Matthew Bourne is a master at creating theatrical splendor with the aid of a very healthy budget, an amazingly talented production staff and cast of dancers. His new ballet The Red Shoes is a set designer's dream.

Jacob Jonas has taken the raw intensity of his dancers' best gifts and molded them into a figurative narrative. Ironically, the powerful qualities that Tim Hecker brought to On Me were not evident in his own performance.

If you are happy with simply watching beautiful bodies move through space with intermitent projections of underwater images, then you will thoroughly enjoy Aszure Barton's AWAA. For me, however, Barton has not yet mastered the craft of making an evening-long work.

BalletNOW returns to the Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center in Los Angeles. The production features dancers from six different major ballet companies, but fails to impress.

TCHAIKOVSKY, PRO ET CONTRA is a ballet by Boris Eifman that beautifully examines how Tchaikovsky's internal struggles inspired his amazing music that inspires still.

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa has created a masterpiece with her A Streetcar Named Desire for Scottish Ballet.

Los Angeles Dance Festival 2017 runs for four nights, includes 19 companies and features a highly diverse array of contemporary dance styles.

American Ballet Theatre's Whipped Cream should be seen for Ryden's sets and costumes alone. A free-floating eye and a sweetshop whose ingredients come to life create a very surreal world.

The Trisha Brown Dance Company's "In Plain Site Los Angeles" demonstrated how dance can beautifully reflex the art and sculture surrounding it.

At the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Jonas proved that he is an emerging artistic force nationally, and Los Angeles should be proud that he has chosen to base his company here.

Mikhail Baryshnikov collaborates with Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs to present Letter To A Man based on the Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. It is an exploration into the troubled mind of an iconic genius that struggles with its own problems.

Invertigo Dance Theatre presents After It Happened; a story within a dance.

DIAVOLO daredevils return to the UCI Barclay Theatre.

Slovenian born dancer Jurij Konjar performs American postmodern legend Steve Paxton's 1982 solo Bound.

The LA Contemporary Dance Company premieres "FAM" with dance, film, video projections and more at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

Pennington Dance Group celebrates 15 years with challenging work that looks forward and back.

Iphigenia: Book of Change, a multi-genre, multi-media play inspired by Euripides, premieres at The Electric Lodge in Venice, California.

Benjamin Millepied, choreographer for the movie Black Swan, presents his company L.A. Dance Project at the Wallis Annenberg Center of the Performing Arts.