Events on Saturday, October 24

L7 Haunted Hollywoodland Movie Game

City Gems

Haunted Hollywoodland

Saturday 10/24 @ Egyptian Theatre

Grab your most knowledgeable scary movie-loving friends — or just meet some new ones — at L7's Haunted Hollywoodland Movie Game.... 

Thrill the World 2009

Party

Thrill the World

Saturday 10/24 @ TBD, check website for location details

What better way to gear up for Halloween and pay tribute to the late King of Pop than by one-upping the... 

Man One: <em>Graffiti Spirits</em>

Art

Man One

Saturday 10/24 @ Crewest Gallery

In conjunction with his current exhibition at the gallery (on view through October 31), gallery director, graffiti legend, and art activist... 

Los Angeles Off-Course Golf Open

Sports

Off-Course Golf Open

Saturday 10/24 @ Alondra Park, Lawndale

You've heard of extreme golf, but what about painted-course potluck party golf? This Saturday, the Alondra State Park is letting the... 

Mi Ami w/ Abe Vigoda, These Are Powers, and Moses Campbell

Music

Mi Ami

Saturday 10/24 @ The Smell

Mi Ami aren't the first art-school rippers to melt punk's rebel yell into roomy dub and disco-influenced arrangements, but their grooves... 

Thelonious Dub CD Release Party

Music

Thelonious Dub CD Release Party

Saturday 10/24 @ Home Silver Lake

Thelonious Dub, a jazz quartet for the modern age, releases its first full-length studio album, and it's throwing a party to... 

Funky Sole @ Echo

Music

Funky Sole @ Echo

Saturday 10/24 @ The Echo & Echoplex


with DJs:
Music Man Miles
Clifton AKA Soft Touch


FMI: Funky Sole... 

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Film

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Saturday 10/24 @ LACMA

Truman Capote's sardonic novella, about an aspiring writer who moves to New York and becomes embroiled in the troubled life of... 

Symphonies for Youth: A Musical Carnival

Music: Classical

Symphonies for Youth: A Musical Carnival

Saturday 10/24 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

Two for the Road

Film

Two for the Road

Saturday 10/24 @ LACMA

Two for the Road is a loving yet realistic portrait of one British couple whose marital ups and downs over a... 

Shelby Hiatt gets hot and bothered in Panama

Books: Reading

Shelby Hiatt gets hot and bothered in Panama

Saturday 10/24 @ Book Soup

 spanKid Sister, Flosstradamus, The Very Best & Totally Michael @ Echoplex

Music: Electronic

Kid Sister, Flosstradamus, The Very Best & Totally Michael @ Echoplex

Saturday 10/24 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Kid Sister || Watch


The head of Kid Sister’s long-awaited album is finally reaching the end... 

Craig Robinson and the Nasty Delicious

Music

Craig Robinson and the Nasty Delicious

Saturday 10/24 @ The Mint

with Craig Robinson and the Nasty Delicious @ 11:00pm    ... 

Men to Run From

Books: Reading

Men to Run From

Saturday 10/24 @ Book Soup

 spanNana, what's cancer?

Books: Reading

Nana, what's cancer?

Saturday 10/24 @ Book Soup

 spanHaunted Cop Shop (1987)

Film

Haunted Cop Shop (1987)

Saturday 10/24 @ The Cinefamily

WATCH CLIP!

Before he hit the big time with Chungking Express, sensitive art house director Wong Kar-Wai cut... 

<em>Horror of Dracula</em> (1958) + <em>The Revenge of Frankenstein</em> (1958)

Festival: Film

Horror of Dracula (1958) + The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)

Saturday 10/24 @ The Cinefamily

WATCH TRAILER FOR "HORROR OF DRACULA"!

The poster child for pre-Exorcist modern horror, Hammer’s thrilling and unapologetically blood-stained... 

New Light on Angels

Books: Reading

New Light on Angels

Saturday 10/24 @ Book Soup

 Diana Cooper presents and signs A New Light on Angels... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Intelligent Design: Interspecies Art</em>

Art

Intelligent Design

Saturday 10/24 @ Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside

Twenty international artists who explore human interaction with domesticated, imaginary, laboratory, or wild animals contribute work in media from video installation... 

<em>Giant Robot Biennale 2: 15 Years</em>

Art

Giant Robot Biennale

Saturday 10/24 @ Japanese American National Museum

In 2007, Giant Robot launched its first biennale celebrating 15 years as a magazine and a pop culture phenomenon. For its... 

The Berlin Wall Project

Art

The Berlin Wall Project

Saturday 10/24 @ Wende Museum Site

It's been 20 years since the archaic and divisive Berlin Wall was brought down by fed-up and suppressed citizens. Now, the... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Saturday 10/24 @ Vinum Populi

Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie... 

Philippa Blair: <em>Tracks</em> and Jayme Odgers: <em>Figurations</em>

Art

Philippa Blair & Jayme Odgers

Saturday 10/24 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

Philippa Blair's abstract, collage-based symphonies truly fulfill the classical adage that, "music is an abstract painting executed on a canvas of... 

<em>Parade</em>

Theatre

Parade

Saturday 10/24 @ Mark Taper Forum

The Donmar Warehouse production of Parade currently playing at Mark Taper isn't conventional music theater. Like Tony Kushner's Caroline or Change,... 

Kiel Johnson: <em>Publish or Perish</em>

Art

Kiel Johnson: Publish or Perish

Saturday 10/24 @ Mark Moore Gallery

Kiel Johnson's latest body of work examines the value of the painstakingly, unnecessarily hand-wrought in the digital age. Simultaneously examining how... 

Chris Verene: <em>Family</em> and Jona Frank: <em>Boys</em>

Art: Photography

Jona Frank and Chris Verene

Saturday 10/24 @ DNJ Gallery

Two very different photographers take on aspects of growing up in America. Jona Frank extends her intimate yet clinical style of... 

<em>Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting</em>

Art

Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting

Saturday 10/24 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

Perhaps no pop artist is as famous for his window shopping as Wayne Thiebaud. Known largely for his pale palette oil... 

The Hammer Museum Presents <em>The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb's Book of Genesis</em>

Art

The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis

Saturday 10/24 @ Hammer Museum

R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy... 

<em>I Feel Different</em>

Art

I Feel Different

Saturday 10/24 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)

Curator Jennifer Doyle gets in touch with our emotional side in I Feel Different, a group exhibition featuring multimedia works at... 

Fall Brewery Art Walk

Festival: Art

Brewery Art Walk

Saturday 10/24 @ The Brewery Art Complex

The Brewery is a sprawling complex of brick buildings that once housed beer makers. Now, it hosts several hundred studios occupied... 

Art

Frank Kozik

Saturday 10/24 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts

Henry Jaglom's <em>Just 45 Minutes from Broadway</em>

Theatre

Just 45 Minutes from Broadway

Saturday 10/24 @ Edgemar Center for the Arts

Henry Jaglom's father was a wealthy Russian businessman, and one of the few Jews Heinrich Himmler offered make an "honorary Aryan"... 

<em>The Pop of Colors</em>

Art

The Pop of Colors

Saturday 10/24 @ POVEVOLVING

"Pop colors" are the theme in curator Yasmine Mohseni's The Pop of Colors at Chinatown's POVevolving. Bright, slightly disconcerting color scripts... 

Cirque du Soleil: <em>Kooza</em>

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

Cirque du Soleil

Saturday 10/24 @ Santa Monica Pier

After a meteoric rise in popularity that spawned dozens of touring and resident shows of increasing complexity and pageantry, Cirque du... 

Alexis Weidig Zoto: <em>Life is Relentless</em>

Art

Alexis Zoto

Saturday 10/24 @ Overtones Gallery

Through the deft and witty reconfiguration of sentimental objects such as ornate furniture, decorative garlands, household saints, wood, feathers, and hand-knit... 

Tony Philippou: <em>Mary in Bronxzooland</em>, Esao Andrews: <em>Farewell Avery</em>, Joshua Mays: <em>Tempo Momento</em>

Art

Tony Philippou, Joshua Mays & Esao Andrews

Saturday 10/24 @ Thinkspace Gallery

In life, as in art, the more the merrier, so the thinkers at Thinkspace regularly present multiple one-person shows.  Tonight's trio... 

Claire Oswalt: <em>Peril In Perfection</em>

Art

Claire Oswalt

Saturday 10/24 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery

While it's easy to become unhinged in our current economic climate, artist Claire Oswalt takes it to the next level, fashioning... 

Marilyn Minter

Art: Photography

Marilyn Minter

Saturday 10/24 @ Regen Projects

Fresh from a year of acclaimed exhibitions in Europe and NYC and the opening spot on Madonna's recent tour, Marilyn Minter... 

<em>Soul Power</em>

Film

Soul Power

Saturday 10/24 @ Downtown Independent Theater

Soul Power documents the Zaire '74 all-star concert that set the stage for Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's legendary Rumble in... 

Brendan Monroe: <em>Places Between Here and Here</em>

Art

Brendan Monroe

Saturday 10/24 @ Richard Heller Gallery

Brendan Monroe's paintings, sculptures, installation-based works, and publications, despite the differences dictated by mediums, expound the artist's unique interpretation of the... 

<em>Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy</em>

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Saturday 10/24 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live

The recently opened GRAMMY Museum at Downtown's mammoth entertainment complex LA Live offers visitors a rare, intimate glimpse into the life... 

<em>That Perfect Moment</em>

Theatre

That Perfect Moment

Saturday 10/24 @ NoHo Arts Center

One can easily imagine that this comedy (with music) about the midlife urge to glorify and recapture the lost promise of... 

Nate Frizzell: <em>Lost in the Thicket</em> and The Kids Are Alright

Art

Nate Frizzell and The Kids Are Alright

Saturday 10/24 @ LeBasse Projects

Nate Frizzell combines a dark sophistication with the chaos of youthful imagination in a new series of lush paintings depicting the... 

<em>Antichrist</em>

Film

Antichrist

Saturday 10/24 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematographic extreme to... 

Pilobolus

Dance

Pilobolus

Saturday 10/24 @ Music Center

Mix one part Stretch Armstrong, one part Nadia Comaneci and one part hallucination, and you've got yourself the ingredients for a... 

Mark Gleason: <em>Persona</em>

Art

Mark Gleason

Saturday 10/24 @ Cella Gallery

The timing may or may not be a coincidence, but the really-for-grown-ups fairy tale Where the Wild Things Are and Mark... 

Rogue Artists Ensemble presents <em>Gogol Project</em>

Theatre

Gogol Project

Saturday 10/24 @ Bootleg Theater

Through the use of projection, masks, puppetry, dance, and music, Rogue Artists Ensemble redefines the traditional theatre company. The collective's latest... 

Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution

Art: Photography

Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution

Saturday 10/24 @ Annenberg Space for Photography

All year photographers have been clicking camera shutters with their lenses pointed toward the action. The 66th annual Pictures of the... 

Gary Lang: <em>Circles Lines Grids</em> and Jay Mark Johnson: <em>Spacetime</em>

Art

Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson

Saturday 10/24 @ ACE Gallery

It's a veritable amusement park for optic nerves at ACE Gallery's Beverly Hills location this month, with a pair of exhibitions... 

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Art

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Saturday 10/24 @ REDCAT

REDCAT presents Autoconstrucción: The Film by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, in which the artist revisits Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico... 

Michael Dee: <em>Melted Hearts and Deadly Force</em>

Art

Michael Dee

Saturday 10/24 @ Western Project

Channeling his inner Duchamp, sculptor Michael Dee combs the florescent-lit aisles of his local 99-cent store in search of plastic cups,... 

<em>Sweets & Treats</em>: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum

Special Event

Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum

Saturday 10/24 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art

In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently... 

Mark Tribe: <em>Port Huron Project</em>

Art

Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project

Saturday 10/24 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)

At Rhizome.org, Mark Tribe supports the creation and dissemination of forward-thinking contemporary art; and LACE is a fixture in LA's anything-goes... 

Susan Anderson: <em>High Glitz</em>, Edwina White: <em>In Rehearsal</em>

Art: Photography

Susan Anderson

Saturday 10/24 @ Kopeikin Gallery

Commercial photographer Susan Anderson crosses over to a fine-art career with her striking portraits from child beauty pageants. Shooting "tarted-up tots"... 

<em>Accomplice: Hollywood</em>

Get Social

Accomplice: Hollywood

Saturday 10/24 @ Various Hollywood locations

Co-produced by Neil Patrick Harris and Tom Salamon, Accomplice: Hollywood sends teams of intrepid folks along Hollywood Boulevard and its environs... 

Black Dahlia Theatre and Chalk Repertory Theatre presents <em>Stray</em>

Theatre

Stray

Saturday 10/24 @ Black Dahlia Theatre

The Black Dahlia Theatre and Chalk Repertory come together to present Stray, an award-winning contemporary dramatic play about international child adoption... 

Nova Jiang, Len Lye, Robert Rauschenberg, Jacob Tonski, Fischli & Weiss: <em>Cause & Effect</em>

Art

Cause & Effect

Saturday 10/24 @ LM Projects

The art in this show rocks and rolls — and gets set on fire, sets off chain reactions, and invites users... 

Haunted Hunt of Angelino Heights

Special Event

Haunted Hunt of Angelino Heights

Saturday 10/24 @ Los Angeles Conservancy

Explore LA's oldest (and most haunted) neighborhoods in the form of a scavenger hunt. Created by Out of the Box Events... 

<em>When Smoking Was Cool</em>

Art

When Smoking Was Cool

Saturday 10/24 @ Black Maria Gallery

As any fan of Mad Men can tell you, there used to be a lot more cigarette smoking going on, both... 

WTF?! Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

WTF?! Festival

Saturday 10/24 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre

Given that Tim Robbins founded the Actors Gang in response to a lack of opportunities for independent writers and actors to... 

<em>Heroes and Villains: The Battle for Good in India's Comics</em>

Art

The Battle for Good

Saturday 10/24 @ LACMA

Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:... 

Hello Kitty's 35th Anniversary: <em>Three Apples</em>

Art

Three Apples

Saturday 10/24 @ Royal/T

Hello Kitty is turning 35, and there's no better venue for her birthday party than Royal/T, Culver City's own art space,... 

<em>Art of the Movie Poster</em>

Art

Art of the Movie Poster

Saturday 10/24 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Whether the product of sheer creative license or shrewd marketing heads, the movie poster has inspired as much debate as the... 

David LaChapelle: <em>The Rape of Africa</em>

Art: Photography

David LaChapelle

Saturday 10/24 @ David DeSanctis Gallery

David LaChapelle is one of the most well-known and controversial photographers working today, who recently retired from a career in fashion... 

<em>Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins</em>

Theatre

Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins

Saturday 10/24 @ El Centro Theatre

Seventies hatemonger (and Harvey Milk's old nemesis) Anita Bryant is the anti-heroine in Brian Christopher Williams' gentle coming-of-age comedy. Directed by... 

<em>Seeing Things: Ghost Polaroids</em>

Art: Photography

Ghost Polaroids

Saturday 10/24 @ Drkrm

For 15 years, in an old house on a sleepy hillside outside LA, a phalanx of residents, researchers, and TV producers... 

Salon No. 2: Works 030-065

Art

Salon No. 2

Saturday 10/24 @ Marine

One silver lining to art-world downsizing is the resurgence of the private salon, made famous by the 19th and 20th century... 

<em>Point Break LIVE!</em>

Theatre

Point Break LIVE!

Saturday 10/24 @ Dragonfly

Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill... 

<em>Steeped in History: The Art of Tea</em>

Art

Steeped in History: The Art of Tea

Saturday 10/24 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

The second most consumed drink next to water, tea has also been frequent theme in art history. Guest curated by tea... 

<em>The Search for the Visceral Realists</em>

Art

The Search for the Visceral Realists

Saturday 10/24 @ Federal Art Project

Independent artist/curator York Chang has spent years researching the elusive history of an obscure, but by all accounts virulent, aesthetic movement... 

Kenny Scharf: <em>Barberadise</em>

Art

Kenny Scharf

Saturday 10/24 @ Honor Fraser

Kenny Scharf's latest one-man show, Barberadise, merges the past and future for a wistfully evocative, pop-culture infused present. The Hollywood native's... 

<em>Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art</em>

Special Event

Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art

Saturday 10/24 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art

Severed heads, skulls and daggers brimming with blood, and cemeteries littered with dismembered corpses may not readily invoke visions of spiritual... 

May Jong: <em>registered</em> and Echo Park Film Center: <em>This is the LA River</em>

Art

May Jong

Saturday 10/24 @ Happy

Los Feliz Art and Design District's own home and lifestyle shop, Happy also spotlights local and international artists in a series... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Saturday 10/24 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... 

<em>TOOLS</em>

Art

TOOLS

Saturday 10/24 @ Art Center College of Design

Although some of the objects in TOOLS may seem familiar, they are most definitely far from from ordinary. Jointly organized by... 

Faris McReynolds: <em>The Primitive Electric</em>

Art

Faris McReynolds

Saturday 10/24 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery

Los Angeles painter Faris McReynolds uses multiple points of view, a saturated color palette, and an exaggeratedly loose and heavy-handed interaction... 

Back to Basics: <em>MatterApp</em>

Art

MatterApp

Saturday 10/24 @ Materials & Applications

... 

<em>The Doctor Despite Himself</em>

Theatre

The Doctor Despite Himself

Saturday 10/24 @ Electric Lodge

Gulu Monteiro and Clara Bellar's Ipanema Theater Troupe's adaptation of 17th-century French playwright Molière's The Doctor Despite Himself regales with its... 

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Special Event

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Saturday 10/24 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale. Five years in the making and occupying an 8,000-square-foot gallery, Noah's Ark at... 

Funky Sole @ Echo

Music: DJ

Funky Sole @ Echo

Saturday 10/24 @ The Echo & Echoplex

L.A.'S LONGEST RUNNING DUSTY BEAT DRIVEN WORLD FUNK PARTY RELOCATES TO THE ECHO EVERY SATURDAY STARTING & IS STILL FREE FOR... 

<em>Inspired by the Ocean</em>

Art

Inspired by the Ocean

Saturday 10/24 @ Art Center College of Design

Illustration students from Art Center College of Design currently have their work on display at the Aquarium of the Pacific in... 

Partner Event: "Bleeding Through"

Theatre

Partner Event: "Bleeding Through"

Saturday 10/24 @ Los Angeles Conservancy

The Conservancy is proud to partner with theater company About...Productions on an exciting new event. Bleeding Through is a theatrical layering... 

Historic Downtown Walking Tour

City Gems: Guided Tour

Historic Downtown Walking Tour

Saturday 10/24 @ Los Angeles Conservancy

The Historic Downtown tour provides an overview of the historical and cultural landmarks of downtown Los Angeles. Covering a wide range... 

Art: Photography

Irving Penn: Small Trades

Saturday 10/24 @ The Getty Museum

Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere... 

Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36

Art

Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36

Saturday 10/24 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

This new exhibition explores the career of legendary film producer Irving Thalberg, Hollywood’s original “Boy Wonder,” and... 

Population: Portraits by Ray Turner

Art

Population: Portraits by Ray Turner

Saturday 10/24 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

A former painting instructor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, artist Ray Turner fashions a uniquely seductive and engaging... 

Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour

City Gems: Guided Tour

Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour

Saturday 10/24 @ Los Angeles Conservancy

The tour explores the social, cinematic, and architectural history of the largest National Register Historic Theatre Districts in the country. The... 

Boreyko Conducts Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky

Music: Classical

Boreyko Conducts Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky

Saturday 10/24 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

Noted for his adventurous programming, Andrey Boreyko is one of the more exciting and dynamic conductors to... 

Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes

Art

Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes

Saturday 10/24 @ The Getty Museum

This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights... 

The Chimaera of Arezzo

Art

The Chimaera of Arezzo

Saturday 10/24 @ The Getty Museum

The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,... 

Cinespace Saturdays

Music

Cinespace Saturdays

Saturday 10/24 @ Cinespace

Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's... 

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Art

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Saturday 10/24 @ The Getty Museum

Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty... 

Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart

Art

Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart

Saturday 10/24 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

A leader in the American Printmaking movement, Frances Gearhart’s work was embedded in the time and place of the Arts and... 

Art Deco Walking Tour

City Gems: Guided Tour

Art Deco Walking Tour

Saturday 10/24 @ Los Angeles Conservancy

The Art Deco tour is an in-depth look at the history, materials, and style of Art Deco architecture popular in Los... 

Range Life presents: Touring Movies Across America

Festival: Film

Range Life presents: Touring Movies Across America

Saturday 10/24 @ Downtown Independent Theater

Range Life Entertainment takes awesome movies, adds awesome parties, plus awesome filmmakers, and then tours them across America. Why? Because we... 

Gregory Maqoma/Vuyani Dance Theatre: <em>Beautiful Me</em>

Dance

Gregory Maqoma/Vuyani Dance Theatre: Beautiful Me

Saturday 10/24 @ REDCAT

A global fusion of rousing live music sets the pace for this solo tour de force by exquisite South African dancer...