April 6, 2025 marked the beginning of a monthlong series of Los Angeles performing arts at the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts, known to audiences as The Soraya. The series opened with GRAMMY-winning jazz trumpeter and composer Terrence Blanchard followed by The Colburn Orchestra with conductor Stéphane Denève on the podium (April 12), and The Soraya & ARTDONTSLEEP Present Adrian Younge Something About April with full orchestra (April 17). The series ends on April 26 with LA Dances Graham 100 that includes Los Angeles based dancers from the Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at USC, CSU Northridge, L.A. County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), and three soloists from the Martha Graham Dance Company (MGDC). Tickets are on sale now.The LA Dances Graham 100 program will include two of Martha Graham’s earliest solos Satyric Festival Song and Deep Song, in addition to El Penitente, Lamentation Variations, Panorama (previously performed at The Soraya) and it will close with two pieces of Graham’s later works Conversation of Lovers, and Ritual to the Sun (Helios).
https://www.ladancechronicle.com/la-dances-graham-100-an-interview-with-lula-washington-and-tamica-washington-miller/
--LA Dance Chronicle