L. A. Dance Project presents two world premieres and brings live performance back to its Los Angeles home with DRIVE-IN DANCES, a monthlong outdoor program. Audience members drive up and park in LADP’s lot, staying in their cars to view the performances.
SOLO AT DUSK—choreographed by Bobbi Jene Smith in collaboration with Or Schraiber and the dancers—premieres this week, followed in mid-September by THE BETWEENS, a work by Jermaine Spivey and Spenser Theberge in collaboration with the dancers.
See links below for details.
L. A. DANCE PROJECT—DRIVE-IN DANCES
Thursday through Saturday, September 10–12, September 24–26, and October 10, at 7:30 pm.
Sunday, September 13, September 27, and October 11, at 6 pm.
Thursday through Saturday, September 17–19, October 1–3, and October 8–9, at 7:30 pm.
Sunday, September 20 and October 4, at 6 pm.
LADP
2245 East Washington Boulevard, downtown Los Angeles.
L. A. Dance Project, Drive-In Dances rehearsal photographs—from top—by Josh S. Rose (1), Benjamin Millepied (3), Rose (2), and Lorrin Brubaker (3). Images courtesy and © the photographers, the dancers, and LADP.
Twelve dancers from the ensemble—Doug Baum, Anthony Lee Bryant, Aaron Carr, David Adrian Freeland Jr., Mario Gonzalez, Madison Hicks, Daisy Jacobson, Nathan B. Makolandra, Rachelle Rafailedes, Gianna Reisen, Janie Taylor, Patricia Zhou—will be joined by violinist Etienne Gara, who will play Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Partita for Violin No. 2 in D Minor” as well as sections from Mystery Sonatas and The National Anthems by David Lang.
