A "Now Renting" sign on an apartment building on Market Street in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 2020. In California, AB 2747 now requires landlords to give tenants the option to share on-time rent payments with credit bureaus.
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One of the many economic benefits of owning your own home, in addition to boosting your family’s wealth and long-term stability, is building credit through mortgage payments. Now, a recently enacted California law also offers renters a way to use their rent payments to do the same thing — as long as they pay on time.
More details: With the passage of Assembly Bill 2747, tenants can ask their landlord to share rent payments made on time — however, their lease defines that timeframe — to at least one credit bureau. Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, authored AB 2747 to give tenants an additional tool to boost their credit score, said Nate Allbee, Haney’s communications director.
What if I'm a tenant on an existing lease? If you’re a tenant on an existing lease, according to the law, your landlord should have spoken to you by now about this option — specifically, at least once between the time span of Jan. 1 and April 1. If your landlord didn’t do this, the law doesn’t specify any penalties for landlords that failed to have these conversations during that time period — but as a tenant, you can still bring them up now.
Read on... for tips if you're a tenant and things to know like who is exempt from this new law.
As buying a home becomes more expensive each year, families in California are renting for longer periods of time. According to the most recently available data, more than 40% of Californians are renters — a higher proportion than any other state in the country except New York.
One of the many economic benefits of owning your own home, in addition to boosting your family’s wealth and long-term stability, is building credit through mortgage payments. Now, a recently enacted California law also offers renters a way to use their rent payments to do the same thing — as long as they pay on time.
With the passage of Assembly Bill 2747, tenants can ask their landlord to share rent payments made on time — however, their lease defines that timeframe — to at least one credit bureau. Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, authored AB 2747 to give tenants an additional tool to boost their credit score, said Nate Allbee, Haney’s communications director.
“People take paying rent seriously,” Allbee said. “What we’re hoping is that people who are making this financial commitment and doing the right thing, see their credit increase.”
So, how does sharing your rent payments with credit bureaus work if you choose to take advantage of this new law? Keep reading to learn what’s expected of landlords and what tenants should know before they make a decision about sharing this information.
How does reporting rent payments to credit bureaus work?
In the United States, three major credit bureaus — Equifax, TransUnion and Experian — collect data on individual consumers who take out loans or use credit cards. These companies then use that information to calculate a person’s credit score: a number that impacts their ability to take out a major loan, like a mortgage, or even to secure their next apartment.
Each credit bureau has different ways of calculating somebody’s credit score and may prioritize payments for certain loans — like a mortgage or car payment — more than others. But generally, the better you are at paying back your loans and other financial obligations on time, the easier it will be for you to increase your credit score and have access to more credit — and larger loans — in the future.
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Landlords can already share late rent payments with credit bureaus, which ends up hurting tenants’ credit scores. However, under AB 2747, a tenant can choose for at least one of these credit bureaus to be notified when they make an on-time rent payment. However, it’s the responsibility of the landlord — not the tenant — to make sure that credit bureaus receive this information.
As of April 1, the law said California landlords must offer their tenants the option to share on-time payments with credit bureaus at the time of signing the lease. And even if the tenant declines at the time, the landlord is expected to then offer this option again at least once a year.
If you’re a tenant on an existing lease, according to the law, your landlord should have spoken to you by now about this option — specifically, at least once between the time span of Jan. 1 and April 1.
If your landlord didn’t do this, the law doesn’t specify any penalties for landlords that failed to have these conversations during that time period — but as a tenant, you can still bring them up now.
“We want people to feel empowered and strong — the law is on your side here,” said Allbee, adding that landlords have “a responsibility to be updated with the laws of the state of California.”
Tenants: Before you make a decision…
The goal behind AB 2747 is to help tenants improve their credit scores. But just how a credit score is calculated is pretty complicated — and can change depending on the credit bureau you’re looking at.
“There are so many different factors that go into your credit score,” said Liu, including “consistency of payments and history of tradelines.”
If you’re concerned about your ability to keep up these consistent, on-time payments over a longer period of time, you should factor this in before making a decision regarding AB 2747, said Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director for the tenants rights group Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE).
“Are you ready to make a long-term commitment to not only paying on time, but also paying for this reporting?” she said. Simon-Weisberg has joined other housing advocates in criticizing AB 2747 for having tenants themselves cover the costs of sharing payment information with credit bureaus.
“Tenants shouldn’t have to pay for credit reporting, because you don’t pay your credit card company to do the same,” she said.
It’s still unclear how credit bureaus will process on-time rent payment data from tenants, she said. But she urged those who do decide to move forward with sharing their information to take the long view.
“Make a long-term commitment in doing it,” she said. “Because if you’re only reporting positive payments, and then there’s nothing, [credit bureaus] are going to assume that it’s negative.”
Who is exempt from this new law?
Individual landlords who own a property with 15 or fewer units are excluded from this new requirement.
But if your landlord owns 15 or less units as either a corporation, an LLC or real estate investment trust — rather than as an individual — they will have to offer tenants the option to share on-time payments with credit bureaus.
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So, to give real-world examples, if you’re renting a room at a friend or family member’s house and that’s the only home they own, this law does not apply to your situation. However, if your landlord is a corporation that owns three different apartment buildings throughout the city, they must follow AB 2747.
What should tenants and landlords know about complying with AB 2747?
If you're a tenant...
If you decide that you do want your landlord to share your on-time rent payments to a credit bureau, you are expected to pay your landlord an additional $10 each time you want your information shared.
This fee is meant to cover the costs for the landlord to pass this information on to a credit bureau, and is intended to cover the costs of their time and any fees charged by the company itself. However, the fee cannot be greater than $10 each month.
The tenant gets to choose when they want their on-time rent payments shared, and how frequently. For example, even if you pay your rent on time every month, you could tell your landlord to report only your payments during the first six months of the year — and you’d only have to pay your landlord the $10 fee for those six months.
Your landlord also cannot penalize you for not paying the $10 fee, and they can’t take it from your deposit or add it to your rent payment. Conversely, if a tenant fails to pay the $10 fee, the landlord is not obligated to report their payment information that month — even if it’s on time.
What if you want to stop having your landlord share your rent payments with credit bureaus? You can opt out at any time, but the law requires you to wait at least six months before you request to have your on-time payments shared once again.
If you’re a landlord …
If your tenant wants you to report their on-time payments to a credit bureau, you’ll have to provide them with a contract that specifies:
Which credit bureau you’ll be sharing their information with
The monthly fee you’ll charge them for doing so (which cannot exceed $10)
Instructions on how to opt out in the future.
The California Apartment Association (CAA) offers its members sample versions of these contracts for both new tenants and existing tenants.
As for passing on your tenants’ information to a credit bureau, each credit bureau has different rules on submitting this type of data. Landlords can also use a paid platform like Piñata, which helps landlords comply with this part of the law.
The Academy Awards were last night in Hollywood, hosted by Conan O'Brien. The stars walked the red carpet in a wide range of styles.
Keep reading... to check out the gowns, suits and jewels chosen by stars.
The Academy Awards were Sunday night in Hollywood, hosted by Conan O'Brien.
One Battle After Another took home best picture, in addition to awards for Paul Thomas Anderson for best director and best adapted screenplay. Sinners star Michael B. Jordan won best actor, and Hamnet's Jessie Buckley won best actress.
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Last night's Oscars ceremony was expected to be a showdown between the vampires and the revolutionaries, between Sinners and One Battle After Another.
And the Oscars went to... In the end, One Battle After Another won both best picture and best director, but it was a very good night for Sinners, too, including an original screenplay award for writer and director Ryan Coogler.
Keep reading... for more on some of the evening's most notable moments.
As Sunday's Oscars ceremony approached, it seemed to be shaping up to be a showdown between the vampires and the revolutionaries, between Sinners and One Battle After Another. In the end, One Battle After Another won both best picture and best director, but it was a very good night for Sinners, too, including an original screenplay award for writer and director Ryan Coogler.
There were some surprises over the course of the evening, including a rare tie in the live action short category, a remembrance of Robert Redford that included Barbra Streisand singing a bit of "The Way We Were," and Jimmy Kimmel stepping in just long enough to make some pointed comments about media censorship. But let's go over some of the major takeaways.
A celebrated director gets his Oscar.
Paul Thomas Anderson won best director for One Battle After Another after three previous nominations for There Will Be Blood, Phantom Thread and Licorice Pizza. Anderson had already won several major Oscar precursor awards this year, including top directing prizes at the BAFTAs and from the Directors Guild of America, so he was the odds-on favorite. The other nominees in the category were relative newcomers: Ryan Coogler, Josh Safdie and Joachim Trier were all first-time directing nominees; Chloé Zhao was nominated (and won) for Nomadland at the ceremony in 2021.
Michael B. Jordan won a rare acting award for a genre movie.
Michael B. Jordan won best actor for his portrayal of twin brothers in "Sinners."
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Sinners is a drama, but it's also very much a genre film. It's horror. It's vampires. Those are not the kinds of films that most often win Oscars for actors. But Jordan, with his first nomination, won over performers from much more traditionally awards-friendly films. Three of those actors (Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothée Chalamet and Ethan Hawke) already had multiple acting nominations before this year.
The last actor to win for a genre film might have been Joaquin Phoenix for Joker, since that was technically a comic-book movie, but that one did away with most of its genre trappings and pressed itself into a dramatic mold, which Sinners emphatically does not. Before that, while definitions of genre aren't bright lines, you might have to go all the way back to ... Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, if you consider that horror? Maybe even further? At any rate, it's a great win for an actor who has been beloved at least since The Wire almost 25 years ago, who's been doing rich and varied work ever since. His victory is also a win for his lengthy and fruitful collaboration with Ryan Coogler in Sinners, but also in Fruitvale Station, Creed and Black Panther.
Amy Madigan, the award-winning straight-up monster.
Amy Madigan won best supporting actress for her performance in "Weapons."
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(We don't mean Amy Madigan the person, of course.) Madigan won best supporting actress for her deeply unsettling and entirely singular performance as Aunt Gladys in Weapons, which is even more fully a horror movie than Sinners. While the nominated cast members from Sinners — Jordan, Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku — play regular people who are swept into an unreal situation, Madigan is playing, essentially, the boogeyman (boogeywoman?). It's thrilling to see the Academy recognize a performance that is as weird and funny and scary as just the last few minutes of what Madigan does in Zach Cregger's terrifying story of a town that sees a whole classroom full of its children disappear.
The casting Oscar makes its debut.
Cassandra Kulukundis won the Academy's first award for achievement in casting for her work on "One Battle After Another".
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This was the first year that there was an Oscar for casting, which is very much overdue — there have been casting Emmys for ages. It was easy to argue for any of the nominated casting directors. Marty Supreme and The Secret Agent both deploy nontraditional actors in some roles, Sinners and One Battle both use a wide variety of well-known and well-regarded stars in interesting ways, and Hamnet places most of the weight of an enormously heavy story on the shoulders of just a couple of performers, including best actress winner Jessie Buckley.
Cassandra Kulukundis, who won for One Battle After Another, not only has been working with Paul Thomas Anderson for ages, but she also worked on casting (get this) for both The Brutalist and Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle. But all the nominees have tremendous resumes. Francine Maisler, who was nominated for Sinners, was the credited casting director for Arrival, Creed, Baby Driver, Widows, and Challengers! Honestly, the biggest problem in the category was that everybody couldn't win.
A first in the cinematography category.
Autumn Durald Arkapaw accepts the award for best cinematography for "Sinners."
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Autumn Durald Arkapaw, who won best cinematography for her work on Sinners, was only the fourth woman, and the first woman of color, to be nominated in the category. She becomes the first woman to win. Sinners is a sumptuously, inventively, beautifully shot film, and the cinematography is one of the core crafts that makes it so effective.
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Last spring, Dr. Alberto Román was appointed chancellor of the L.A. Community College District. Since then, he's had to lead LACCD's response to a federal government that's taken an aggressive stance toward undocumented immigrants, many of whom are enrolled in community colleges.
How immigration detentions are affecting students: AccordingtoRomán, some students have become the head of their households overnight, after having their parents detained and deported. Alouette Cervantes-Salazar, who runs East L.A. College’s Dream Resource Center, also said “quite a bit” of students have moved to take coursework online.
Support for students in mixed-status families: The district’s Dream Resource Centers are hustling to provide legal support, temporary housing options, additional mental health services and food vouchers for affected students.
When Alberto Román was a boy growing up in the Mexican state of Durango, his father was often far from home. Most times, he’d be gone for months.
Román’s father, Javier, had a third-grade education. And when work was scarce in Mexico, he’d venture north to the United Sates and take whatever job he could find.
Javier washed cars. He worked in factories. He picked crops. He built houses.
“He was a guy you would find at Home Depot,” Román told LAist. “He did whatever it took to put food on the table and provide [his family] with shelter.”
Román missed his father terribly, and he relished the time alone with him. When his father would return to Mexico, they'd hike to a majestic statue of the revolutionary Pancho Villa, where Román and his father could also look out at their city.
Román did not know it then but, soon, that view would become a memory. When he was eight, his father returned; but, this time, Javier took his son, his daughter, and his wife with him back to the U.S. The family settled in Rialto, in California's Inland Empire. Suddenly, Román had a new home and new challenges to contend with.
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The move to Rialto unfurled a series of labels and experiences. Román became undocumented; an “English language learner”; a teenage father; a parenting student. With time, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen and, then, a first-generation college graduate who would one day earn a doctorate.
Today, Román serves as chancellor of the Los Angeles Community College District, which includes nine campuses and more than 200,000 students.
A lot of these students are parents like he was, Román said, and the vast majority of them have to work to help put themselves through school.
And many of them are also immigrants.
Leading LACCD's response to immigration policy
Román was appointed chancellor last May. Soon after, the Trump administration unleashed its militarized mass deportation effort, which included raids and a show of force throughout L.A. County.
One of the chancellor’s responsibilities is managing LACCD’s response to the Trump administration.
In conversation with LAist, Román referred to the ongoing raids and immigration detentions as “inhumane.” He also described the experience of a student whose father didn’t come home one night. After being detained by immigration agents, Román said, the student’s family “didn't know where he was for two months.”
The student was 20 years old when her father was taken. Overnight, she became the head of her household. Now, on top of fulfilling her responsibilities at school, she has to figure out how to keep herself and her younger siblings housed and fed.
To support students in mixed-status families, the district’s Dream Resource Centers provide them with legal support, temporary housing options, additional mental health services and food vouchers.
Alouette Cervantes-Salazar coordinates East Los Angeles College’s Dream Resource Center, which provides support and services for undocumented students; DACA and TPS recipients; and students in mixed-status families.
According to Cervantes-Salazar, the Trump administration’s deportation effort has transformed campus life. When the raids began last summer, she said, “quite a bit” of students who used to take classes in person moved to complete the semester online.
For some, Cervantes-Salazar added, online coursework has become preferable because it enables students to better juggle school and work. For others, the fear of getting to and from campus amid roving immigration patrols has become a decisive factor.
Whether the Dream Resource Centers' support will be enough to meet student needs remains to be seen, but Román takes their stories to heart.
“These are the stories of our community,” he said. “These are the stories of our students. These are the stories of their parents. And they are our stories, because they come to us for an education.”
From 'English language learner' to college graduate
Román’s story in the U.S. began in the 1980s. After moving to California, it took Román about two years to learn enough English to communicate with his classmates. Until then, his time in school was lonely.
Back then, dual language immersion programs— an educational model that teaches students in English and another language (such as Spanish or Mandarin) to achieve biliteracy — were rare in the U.S. At Román’s elementary school, he said, they were nonexistent.
To help him learn English, Román’s educators placed him in a separate room for about three hours a day. He was given a stack of books. His job was to put on headphones, listen to audio recordings of the texts and do his best to follow along.
When Román tried speaking English, some students made fun of his accent. A bilingual child who struggled with Spanish was tasked with serving as his interpreter.
Román said he cried to his parents. “I'm not happy here,” he told them. "Let's go back.”
His parents made it clear that returning to Mexico was not an option. They’d been poor and had limited schooling, and they wanted something different for their children. Though neither of Román’s parents got to finish high school, he said, they were determined to send their children to college.
Román’s older sister graduated at the top of her class and went on to UCLA. Román aimed to follow in her footsteps.
But, when he was a high school senior, Román learned his girlfriend was pregnant. He was 17, and he wasn’t sure how fatherhood would square with pursuing higher education.
When Román told his parents there was a baby on the way, they remained steadfast. "Now you have all the more reason to go to college," his father told him. That fall, Román enrolled at UC Riverside.
To help provide for his son, Román got a job at Payless ShoeSource, where he worked up to 40 hours a week. When possible, Román stacked his classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, to keep the rest of the week open for work.
“It was tough,” Román said. “I was getting home at 10, 10:30 at night, trying to read, trying to do essays, trying to be a father.”
“In moments of weakness,” he added, he contemplated quitting school. But, like his parents, Román wanted a better life for his son.
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Román graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1999. When he crossed the stage at his commencement ceremony, his child, his parents and his sister beamed from the audience.
Today, Román connects his lived experience to that of students at the district, 70% of whom study part-time. “That’s because they're working, because they have families,” he said.
Last spring, Román watched thousands of new graduates embrace their loved ones after receiving their diplomas at a commencement ceremony at the Greek Theatre.
“When I see my students on stage waving their degrees — despite all the challenges they face — that award is so much more meaningful,” he said. “I know what they went through.”
Plus, see world-famous actors perform stories about the ocean, listen to French synth-pop, check out photos from the border and more of the best things to do this week.
Highlights:
Show Timothée Chalamet who’s boss and go to the ballet. We have a great dance community in L.A., and this special performance from American Contemporary Ballet of two classic George Balanchine pieces displays the extraordinary talent required for ballet and the art form's lasting impact.
Actors and musicians take to the Saban stage to present stories and songs from the sea inThe Ocean: Our Liquid Universe. This one kicks off with Sharon Stone and Lily Tomlin, and features performances from Dave Bayley of Glass Animals, Bruce Vilanch, Bellamy Young (Scandal) and many more sharing moving works about the importance of our oceans, just ahead of L.A. Climate Week. Plus, LAist readers can use the code OCEANLOVER for 10% off VIP tickets.
Did you know there’s donation-based yoga, outside among the friendly spirits of Hollywood Forever Cemetery, several times a week? Start your day off with Kundalini, Vinyasa flow or meditation with some of L.A.’s top teachers. Check the schedule and bring your mat, towel, water and, of course, sunscreen.
Back in 2017, I took a road trip to Tecate, Mexico to see JR’s enormous installation of a towering image of a child peering over the Mexican border across to the same, dusty southern California landscape on the other side. It was a powerful message about humanity, immigration, and social justice. He brings that photo and many more to a new solo show, JR: Horizons, on view now at Perrotin.
Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating the end of Ramadan this week! If doughnuts are part of your tradition, find out why, as LAist’s Yusra Farzan digs into the history of this Eid specialty.
Licorice Pizza has your music picks; on Monday, you can celebrate the best in pop at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Dolby Theatre, while on Tuesday, R&B singer Son Little plays the Troubadour. Tuesday and Wednesday, New Orleans songstress Madeleine Peyroux presents WE ARE AMERICA: Songs That Give Us Hope at the Blue Note. Also on Wednesday, shoegaze stars Nothing are at the Belasco, and a whole bunch of bold-faced names will be at “Toby Gad & Friends” at the Hotel Café. On Thursday, hip-hop legend Talib Kweli plays the Blue Note, Australian dance artist 1tbsp plays the Fonda, Irish indie-pop duo 49th & Main play the El Rey Theatre and Canadian folksters The Barr Brothers play their first of two nights at the Troubadour with support from Benjamin Lazar Davis.
Through Saturday, April 25 Perrotin 5040 W. Pico Blvd., Mid-City COST: FREE; MORE INFO
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Back in 2017, I took a road trip to Tecate, Mexico to see French photo artist JR’s enormous installation — a towering image of a child peering over the Mexican border across to the same, dusty Southern California landscape on the other side. It was a powerful message about humanity, immigration and social justice. He brings that photo and many more to a new solo show, Horizons, on view now at Perrotin.
WORDTheatre's The Ocean: Our Liquid Universe
Thursday, March 19, 7:30 p.m. Saban Theatre 8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills COST: FROM $30; MORE INFO
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If you haven’t been to a WORDTheatre event, you’re in for a treat, as actors and musicians take to the Saban stage to present stories and songs from the sea. Producer Cedering Fox pairs performers with stories that speak to them, and brings short pieces to life in unique ways. This one kicks off with Sharon Stone and Lily Tomlin, and features performances from Dave Bayley of Glass Animals, Bruce Vilanch, Bellamy Young (Scandal) and many more who will share moving works about the importance of our oceans ahead of L.A. Climate Week. Plus, Best Things to Do readers can use the code LAist for 15% off all tickets.
Yoga at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Ongoing 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood COST: DONATION; MORE INFO
Did you know there’s donation-based yoga, outside among the friendly spirits of Hollywood Forever Cemetery, several times a week? Start your day off with Kundalini, Vinyasa flow, or meditation with some of L.A.’s top teachers. Check the schedule and bring your mat, towel, water and, of course, sunscreen.
Richard Hell
Thursday, March 19, 7 p.m. Beyond Baroque 681 Venice Blvd., Venice COST: FREE, SOLD OUT BUT MAY BE AVAILABLE ONSITE DAY-OF; MORE INFO
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Punk icon Richard Hell heads to (where else) Venice to read from his novel, Godlike. A story about love between two young poets — a 27-year-old man and a teenage boy — is “based on Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine’s notorious affair, but set in the epochal downtown poetry scene of filthy 1970s New York.” Take yourself back to a grittier (and simpler) time. The event is sold out, but tickets may be available in person on the day of the reading.
Vendredi Sur Mer
Wednesday, March 18, 8 p.m. The Roxy 9009 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood COST: $35.25; MORE INFO
I’ve been using French music and ChatGPT to practice my French language skills lately, so I’m pretty into Swiss songstress Vendredi Sur Mer. She brings her dreamy French synth-pop that evokes time in the Swiss Alps to the Roxy; her latest album, Malabar Princess, is out now.
St. Patrick’s Day Parking Lot Party
Tuesday, March 17, 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. Cat & Fiddle 742 Highland Ave., West Hollywood COST: FREE, DRINK AND FOOD SPECIALS; MORE INFO
Corned beef and cabbage, Guinness, whiskey specials and a burlesque show are all on tap at the annual St. Patrick’s Day party at the Cat & Fiddle pub. Raise a glass and say sláinte to another year of Irish luck.
ACB presents Blanchine: Twin Masterpieces
Through Friday, March 27 Bank of America Plaza 333 S. Hope Street, Downtown L.A. COST: STARTING AT $65; MORE INFO
Show Timothée Chalamet who’s boss and go to the ballet. We have a great dance community in L.A., and this special performance from American Contemporary Ballet of two classic George Balanchine pieces — La Source (presented for the first time in Los Angeles in more than 40 years) and Concerto Barocco — displays the extraordinary talent required for ballet and the art form's lasting impact.
