Allyson Adams is a recent graduate of UCLA with a degree in World Arts&Cultures-Dance, concentrating in site-specific and time-based choreography. She is passionate about pushing arts & culture forward through arts education and public programs, and hopes to continue her study of dance and performance writing on staff at society805.
Monday, 19 March 2018 20:48
Review: Compañía Nacional de Danza
Review
Dance
UCSB Arts & Lectures presented Spain’s national dance company, Compañía Nacional de Danza, for its contemporary adaptation of Carmen over two nights, Tuesday, March 6 and Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at The Granada Theatre.
While the dancers possessed great skill and gave theatrical performances, the piece as a whole fell short of a truly contemporary retelling.
Monday, 12 March 2018 07:00
Review: FLAX’s The Dialectic of the Stars Bodies 2
Review
Dance
Beyond The 805
The penultimate evening of FLAX’s The Dialectic of the Stars Bodies2 features choreographer and dancer Noé Soulier. Fabien Danesi, the curator of the series, describes LA as “both cinematographic and paradisiac, but also artificial”. His inspiration for The Dialectic of the stars draws a star in Los Angeles: a place of contradiction, hallucination and mystery, at once “political and poetic.” I keep his portrait of Los Angeles at the forefront as he introduces Soulier.
Monday, 22 January 2018 09:40
Ligia Lewis' minor matter at REDCAT
Dance
Beyond The 805
The dance starts and ends with black, the absence or complete absorption of visible light. What happens in between is red; as the second installation of a three part performance, minor matter is a fervent outpouring of joy giving life to rage, rage to joy.
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