(untitled) (2018/19)

Choreographer: Tino Sehgal

The piece, commissioned by L.A.Dance Project Artistic Director Benjamin Millepied, builds on the collaborative relationship that has evolved between the two since 2016, when Millepied first commissioned Sehgal to create a piece for The Paris Opera Ballet during his tenure as Director of Dance. It merges elements of dances from various cultural traditions into a continuous, ongoing form. 

Sehgal’s work challenges the traditional relationship between art and audience. His “constructed situations” that are usually presented in exhibitions, incorporate players interacting with each other, or with audience members, in meticulously orchestrated scenarios that focus on creating moments and memories during fleeting encounters, rather than material objects.

Premiere
October 31st, 2019 at the Theatre Des Champs-Élysées in Paris. 

Length
2 minutes per dancer

(untitled) (2018/19)

5 Live Calibrations

Choreographer: Madeline Hollander 

5 Live Calibrations presents a new ballet by Madeline Hollander composed of five movements. Each segment is inspired by physical techniques for calibration, re-orientation, geo-location, and balance, and feature choreographic sequences that incorporate elements of chance and inevitable improvisation. The conditions guiding this work guarantee that each performance be entirely unique, the choreography will set in motion an infinite number of possible outcomes that remain unknown to both the dancers and the audience until they unfold in real time. 

Premiere
October 31st, 2019 at the Theatre Des Champs-Élysées in Paris.

Lighting Design
François-Pierre Couture

Costume Design
Anna-Sophie Berger, constructed by Jessica Owen

Music
Original score by Celia Hollander

 Length
21 minutes

5 Live Calibrations

Adagio in B Minor

Premiere
September 26th, 2019 for the L.A. Dance Project Fall Festival at L.A. Dance Project Performing Space.

Choreography
Janie Taylor

Lighting Design
Benjamin Millepied and François-Pierre Couture

Costume Design
Cos & Janie Taylor

Length
7 minutes

Music
Adagio in B Minor, K.540 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Andeás Schiff)

With grateful thanks to Flavia and Barden Gale

Adagio in B Minor

Attitude du Cage

Choreography: Julie Eichten & Nathan Makolandra

Premiere: 2012

Attitude du Cage

Be Here Now

Premiere
October 13th, 2022 at the Theatre du Chatelet presented by the Theatre de la Ville, Paris

Choreography
Benjamin Millepied

Music
Entr’acte by Caroline Shaw
Seven Pillars by Andy Akiho: Pillar I, Amethyst, Pillar II, IlI, V, VI,

Costume Design
Benjamin Millepied

Set Design
Barbara Kruger

Lighting Design
Michael Rathbun

Length
60 minutes

10 Dancers

Be Here Now

Chapter Song

Choreographer: Kyle Abraham

 Created in close collaboration with the LADP Company, Chapter Song is a series of constantly shifting vignettes that explore the textures and sensations of transition. Set to an eclectic playlist, the sonic experience of Chapter Song aims to disrupt expectations and juxtapose the serious with the comedic – the personal with the political. This dynamic work moves quickly, much like the changing of the channels, allowing for unexpected connections and discovery.

Premiere
March 30th, 2018 at TITAS Presents, Dallas

Scenic and Lighting Design
Dan Scully 

Costume Design
Kyle Abraham

Music
Einstein On The Beach: Knee 1 by Philip Glass (Michael Riesman)
Glass: Einstein On The Beach

D.N.A. by Kendrick Lamar
DAMN.

Papa Can You Hear Me? by Barbara Streisand
Yentl

So Fresh, So Clean by Outkast
Big Boi & Dre Present, Outkast

Left Unsaid by Pariah
IOTDXI

The Shooting by Nils Frahm
Music for the Motion Picture Victoria

Voice Over
Performed by Carrie Mae Weems
Text by Kyle Abraham
Edited by Sam Crawford

Length
29 Minutes

Chapter Song was commissioned by LADP with funding provided by the Elaine P. Wynn and Family Foundation and co-commissioning support provided by TITAS Presents.

Chapter Song

Closer

Choreographer: Benjamin Millepied

Created in 2006, Closer is an intensely sensuous pas de deux set to Philip Glass’ undulant and lyrical “Mad Rush.” Benjamin Millepied’s exquisitely fluid, and at moments melancholic, choreography deftly reels the audience into the couple’s voluptuous connection. The piece’s inventive partnering is upstaged only by the riveting magnetism that Millepied is able to conjure between two bodies.

Premiere
March 14th, 2006 at The Joyce Theatre, New York City, United States

Music
Mad Rush for piano by Philip Glass

Costume Design
Lydia Harmon

Lighting Design
Roderick Murray

Length
16 minutes

Closer

Elastic Ballet

Premiere
October 15th, 2022 at the Theatre du Chatelet presented by the Theatre de la Ville, Paris.

Choreography
Madeline Hollander

Music
Yuta Bandoh “Now Dog Dances, Now Cat Sobs”

Lighting Design
Clifton Taylor

Length
15 minutes

13 Dancers

Original Cast
Nayomi Van Brunt, Daphne Fernberger, Sierra Herrera, Marissa Brown, Pay-
ton Johnson, David Adrian Freeland Jr., Doug Baum, Mario Gonzalez, Vini-
cius Silva, Lorin Brubaker, Shu Kinouchi, Peter Mazurowski, Oliver
Greene-Cramer

Elastic Ballet

Everyone Keeps Me

Premiere
October 10th, 2019 at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London.

LADP Premiere
October 15th, 2022 at the Theatre du Chatelet presented by the Theatre de la Ville, Paris.

Choreography
Pam Tanowitz

Music
String Quartet No.1 “Exposure” by Ted Hearne

Costume Design
Original Design: Fay Fullerton
LAD Design: Reid & Harriet

Lighting Design
Clifton Taylor

Length
23 minutes

10 Dancers

Original Cast: (9 dancers)
Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Fumi Kaneko, Anna Rose O’Sullivan, Ashley Dean, Hannah
Grennell, Luca Acri, James Hay, Aiden O’Brien, Calvin Richardson

LADP Premiere Cast: (10 dancers)
Nayomi Van Brunt, Payton Johnson, Courtney Conovan, Marissa Brown, Sierra
Herrera, Peter Mazurowski, Oliver Greene-Cramer, Lorin Brubaker, Jeremy
Coachman, Mario Gonzalez

Everyone Keeps Me

Harbor Me

Choreographer: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

The harbor is a place of shelter: offering protection from the elements, from persecution, but it is also a line in the sand: a border that can keep you out and turn you away. If we imagine each dancer embodying a different element – fire, water, air – one influences, transforms or destroys the next as they move. Is there a way for one element to shelter another? Can one person truly protect another, or only change or destroy them?

Premiere
April 8, 2015 at the Theâtre du Châtelet in Paris, France

Assistant Choreographer and Rehearsal Director
Jason Kittelberger

Assistant Choreographer
Nemo Oeghoede

Set Designers
Fabiana Piccioli and Sander Loonen

Lighting and Costume Designer
Fabiana Piccioli

Music
Park Woojae: Geomungo Extension.  Abyss / Morphosis / Be adrift.   Arrangement composed, performed, and recorded by Park Woojae (by commission for L.A. Dance Project, 2015).

Length
20 minutes

Harbor Me