Articles – Blue13 Dance Company

Decolonizing the Canon: Blue13 Dance Company Review

April 23, 2020

Sophie Bress for Ampersand LA Blue13 questions the lines that we use to divide dance into categories, the lines that denote what is diminishingly called a “fusion” or “cultural” dance form. The [...]

Each work had color signatures, a blended mix of music and movement styles distinctly connected to multiple lineages, and a unique personality.

Ancient and in the Instant: Blue13 Review

February 26, 2020

Mary Pat Cooney, LA Dance Chronicle

Last night’s boffo showcase by the 15-year-old Blue13 Dance Company brought great pleasure, including a former secret now in plain sight thanks to presentation by The Wallis: the presence of a real choreographer in our midst. Achinta McDaniel, American-born of Indian descent, along with her handsome dance troupe, displayed the right stuff in Friday’s fulsome dance program in Beverly Hills.

Review: Blue13 Hits Home Run at the Wallis

February 25, 2020

Review of Blue13 Dance Company World Premiere Feb 2020 by Debra Levine of Artsmeme. Read the full article here: https://artsmeme.com/2020/02/22/review-blue13-dance-company-hits-home-run-at-the-wallis/

Chicago Tribune on Blue13 at Disneyland

November 18, 2017

Read the Story in the Chicago Tribune on Disneyland’s Festival of Holidays featuring Blue13 Dance Company!

OC Register Article on Festival of Holidays Disneyland

November 11, 2017

Joseph Pimentel of the OC Register writes about Disney’s Festival of Holidays and Blue13’s contribution this year! Read about Disney’s Bollywood foray here.

NBC News covers Achinta S. McDaniel

August 17, 2016

Read the NBC News piece on Achinta S. McDaniel.

Vulture on McDaniel choreographed Strokes Music Video

July 5, 2016

Calling it a “Deliciously Silly Art Film,” Vulture gives “Broad Strokes” to the new 2016 Strokes Music Video, “Threat of Joy,” choreographed by Blue13’s [...]

LA Weekly Article on our Bollywood Bhangra Beats Classes

March 17, 2016

Thank you Maya Kachroo-Levine and LA Weekly for the great article on Achinta S. McDaniel’s Bollywood Bhangra Beats classes all over Los Angeles. Read online now!

Pasadena Weekly Cover Story on Blue13

September 17, 2015

“Movement for Change” Cover Story in Pasadena Weekly, on our upcoming “Bollywood Heights” fundraising event. Read it online now!

LA Weekly Best of 2014: Blue13

December 23, 2014

Blue13 marked as one of the 10 Best LA Dance Companies of 2014 by Ann Haskins of LA Weekly. Read on!