01.10.19

• ARTS •
PHOTO: Danny Liao
Arlene Tom and Wendy Lang
‘BETWEEN THE DARK
AND THE LIGHT’
SONGWRITER AND CINEMATOG-
RAPHER CHRISTOPHER LOCKETT
CELEBRATES NEW ALBUM AT MATT
DENNY’S TUESDAY
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Dealing with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease can be a daunting
challenge to face, since the neurological disease slowly
and relentlessly takes away all manner of basic motor skills
from those who suffer with it. Yet, for the past eight years, the
Pasadena-based Lineage Performing Arts Center has provided an
innovative and effective way to manage the disease by hosting
movement and memory classes that utilize rhythmic choreography,
acting scenes and even fencing to essentially rewire the
pathways that their brains use.
This Saturday, the Dance for Joy class participants will show
off their skills in “The Lineage Follies,” a variety performance
showcase that also will feature some top neurologists discussing
the condition and how each performance handles it. According to
student Amy Carlson, who has spent the past three years in the
Dance for Joy program and helped organize the “Follies,” those
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TALES OF TERROR
WICKED LIT HOSTS READING EVENT
AT DARK DELICACIES HORROR
BOOKSTORE SUNDAY
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DANCE
FOR
JOY
LINEAGE PERFORMING
ARTS CENTER
SPOTLIGHTS TALENTS
OF THOSE WITH
PARKINSON’S
DISEASE SATURDAY
BY CARL KOZLOWSKI
insights can provide a greater sense of understanding for participants
and audience members alike.
“They’re going to watch people perform routines based on what
they do in classes every week, and then at the end of the night they
will talk about what they saw,” says Carlson. “These are some of
the top neurologists in the world, and everyone’s going to get feedback
about why what they’re doing is good. It affects not just the
people performing, but people in the audience who are making the
connection between the effort people are putting in and what the
doctors want to see. It’s very rare to get that kind of feedback.”
Among the physicians attending are Dr. Michele Pagliati,
head of the movement disorder clinic at Cedars Sinai; Dr. Giselle
Petzinger, a USC neurologist who also works with the Cedars Sinai
Medical Group; and Dr. Michael Jakowec, a neurology professor
and researcher at USC. Carlson notes that she met the experts by
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STEPPING ‘UP’
COMIC SUPERSTAR KEVIN HART
TAKES A DRAMATIC SWING WITH
BRYAN CRANSTON IN ‘THE UPSIDE’
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GET YOUR OWN...
BY JOHN SOLLENBERGER
HIT FILM
Free films screen
at 1 p.m. on
select Fridays
at the Pasadena
Senior Center,
85 E. Holly
St., Pasadena.
Friday’s film
is “The Great
Gatsby” (1974).
Call (626) 795-
4331 or visit pasadenaseniorcenter.org.
ROYAL EXPERIENCE
Rose Queen Louise
Deser Siskel
and her court
visit from 1:30 to
3:30 p.m. at the
Pasadena Public
Library’s Hastings
Branch, 3325 E.
Orange Grove
Blvd., Pasadena,
sharing their favorite
princess stories and recent experiences with the
tournament from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Kids
are invited to come to the event dressed as queens,
kings and princesses. Call (626) 744-7262 or visit
pasadenapubliclibrary.net.
AFTERNOON CONCERT
A Tuesday Musicale
of Pasadena
Second Sunday
concert features
sopranos Coril
Prochnow and
Samantha Aiko
Kim, baritone Eric
Castro and Music
Director Mary
Lou Basaraba
performing a variety of arias, including works from
“West Side Story,” starting at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at
Pasadena Public Library’s Central Branch, 285 E.
Walnut St., Pasadena. Free. Call (626) 797-1994 or
visit tuesdaymusicaleofpasadena.blogspot.com.
GRIM HISTORY
In a Billington
Lecture, Benjamin
Madley,
associate professor
of history at
UCLA, discusses
“An American
Genocide: The
United States
and the California
Indian Catastrophe,
1846-1873” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at
the Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino.
Free; no reservations required. Call (626) 405-
2100 or visit huntington.org.
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