QUICK TAKES - June 20, 2009

The Debbie Allen Dance Academy, a Culver City fixture for almost nine years, relocated Friday to the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza shopping center.

The academy will celebrate the new space with three days of open house events and performances June 25-27. As part of the June 26 festivities, one of the studio spaces will be dubbed the Berry Gordy Room after the Motown mogul. The dance performances will take place on the roof of the mall in a series of concerts appropriately titled “Up on the Roof”; a final concert in that series will take place July 3.

-- Diane Haithman