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GRANTING WISHES
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ULFILLING THE VISION of a collective in Santa Monica, Asian Jews create an evening of storytelling, a rare opportunity for their mixed-heritage community to share personal experiences with audiences. Across the county, a dance project begins to take shape for a performance inside and outside the historic HeraldExaminer building, a site-specific project
Deaf West Theatre performing (above) its Oedipus and (below opposite) with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Fidelio. (Above opposite) Heidi Duckler Dance, Everyday is Different.
exploring the tensions downtown. And a company of deaf creators plans to workshop a play in Beverly Hills that dramatizes the true story of a deaf Jewish woman who lived as an outcast in Nazi Germany. The early months of 2024 will be humming with these new works in various stages of development from The Braid in Santa Monica and Heidi Duckler Dance and Deaf West Theatre in Los Angeles.
JARED SAYEG. OPPOSITE FROM TOP:GINGER SOLE PHOTOGRAPHY AND DUSTIN DOWNING
As theaters, dance troupes, musicians and storytellers find their post-pandemic path, Los Angeles County delivers recovery support $30,000 at a time. / BY S H E R RY ST E R N /
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