The second annual West Hollywood Dance Festival launched by Multiplex Dance and Chad Michael Hall, returns to West Hollywood this coming week, with three public performances titled “The House of Multiplex.”
These performances, which included work by established L.A.-based choreographers, dance companies and musicians, will be the culmination of a week-long festival that includes workshops for all levels, rehearsals that are open to the public, and opportunities for professional and aspiring-professional dancers to develop their craft.
This coming weekend’s three ticketed performances will be on Friday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. and from 7:30 to 9 p.m. For the evening performances, general admission is $30 and $15 tickets are available for students, WeHo residents and members of the L.A. Dance Resources Center. All matinee tickets are $25.
Visit www.multiplexdance.org/performances for tickets, which also available at the door (cash and cards accepted).
The performances will include 10 works from this year’s featured companies. They are Multiplex Dance, Antics Performance , Ballet d’Hommes, Hexagon Dance Collective and Taiko Center of Los Angeles. West Hollywood Mayor John Heilman, will attend on opening night.
The festival was designed to create a space and a place for the people of West Hollywood to engage with concert dance in fresh and innovative ways — to push the boundaries of what concert dance can be, what contemporary dance looks like, where you can see it, who can access it and how.
“The goal of the festival is to further opportunities for the dance community while presenting and offering excellence in arts for the City of West Hollywood, ” said artistic director Chad Michael Hall. “This community has never had a concert dance festival presented in this way. We are truly breaking ground.”
All performances will take place at West Hollywood Park Auditorium, 647 N. San Vicente Blvd.
The entire weeklong schedule can be seen online.
