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THIS WEEK in L.A.
Halloween is here and isn't just for kids. There are more events and activities than pumpkins in a pumpkin patch this season. This year's assortment of tricks & treats include frightful films, costume parties and costumed pets, spooktacular entertainments and stuntacular live action, creepy puppets, haunted mansions, and other horror-ible sideshows and some Dia De Los Muertos events too. Things lo do and places to go just for the fright of it... this weekend in LA. Visit the Eye Spy LA Halloween Guide for all the details.  Charles Phoenix presents a special Halloween show at the Bob Baker Marionette Theatre this weekend - a rare opportunity to see the one and only Bob Baker, a human slice of L.A. history, perform. And cake and ice cream too.
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Gregory Maqoma Beautiful Me at REDCAT and Pilobolus at the Ahmanson Dance Reviews by Kelly Hargraves
 Maqoma's one hour solo piece, performed with live music, starts slow and meditative, and takes long enough to make you wonder where you are headed on this journey.
A strong man in a lose wrap-around tunic stands silently in a square of light. As he begins to move, it is immediately obvious this is a body than can do anything. A classical stance (first position), only slight rhythmic footwork, but a cacophony of gesture from the arms. No space is traveled really, but the kathak like arm gestures and foot stomps tell of images and stories. Upper body flexions that are more of a quiver. And then the quick African steps one "expects." When he does speak, it is in his native tongue, a clicking rolling lingo...
Read the full review: Maqoma
 I think it took me 20 years to go see Pilobolus because I was afraid of the unitards. Having seen glimpses of them in pop culture over the years, I knew the sculptural scenes that Pilobolus is famous for.
But in the year 2009, Pilobolus is trying to get hip by collaborating with other choreographers and putting a little more "story" into their vision. While still maintaining the playful, gymnastic, contact improv based movement that has made them popular with dance and non dance audiences for more than 3 decades.
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