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L.A. DANCE PROJECT — LIVE FROM 2245

After a sold out opening weekend, L.A. Dance Project continues to welcome audiences to its new home for LIVE FROM 2245, a series of performances in downtown Los Angeles.

LIVE FROM 2245 features two rotating programs that highlight the company’s ongoing mission to promote the work of emerging and established choreographers, and to introduce new audiences to iconic modern works,” and PROGRAM A features the local premiere of L.A. Dance Project founder and director Benjamin Millepied’s Bach Studies (Part 1).*
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PROGRAM A—
Second Quartet by Noé Soulier and Bach Studies (Part 1)
Wednesday and Thursday, May 23 and 24.
Saturday, May 26; Tuesday, May 29; and Friday, June 1.
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PROGRAM B—
Martha Graham Duets
Hearts & Arrows and On the Other Side by Millepied.
Tuesday, May 22; Friday, May 25.
Wednesday and Thursday, May 30 and 31.
Saturday, June 2.
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L.A. Dance Project Studios
2245 East Washington Boulevard, downtown Los Angeles.
From top: David Adrian Freeland, Jr., in rehearsal; Benjamin Millepied; the company in rehearsal (2). All photographs courtesy of L.A. Dance Project.

L.A. DANCE PROJECT — MILLEPIED PREMIERES

The L.A. Dance Project–company-in-residence at The Wallis for 2017-2018—is tripling down for its fall season, with three Los Angeles premieres of work by choreographer and artistic director Benjamin MillepiedIN SILENCE WE SPEAK and ORPHEUS HIGHWAY, both from 2017, and CLOSER, a 2006 piece with music by Philip Glass.

In addition, the company will dance the U.S. premiere Noé Soulier’s SECOND QUARTET, which features music by the choreographer and Flemish DJ Tom De Cock.

 

L.A. DANCE PROJECT, Thursday through Saturday, November 2–4, at 7:30 pm.

THE WALLIS, 9390 Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills.

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Current company members include Aaron Carr, David Adrian Freeland, Jr.Kaitlyn GillilandAxel Ibot, Daisy Jacobson, Nathan Makolandra, Francisco MungambaRachelle Rafailedes, Janie Taylor, Miranda Wattier, and Patricia Zhou.

L.A. Dance Project, in performance at The Wallis, November 2, 2017. From top:

Second Quartet, Nathan Makolandra and Rachelle Rafailedes; In Silence We Speak, Rafailedes (left) and Janie TaylorSecond Quartet, from left, David Adrian Freeland Jr., Makolandra, and Aaron Carr. Performance photographs by Lawrence K. Ho.

Benjamin Millepied. Photograph by Morgan Lugo. Image credit: The Wallis.

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