DTLA LIFE MAG #26 | MARCH-APRIL 2016 | Page 28

The Music Center shines the light on “America’s Original Multicultural Dance Company” and the use of dance to focus on important societal messages through movement and music as Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center hosts Complexions Contemporary Ballet from April 15-17, 2016 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Complexions’ performance of mixed repertory will include the west coast premiere of a choreography that honors poet Maya Angelou, along with pieces that explore such topics as love, brotherhood, adversity, and faith, among others. Winners of numerous awards, including The New York Times Critics Choice Award, Complexions has appeared throughout the United States and internationally. Heralded by the Washington Post as Cross-cultural ballet with attitude and by The New York Times as sculpture in motion, the company creates an open, continuously evolving form of dance that reflects the movement of the world and all of its cultures as an interrelated whole. Founded in 1994 by Master Choreographer Dwight Rhoden and artistic director and dancer Desmond Richardson, Complexions takes a singular approach to reinventing dance through a groundbreaking mix of methods, styles and cultures. Today, Complexions represents one of the most recognized and respected performing arts brands in the world, having presented an entirely new and exciting vision of human movement on five continents in more than 20 countries, to more than 20 million television viewers and to well over 300,000 people in live performances. Friday, April 15, 2016, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 16, 2016, 7:30 p.m.; And Sunday, April 17, 2016, 2:00 p.m. For more information and purchase your tickets starting at $34, please visit musiccenter.org/complexions Photo Courtesy of The Music Center