LADP PRESENTS: LAUNCH:LA 5 | ROSALYNDE LEBLANC + MEGAN PARADOWSKI
2245.
2245 E Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021
Friday, September 19, 2025 | 8pm
Saturday, September 20, 2025 | 8pm*
Sunday, September 21, 2025 | 2pm + 6pm
*There will be a post-show Q&A after the Saturday 9/20 performance.
Tickets
$25 | General Admission
$20 | Student / Senior
$15 | LADP Friend Membership Level (with code)
L.A. Dance Project presents 2025 LAUNCH:LA resident artists Megan Paradowski and Rosalynde LeBlanc in four shared-bill performances this September.
Selected for their distinct artistic voices and commitment to pushing the boundaries of contemporary performance, Paradowski and LeBlanc embody the spirit of LAUNCH:LA—an initiative designed to uplift Los Angeles-based artists. Their projects reflect the program’s emphasis on experimentation, collaboration, and the creation of bold new work.
*This program may contain nudity.
About 2025 LAUNCH:LA Artists
Megan Paradowski
Megan Paradowski is a contemporary choreographer and founder of Empara, an experiential dance company creating live performance, film, and interdisciplinary collaborations. Her work blends theatricality with risk-driven movement, combining raw physicality, pedestrian gesture, and precise technique. Megan holds a BFA in dance from NYU, and her choreography has been presented across the U.S., Europe, and Mexico in venues including The Aster, Soho House, 2220 Arts + Archives, Museum of Neon Art, NAVEL LA, and Hosek Contemporary Berlin. She is drawn to the transformative space where movement and personal experience collide.
Rosalynde LeBlanc
Rosalynde LeBlanc is a dancer, choreographer, producer, and educator whose career spans concert dance, opera, and film. She has performed with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, and the Metropolitan Opera, and more recently with Keith Johnson, Colleen Thomas, Taryn Vander Hoop, and Charissa Kroeger. Roz co-directed the Peabody Award-winning documentary Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters, and was recently honored with the 2025 Exemplary Women in Dance in L.A. Award. She is a professor at Loyola Marymount University, and holds degrees from SUNY Purchase (BFA) and Hollins University (MFA). She is represented by Bloc L.A.
About LAUNCH:LA
Founded in 2021, LAUNCH:LA is L.A. Dance Project’s annual residency program supporting early-career, Los Angeles-based dance makers by easing financial and logistical barriers to the creation of new work. The program champions artists from all backgrounds, disciplines, and abilities—particularly those from communities historically underrepresented in the field—and encourages proposals that explore interdisciplinary collaboration across dance, technology, visual art, music, and more.
LAUNCH:LA is supported, in part, by The Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation.