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6 dancers wearing all black in different poses while connected to each other by one limb. two people facing away from the camera observe

A mention in the NY Times (by Robin Pogrebin)

Feb, 2024

Prominent choreographer Kyle Abraham names LACDC as one of the Los Angeles dance companies on his radar. (NY Times) 

6 dancers face away from the camera in a straight line spread across the upstage in front of a black curtain.  Their arms swing back behind them.

LACDC x Spain in the L.A. Times by Steven Vargas

Dec, 2023

Vargas describes Madrid-based Mario Glez' new work as a “hypnotic piece filled with rhythmic grooves.” | READ MORE

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Top Pick in L.A. Times Weekend List by Steven Vargas

Nov, 2023

LACDC's The Unseen Hours...a salon series featuring our fall creative residency is highlighted as a must-see event. | READ MORE

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Review: There’s No Rest “Dancing in Snow” by Mary Jane Agnew (ODC Dance Stories)

Dec, 2022

"Only their faces are exposed, covered with a sheer piece of white fabric and smiling wide. Smiling but not happy. Their unsettling demeanor is embodied in their direct and specific movement qualities, like they are dolls on a string.” - Mary Jane Agnew (ODC Dance Stories) READ MORE

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7 choreographers on how dance changed in Southern California in 2022 (L.A. Times)

Dec, 2022

 "'It was very cathartic to allow ["and then life was beautiful"] to unfold out of me, and it allowed me to create from a very honest place, rather than being concerned about what people might want to see,' [Jamila] says.” - Steven Vargas (L.A. Times).  READ MORE

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Review: "Dancing in Snow (San Francisco)" by Jennifer Norris

Dec, 2022

"L.A. Contemporary Dance Company… performed it flawlessly Friday evening in a touring presentation at San Francisco’s ODC Theater. …It's one hour of highly theatrical contemporary dance [with] a distressing undercurrent. The costumes alone are worth the trip.” - Jennifer Norris (Jen Norris Dance Reviews) READ MORE

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Review: "If These Walls Could Talk" by Jeff Slayton, LA Dance Chronicle

Nov, 2022

"LACDC is rapidly becoming one of LA’s strongest companies... With three world premieres on the program, Artistic Director Jamila Glass has guided to greater heights of professionalism.  The work presented was powerful and the cast is probably one of the strongest since LACDC was co-founded in 2005 by Kate Hutter Mason."

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Review of "Dancing in Snow" by Tam Warner, LA Dance Chronicle

Jun, 2022

"[George's] dance vocabulary runs the gamut from modern to jazz, ballet to street, with a deft touch of musical theater tossed in. The movement emanates from the core with the torso always in use and the arms beautifully rendered. With small gestures or perhaps a nod of the head [he] captures the musical accents and innuendo throughout. He understands the need to keep the stage moving, yet also knows when to slow it down for a solo or unison work. I was instantly drawn in."  - Tam Warner (L.A. Dance Chronicle)

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Dancing in Snow featured on Words That Move Me Podcast

Jun, 2022

“In Roderick’s piece, there is a bone rattling and like, goosebump-inducing feeling of…No, we aren’t the same and it’s really wrong to make people feel like they have to be. … Even still, three days after having witnessed it, I’m blown away.”  - Dana Wilson (Words That Move Me Podcast)  | Listen to full episode HERE