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This weekend in the arts: San Diego New Music's "The Holy Ghost"; DNA New Works playwriting festival at La Jolla Playhouse; "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the Civic Theatre; Jon Savage at The Studio Door; Randall Goosby and Zhu Wang at The La Jolla Music Society; and Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio's walkthrough at the Athenaeum.
NOV. 17-23 North County-based LITVAKdance is for the first time going international with its Fall 2022 Concert this weekend. https://www.litvakdance.com/ Among the works on the program is “Every Single Grain of Rice,” choreographed by Israeli independent artist Ronen Izhaki.
This weekend in the arts: Cog•nate Collective at ICA North; LITVAKdance's fall performances; Bocón Arts' "Mía'; the San Diego Symphony with Brahms, Liszt and Wagner; Iranian folk music at UC San Diego; 'As You Like It" at La Jolla Playhouse and more.
Print It’s not unusual for dancers to perform movement to scripted text, but “Towards Belonging” takes the rare step of allowing its multiethnic dancers to script and audio record their own journeys of finding space for themselves in White America. Hearing the dancers speaking over video of themselves dancing provides a visceral connection between their words and the intense emotions their experience creates. In the case of “Towards Belonging,” director and choreographer Anjanette Maraya Ramey’s dance steps transmit frustration, fury, sadness, pain and — gradually — self-accep...
Print Travel restrictions and social distancing have nearly crippled live dance concerts and yet, it’s not all bad news. Performance opportunities that would not otherwise be available have made it possible for hope and creativity to flourish. “Dances to Strings,” a collection of eight dance videos that pair renowned musicians with original choreography, is a good example. The collaboration came to fruition when LITVAKdance director Sadie Weinberg discovered that world-class artists were quarantined in San Diego. Advertisement “That’s the thing about all of this,” Weinberg said. ...