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MALPASO AT THE WALLIS

In its Los Angeles debut just over a year ago, Malpaso Dance Company performed a contemporary program and at one point were joined onstage at the Dorothy Chandler by Arturo O’Farrill and his Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble.

For their return this week—three nights at the comparatively intimate Bram Goldsmith Theater at The Wallis—the Cuban troupe investigates the archives of high modernism. The performances will open with Jamie Scott’s restaging of Merce Cunningham’s FIELDING SIXES—music by John Cage—which premiered at Sadler’s Wells in 1980.

Ohad Naharin went to Havana last year to collaborate with Malpaso in its restaging of Naharin’s thirty-year-old masterwork TABULA RASA, which will close the shows.

Rounding out the program are Malpaso artistic director and co-founder Osnel Delgado’s OCASO, and company member Beatriz García’s new work SER (BEING).

On opening night, join the artists for a post-performance talk-back.

MALPASO DANCE COMPANY

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 28, 29, and 30.

All shows at 7:30 pm.

Bram Goldsmith Theater

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

9390 Santa Monica Boulevard North, Beverly Hills.

Malpaso Dance Company. Photographs by Lawrence K. Ho.

HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO AND THIRD COAST PERCUSSION

The Windy City is in the house this week at The Wallis with the collaborative performance of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and the music ensemble Third Coast Percussion, here for a three-night engagement in Beverly Hills.

The West Coast premiere of Emma Portner’s FOR ALL ITS FURY will open the show, prefaced by the composition “Perfectly Voiceless.” The solo work by Rena Butler is outstanding in this piece, and the energetic male pairings between Craig D. Black, Jr., Elliot Hammans, Florian Lochner, and Andrew Murdock are distinctive.

A second local premiere—Teddy Forance’s EVERYTHING MUST GO—will close out the first half of the evening. The works in Act One run in continuum, and the music for all three was written by Devonté Hynes.

After the break, the groups will perform Ohad Naharin’s IGNOREAlejandro Cerrudo’s PACOPEPEPLUTO, and Crystal Pite’s SOLO ECHO.

HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO

and THIRD COAST PERCUSSION

Thursday through Saturday, January 10, 11, and 12.

All shows at 7:30 pm.

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Bram Goldsmith Theater

9390 Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills.

From top:

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago performs choreographer Teddy Forance’s Everything Must Go with David Skidmore of Third Coast Percussion.

Hubbard Street dancers (from left) Kellie Epperheimer, Jacqueline Burnett, Adrienne Lipson, Alicia Delgadillo, and Rena Butler in Ignore from Decadance/Chicago by Ohad Naharin.

Hubbard Street dancer Craig D. Black Jr. in PACOPEPEPLUTO by Alejandro Cerrudo.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in Solo Echo by Crystal Pite.

Hubbard Street dancer Rena Butler in For All Its Fury by Emma Portner.

All photographs by Kevin Parry, January 10, 2019, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.