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American Contemporary Ballet Jazz - Performance Theater - Los Angeles CA

American Contemporary Ballet Jazz Unites Big Band with an Experiential Evening

March 12, 2024 By Taylor Winters In American Contemporary Ballet, Review No Comments

It’s no surprise that American Contemporary Ballet is our favorite dance company we’ve experienced, as we’ve sung their praises in the past with The Nutcracker Suite, Burlesque and Inferno, Homecoming, and Astaire Dances. We describe them as not your mother’s ballet, and while I have brought my own Mom to ACB’s ballet before, this is [...]

The Haunting Holiday Guide 2023

December 5, 2023 By Alyssa Concha In All Saints Lunatic Asylum, American Contemporary Ballet, Dinner & Drinks, Force of Nature, Guides, Haunted House, High Desert Haunted House, Immersive Theater, Installations / Pop-Ups, Meyer2Meyer Entertainment, Performance Theater, Reign of Terror, Speakeasy Society, Theme Parks & Installations, Zombie Joe's Underground No Comments

Happy Holidays, Haunting Community! While the afterglow of the Halloween season has begun to dim, the bright lights of the holidays light our path forward. This year, our Holiday Guide 2023 provides you with the best holiday season lights displays, immersive experiences, drink festivities, and of course, haunted holiday attractions. Heat up some hot cocoa, [...]

Haunting 2023 Halloween Guide 2023 Halloween Reviews

Haunting’s 2023 Halloween Reviews

November 24, 2023 By Alyssa Concha In American Contemporary Ballet, BCR: A Place to Scare, Coffinwood Cemetery, Dark Harvest, Dinner & Drinks, Downtown Repertory Theater, Fairbrook Manor, Ferris Haunt, Fright Fest, Guides, Halloween Yard Displays, Haunted House, Haunted House of Horror, Hauntington Beach Manor, Home Haunts, Immersive Horror, Immersive Theater, La Casa de Satanas, MacDevitt Manor, Meyer2Meyer Entertainment, Mystic Terror, Out of State Haunts, Prism, Rotten Apple 907, Santa Ana Haunt, ScareScape Haunted Attraction, Straite to Hale, The Fear Experiment, The Haunted Rose, The Hotel Who, Town of Deadwood, Twisted Dreams No Comments

As the spirits return to their graves and the glowing smile on the Jack O Lantern dims, our Halloween Haunt Guide comes to a close with fewer and fewer events. But we don't want to keep up an empty guide throughout the year--rather, we want to showcase the wonderful haunted houses, conventions, immersive horror experiences, [...]

ACB The Rite Burlesque Ballet - Performance theater

ACB Trailblazes Modern Ballet with The Rite and Burlesque

October 13, 2023 By Taylor Winters In American Contemporary Ballet, Performance Theater, Review No Comments

Traditionally, ballets elicit connotations of properness, structure, and elegance. Yet, American Contemporary Ballet skirts these expectations by pushing the boundaries of dance, venue, and classical storytelling in the absolute best way possible. Beginning their twelfth season under an October moon, their first offering is The Rite and Burlesque—a three-part ballet infused with deep meaning, impressive [...]

American Contemporary Ballet - Homecoming 2023 - Performance Theater - Los Angeles CA

American Contemporary Ballet’s Homecoming Invites You Out into the Bleachers in an immersive Ballet

April 30, 2023 By Taylor Winters In American Contemporary Ballet, Performance Theater, Review No Comments

“I have regrets.” A man in a mismatched suit and a striped tie announces to bleachers full of students. But his statement is only answered by the squeak of the left wheel on the lunch lady’s cart and the smell of peanut butter and jelly in the air. “Close your eyes and imagine you’re twenty, [...]

American Contemporary Ballet - Astaire Dances 2023 - Performance Theater - Los Angeles - CA

Astaire Dances brings Astaire Films Alive in a Jazzy Nightclub with Exceptional Ballet

February 28, 2023 By Taylor Winters In American Contemporary Ballet, Performance Theater, Review 1 Comment

I was introduced to the American Contemporary Ballet (ACB) with their rendition of The Nutcracker. I was impressed by so much more than their incredibly talented dancers (trust me, they are amazing): ACB differentiated themselves with their unique use of LA high rises, full incorporation of live music, and clever misdirection in their opening to [...]

American Contemporary Ballet - Immersive Nutcracker Suite Ballet 2022 - Los Angeles CA - Immersive Theater - Performance Theater

The Nutcracker Suite Ballet is an Incredible Immersive Treat

November 26, 2022 By Taylor Winters In American Contemporary Ballet, Immersive Theater, Review No Comments

Note: The Nutcracker Suite ballet by the American Contemporary Ballet is my second favorite ballet (just under American Contemporary Ballet’s Inferno and Burlesque). The opening and article contain minor spoilers to the immersive portion of the show, so if you want to be fully surprised, stop reading now and just purchase tickets for this holiday [...]

American Contemporary Ballet’s Inferno And Burlesque is a Ballet Treat Among Gothic Horror Themes

October 16, 2022 By Taylor Winters In American Contemporary Ballet, Performance Theater, Review No Comments

The 28th floor. The elevator takes me straight up. No stops. And the doors open to a mundane office hallway. Nondescript doors on both sides, illuminated by the glow of fluorescent bulbs hidden behind ceiling panels. I walk down the hallway, until the find the door I was instructed to locate. Room 2580. I try [...]

American Contemporary Ballet - Inferno Burlesque - Triple the Horror - Performance Theater - Los Angeles - CA

ACB Opens 11th Season with Triple the Horror

August 24, 2022 By Alyssa Concha In American Contemporary Ballet, News, Performance Theater No Comments

American Contemporary Ballet opens its 11th season on October 7 with Inferno & Burlesque, a double dose of gothic horror and likely the strangest Halloween experience available in Los Angeles. This year, it adds a third – and equally eerie – performance to the program to bring you Triple the Horror. “I love Halloween and [...]

American Contemporary Ballet - The Nutcracker Suite - 2021 - Performance Theater - Los Angeles - CA - Immersive

American Contemporary Ballet Invites You to Enter the Nutcracker Suite

December 8, 2021 By Taylor Winters In American Contemporary Ballet, Immersive Theater, Performance Theater, Review No Comments

Ding. The elevator door opens to an unfinished space. On the sixth floor of an LA skyrise. Plastic sheeting divides a construction zone from a makeshift office. Two women sit at their respective desks; one leafing through a magazine, the other looking over a clipboard. Neither seem to even notice me when I walk through [...]

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