“Zoot Suit Sizzle,” the 2007 concert by Brigham Young University’s 164-member Ballroom Dance Company, will be held at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, April 6-7. There will also be a 2 p.m. matinee on ...
You would think that the Zoot Suit is so embedded in the history and culture of Los Angeles that an authentic one would still exist, right? It took LACMA a decade to find such a garment, and they ...
Sarah Ebert may be a newcomer to choreographing for the Eugene Ballet Company, but she hasn’t shied away from the pace. “In modern dance, we take months to let things marinate — we explore, we play.
DTLA—In 1978, Center Theater Group mounted Zoot Suit at the Mark Taper Forum. The play, written and directed by Luis Valdez, was nurtured by late CTG head Gordon Davidson as part of his effort to ...
This December, the Performing Arts Series at the University of Nevada, Reno presents a refreshingly unexpected performance from San Francisco-based polyrhythmic dance and music ensemble, La Mezcla. On ...
For five years, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been working on an exhibition about the history of men’s fashion from the 18th century to the present. And for more than five years, its ...
"Zoot Suit Riots," a new show by Collide Theatrical, is a dance piece that resembles musical theater. The main difference is that singers sing and dancers dance, which solves two-thirds of the musical ...
Dozens of white tuxedos dotted the lobby of Burlingame's Hyatt Regency hotel. One young man wore a suit of muted pastels, his ears studded with diamonds, but it was 16-year-old Ian Hannah, dressed in ...
For LACMA's new exhibition on men's fashion through the years, the curators really wanted to get hold of a real zoot suit from the World War II era. Zoot suits were such a strong fashion statement ...