Katerina Pantelides

Latest stories

• Star-crossed lovers face division by Berlin Wall

  May 28, 2008 at 12:44 a.m.

  Two households, both alike in dignity, in punk-rock Berlin, where we lay our scene, Shakespeare’s classic tale of star-crossed lovers leaves courtly Verona to inhabit gritty 1980s Germany.

• Students to dance across cultural boundaries

  April 29, 2008 at midnight

  To bridge the 7,000 mile gap between Israel and Los Angeles, the Center for Intercultural Performance invited four of the most innovative names in Israeli contemporary dance to come teach at UCLA.

• Write or wrong?

  April 22, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

  For the first time in its 13-year history, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books will focus on the writing process.

• Not the same old song and dance

  April 16, 2008 at 1:50 a.m.

  Five minutes may not seem like a significant performance, but for undergraduate world arts and cultures students, that time is coveted.

• Book Review: “How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read”

  March 5, 2008 at midnight

  From its polemical title, Pierre Bayard’s “How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read” promises to be a face-saving manual for those of us too lazy to read the classics. Each chapter muses upon different social situations (such as encounters with professors) where one has to talk about books that one has not read.

• Intimate flamenco through ‘Signs and Wonders’

  Feb. 6, 2008 at 12:28 a.m.

  An intimate conversation between one dancer and 1,833 audience members may seem impossible. But Eva Yerbabuena, with her swishing skirts and syncopations, promises just this.

• Breaking the TV-movie mold

  Dec. 10, 2007 at 12:02 a.m.

  “High School Musical” is jumping off television screens and dancing onto the stage.