Tongva Park in Santa Monica 1615 Ocean Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90401
Sunday, June 7 | 4:00 PM
Free and Open to all. RSVP for event details and updates.
At Tongva Park, City of Dance meets one of Southern California’s most distinctive contemporary landscapes. Designed by James Corner Field Operations, the firm behind New York’s High Line, the park transforms a former parking lot into a sculpted terrain of gardens, overlooks, and winding paths.
City of Dance brings movement into this flowing environment, inviting audiences to experience choreography shaped by ocean light, shifting elevations, and the park’s immersive design.
A Contemporary Landscape for the Coast Tongva Park opened in 2013 as part of Santa Monica’s effort to create a welcoming public space steps from the Pacific Ocean. The park was named in honor of the Tongva people, the Indigenous stewards of the Los Angeles Basin and Southern Channel Islands.
The six‑acre site is organized into a series of sculpted “rooms,” each with its own character and plant palette. Its purpose: a landscape that reconnects the city to the coast and offers room for gathering, rest, and exploration.
Designed by James Corner Field Operations The park was created by James Corner Field Operations, internationally known for transforming urban land into places for people. At Tongva Park, the design is defined by:
Curving pathways and elevated overlooks
Native and drought‑tolerant plantings
Shaded seating areas and open lawns
A landmark fountain that anchors the central plaza
The result is a landscape that feels both intimate and expansive, shaped by the coastal climate and the rhythms of daily life.
A Park Rooted in Indigenous History The park’s name honors the Tongva, the Indigenous people whose ancestral lands include present‑day Santa Monica. The naming acknowledges a history that predates the city and affirms the importance of Indigenous presence in this place.
This connection to land and history aligns with City of Dance’s commitment to engaging the stories held within the places where performances unfold.
A Coastal Stage for Movement Tongva Park has become a gathering place for residents and visitors, offering views of the ocean, access to the Santa Monica Pier, and a landscape designed for wandering.
Presented by L.A. Dance Project and Paris Dance Project.
LADP PERFORMS: CITY OF DANCE | TONGVA PARK, SANTA MONICA
Gloria Molina Grand Park at The Music Center 200 N Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90012
Thursday, June 18 | 12:00 PM
Free and Open to all. RSVP for event details and updates.
At Gloria Molina Grand Park, City of Dance meets one of Los Angeles’s most welcoming public spaces. Stretching from The Music Center to City Hall, the park was created as a place for gathering, celebration, and everyday connection. It was renamed in 2023 to honor Supervisor Gloria Molina, a groundbreaking public leader and advocate for cultural access.
City of Dance brings movement into this open landscape, inviting Angelenos to experience choreography shaped by the park’s fountains, terraces, and views across downtown.
A Park Designed for Los Angeles Gloria Molina Grand Park opened in 2012 as part of a major transformation of the downtown core. The goal was simple: turn a government campus into a space people could use, enjoy, and make their own.
The 12‑acre park includes lawns, gardens, shaded seating, and a signature fountain that has become one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks.
A Landscape Framed by Landmarks The park sits between two defining structures: The Music Center, one of the largest performing arts centers in the country, and Los Angeles City Hall, a 1928 Art Deco icon.
A gentle slope connects Grand Avenue to Spring Street, creating a continuous walkway lined with terraces, plantings, and open plazas. The park’s pink benches, broad lawns, and layered pathways have become part of the city’s visual identity.
Honoring Gloria Molina In 2023, the park was renamed for Gloria Molina, the first Latina elected to the California State Assembly, the Los Angeles City Council, and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
Molina championed:
Cultural access
Community investment
Representation in public life
Spaces that welcome everyone
Her legacy resonates deeply with City of Dance, which brings art into the shared spaces of the city.
A Place for Movement and Gathering Since its opening, the park has hosted festivals, concerts, celebrations, and moments of collective expression. It is one of the few places in Los Angeles where people from across the region come together in a single shared environment.
Presented by L.A. Dance Project and Paris Dance Project.
LADP PERFORMS: CITY OF DANCE | GLORIA MOLINA GRAND PARK
Hollywood Forever 6000 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90038
Wednesday, June 17 | 7:00 PM
Free and Open to all. RSVP is required.
Hollywood Forever is one of Los Angeles’s most storied cultural landmarks. Founded in 1899 and home to generations of artists, filmmakers, and musicians, the site has evolved into a place where memory, history, and contemporary culture coexist. Today, it is known as much for its concerts, film screenings, and public gatherings as for its historic grounds.
City of Dance brings movement into a reflective landscape, inviting audiences to experience choreography shaped by the site’s architecture, history, and gardens at dusk.
Getting There Hollywood Forever is accessible by car, rideshare, and Metro bus. Limited street parking is available on nearby blocks, though restrictions vary, so be sure to check street signs. The closest Metro Rail station is Hollywood / Vine on the B Line, approximately a 25–30 minute walk, and several Metro bus lines stop near the entrance, including the 4 and Rapid 704 along Santa Monica Blvd., the 210 on Vine and Gower, and the 217 connecting Hollywood to Mid‑City. The 2 and 302 also stop along Sunset Blvd., a short walk north of the entrance. We encourage ride sharing.
A Landmark of Los Angeles History Hollywood Forever was established at the turn of the twentieth century as one of the first large cemeteries in Los Angeles. Over time, it became intertwined with the history of Hollywood itself, serving as the resting place for actors, directors, writers, and cultural figures who shaped the city’s creative identity.
Its purpose today extends beyond remembrance. It has become a gathering place for community events, performances, and shared experiences.
A Setting Where Architecture and Landscape Meet The grounds of Hollywood Forever unfold across reflecting pools and gardens, historic mausoleums and chapels, and open lawns framed by mature trees, with long views toward the Hollywood Sign and the neighboring Paramount Studios. Together, these elements create an intimate and expansive setting.
A Twilight Stage for Movement The performance at Hollywood Forever unfolds at dusk, allowing the choreography to interact with shifting light and the quiet atmosphere of the grounds.
City of Dance activates this historic site as a stage, inviting audiences to experience movement in a place shaped by memory and the passage of time.
Presented by L.A. Dance Project and Paris Dance Project.
LADP PERFORMS: CITY OF DANCE | HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036
Sunday, June 21 | 3:00 PM
Free and Open to all. RSVP for event details and updates.
City of Dance arrives at LACMA as the museum enters a defining moment in its architectural and cultural evolution. Set along the Miracle Mile, the campus has long been a place where art, public space, and the city meet. City of Dance unfolds outdoors on Feathered Changes, the site‑specific artwork by artist and architect Mariana Castillo Deball, inviting audiences to experience movement in dialogue with the museum’s landscape and the surrounding urban environment.
A Museum Shaped by Los Angeles LACMA was founded in 1961 as an independent art museum for the city, and over the decades it has grown into the largest art museum in the western United States. Its campus has continually evolved, reflecting the changing identity of Los Angeles itself. The museum’s current transformation, anchored by the David Geffen Galleries, reimagines how art and architecture meet on Wilshire Boulevard and signals a new chapter in the institution’s history.
A Campus in Transition The LACMA campus today is a blend of iconic artworks, open plazas, and new construction. Chris Burden’s Urban Light has become one of the most recognizable landmarks in Los Angeles, while the surrounding grounds offer shifting views of the museum’s architecture, the La Brea Tar Pits, and the broader Miracle Mile. The presence of Feathered Changes adds another layer to the site, grounding the performance in a work that reflects the geological and cultural histories of the region. A Site for Contemporary Culture LACMA has long been a center for contemporary art and interdisciplinary programming. Its outdoor spaces have hosted installations, concerts, and public events that invite audiences to experience art beyond the gallery walls. This openness to experimentation aligns with City of Dance’s commitment to bringing choreography into the shared spaces of Los Angeles.
The museum’s position at the heart of the city makes it an ideal site for our capstone performance of City of Dance, a work that reflects on urban life, community, and the stories held within the built environment.
Presented by L.A. Dance Project and Paris Dance Project.
Century Park in Century City 2000 Avenue of the Stars Los Angeles, CA 90067
Tuesday, June 2 | 12:30 PM Wednesday, June 3 | 12:30 PM Thursday, June 4 | 12:30 PM
Free and Open to all. RSVP for event details and updates.
At Century Park, City of Dance meets one of Los Angeles’s most iconic modernist landscapes for part of their campus wide cultural series The Edit.
The site is the centerpiece of Century City’s master plan, which was conceived in the early 1960s on former 20th Century Fox backlot land as a new urban center where architecture, commerce, and public life could coexist. Century Park is a landscaped civic square framed by the twin Century Plaza Towers, designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki (also known for the original World Trade Center) and completed in 1975. The towers remain defining features of the Century City skyline. Balanced on the other end of the park is 2000 Avenue of the Stars a highly efficient sustainable office building bringing architectural symmetry between the old and new of an ever changing city.
The park serves as a generous public plaza and gathering point, and City of Dance brings movement into this civic space, inviting Angelenos to experience choreography against the vertical and open geometry of LAs iconic corporate architecture.
Information on arrival and parking at Century Park: Paid Parking at Century Park Each 12 minutes: $5.15 Daily maximum: $43.25
Guests should enter the parking structure off Constellation Blvd, between Avenue of the Stars and Century Park East. From there, take the elevator to the lobby level; the performance will be located in the lower park between the towers.
Alternative Parking: One hour of free parking is available at Westfield Century City, which is approximately a five-minute walk from the Century Park entrance at 2000 Avenue of the Stars.
City of Dance uses the building’s central plaza as a stage, allowing movement to interact with the site’s scale, geometry, and daily flow.
Presented by L.A. Dance Project and Paris Dance Project.
Hollyhock House at Barnsdall Art Park 4800 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90027
Saturday, June 6 | 4:00 PM Saturday, June 20 | 11:00 AM
Free and Open to all. RSVP for event details and updates.
At Hollyhock House and Barnsdall Art Park, City of Dance meets a century‑old vision for art in public life. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for arts patron Aline Barnsdall, this UNESCO World Heritage Site was conceived as a radical experiment in community, creativity, and shared space.
Today, City of Dance brings movement back to Olive Hill, honoring the site’s history while inviting Angelenos to experience dance woven into its architecture.
The Vision on the Hill Barnsdall Art Park sits atop Olive Hill, purchased in 1919 by Aline Barnsdall, an oil heiress, radical arts patron, and early champion of experimental theater. She envisioned the site as a 36‑acre arts campus for performance, education, and community.
Her ambition: art should be public, accessible, and part of everyday life.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s First L.A. Commission
Barnsdall hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design the complex. Between 1919–1921, he created Hollyhock House, named for Barnsdall’s favorite flower and adorned with stylized hollyhock motifs throughout the architecture.
The house blends:
Prairie Style
Mayan Revival influences
Early California Modernism
It became a harbinger of modern architecture in Los Angeles.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site In 2019, Hollyhock House became Los Angeles’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site, recognized as part of The 20th‑Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, the first modern architecture designation in the U.S. This places Olive Hill in the company of Fallingwater, Taliesin, and the Guggenheim. From Private Vision to Public Park In 1927, Barnsdall donated the house and surrounding land to the City of Los Angeles, ensuring it would remain a public cultural resource. Today, Barnsdall Art Park includes:
Hollyhock House
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) — one of the city’s largest publicly funded contemporary art spaces
Barnsdall Junior Arts Center Gallery — a community‑focused exhibition space
Community arts programs and classes
Open lawns with panoramic views of the city
Together, these spaces continue Barnsdall’s original vision of Olive Hill as a public arts campus, where creativity, architecture, and community life converge.
Hollyhock House embodies the idea that art belongs in public life, a principle at the heart of City of Dance.
Presented by L.A. Dance Project and Paris Dance Project.
Each location is free and open to the public. The performance runs approximately 72 minutes, and because the work is designed to be encountered in public space, audience members are welcome to stay for as long as they like and move around the performance as it unfolds.
Free access with RSVP is required for the Marciano Art Foundation and Hollywood Forever performances only. RSVPs for all other locations are optional, but recommended for arrival and parking information on the day of the performance.
Please note: The RSVP list for the performance + panel discussion at the Marciano Art Foundation is currently at capacity. A limited number of RSVPs have been reserved for LADP Members; contact peter@ladanceproject.org about member tickets.
* Select performances followed by conversations on urbanism, ecology, technology, and social change, curated by Françoise Vergès.
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CITY OF DANCE — Overview In June 2026, L.A. Dance Project and Paris Dance Project present the U.S. premiere of Benjamin Millepied’s public dance initiative, La Ville Dansée / City of Dance.
Premiering in 2025, La Ville Dansée drew more than 10,000 spectators across Paris and four neighboring cities through seven free performances in iconic public spaces.
In 2026, City of Dance activates sites across Los Angeles, and proposes a simple but radical idea: to take dance out of the theater and into the shared spaces of civic life. In doing so, the project asks how movement can deepen our understanding of one another, expand empathy, and reveal the stories held within the city itself.
“The film Koyaanisqatsi found me in the late nineties and never left. Its political force — its warning of a world out of balance — has stayed with me ever since. For years, I dreamed of commissioning a dance to Philip Glass’s extraordinary score. My dream is the event of this year’s City of Dance. I imagined five choreographers, each taking on a specific musical section of the film, coming together to create a single work — a work defined by the velocity of technology and the toll it exacts on nature, on society, on us. Koyaanisqatsi is as urgent today as the day it was made. Perhaps more so. It has been a thrill for all of us to come together and make this piece.” — Benjamin Millepied
CHOREOGRAPHERS
Dimitri Chamblas From the duet À bras-le-corps created with Boris Charmatz in 1993 to the one with Kim Gordon in 2018, Dimitri Chamblas’s career reflects a taste for encounters that he continuously implements. He collaborates with numerous artists such as Bret Easton Ellis, William Forsythe, Emmanuelle Huynh, Glen Keane, Benjamin Millepied, Mathilde Monnier, Alex Prager, Nile Rodgers, Claire Tabouret, and Virginie Viard. In 2015, he founded and directed the 3e Scène at the Paris National Opera, then became director of dance at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles in 2017. His work has been presented at the Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Paris National Opera, Performa New York, and the Louvre Museum. Today, through his Studio, he develops projects such as takemehome with Kim Gordon, Crowd Out, an opera for 1000 voices, and Slow Show, a performance that slows down time. In 2024, he created the performance Fountain at La Contemporaine in Nîmes. Alternately dancer, teacher, choreographer, and artistic director, dance is the vehicle that allows him to travel through various geographical and social contexts around the world.
Madeline Hollander Initially trained as a ballet dancer, Madeline Hollander (b. 1986, Los Angeles, CA) studied cultural anthropology and visual arts at Barnard College (BA) and Bard College (MFA), New York. Solo exhibitions of her work have been mounted at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2021); the University of Texas at Austin, Visual Arts Center (2020); Bortolami Gallery, New York (2020); The Artist’s Institute, New York (2018). Her work has been exhibited at the Brandhorst Museum, Munich, Germany (2022); Performa Biennial, New York (2021); The Aldrich Museum, Connecticut (2020); the Whitney Biennial curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta (2019), Helsinki Contemporary, Finland (2019), the Work Marathon Festival at the Serpentine Galleries in London (2018), and Centre Pompidou Metz, France (2019). As a choreographer, Hollander’s pieces have been performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Joyce, New York; The Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, and Louvre Abu Dhabi with the Los Angeles Dance Project, and she has collaborated with Jordan Peele on his feature film Us (2019) and Urs Fisher’s immersive installation PLAY at Gagosian, New York (2019) and Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA (2019).
Benjamin Millepied Benjamin Millepied is a choreographer, director, and former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. Born in Bordeaux in 1977, he spent his childhood in Senegal before returning to France. He began dancing with Vladimir Skouratoff in Bordeaux, then continued his training at the Lyon Conservatory and the School of American Ballet. In 1995, he joined the New York City Ballet, becoming a principal dancer in 2001. He simultaneously began his career as a choreographer and founded the Danses Concertantes project. In 2010, he choreographed and performed in Black Swan, which brought him worldwide recognition. He founded L.A. Dance Project in 2012, a company dedicated to contemporary creation. Appointed Director of Dance at the Paris Opera Ballet in 2013, he modernized the company by launching a dance medicine program and a digital stage. He invited choreographers such as Forsythe, McGregor, and Pite before resigning in 2016 to focus on creation. Among his recent works are Romeo and Juliet for LADP, Me.You.We.They at the Paris Philharmonie, and in 2024, the ballet Grace Jeff Buckley dances. In 2025, he presents Rituels by Pierre Boulez at the Paris Philharmonie. Benjamin Millepied was awarded the Legion of Honor in 2024 for his contribution to the arts.
Jamar Roberts Jamar Roberts, is a celebrated choreographer based in New York, USA. Jamar is a Resident Choreographer of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (2019–2022), and has had numerous works grace various stages, showcasing his distinct artistic voice. His choreography has been commissioned by leading companies, including New York City Ballet, Miami City Ballet, the Martha Graham Company, BalletX, Ailey 2, and The Juilliard School, where he served as a Creative Associate.
He graduated from New World School of the Arts (Miami, FL) and The Ailey School (New York, NY), and has danced for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. His performance career includes a Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer (2016) and guest appearances with The Royal Ballet in London. His expansive creative work extends to film, including Cooped and A Chronicle of a Pivot at a Point in Time (Works & Process at the Guggenheim) and The First Bluebird in the Morning (LA Opera).
Pam Tanowitz Pam Tanowitz is a celebrated New York-based choreographer and collaborator who has steadily delineated her own dance language through decades of research and creation. She redefines tradition through careful examination, subtly questioning those who came before her yet never yielding to perceptions stuck in the past. Today, the world’s most respected companies—Martha Graham Dance Company, Royal Ballet, New York City Ballet—are integrating her poetic universe into their repertories. Her combination of intentional unpredictability, whimsical complexity and natural drama evokes master dance makers from Cunningham to Balanchine. She is a graduate from Ohio State University and Sarah Lawrence College, she has founded Pam Tanowitz Dance in 2000. Her work Four Quartets (2018), inspired by T.S. Eliot’s literary masterpiece, was called “the greatest creation of dance theater so far this century” by the New York Times. She is currently a professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts/Rutgers University and the first-ever choreographer in residence at the Fisher Center at Bard.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS L.A. Dance Project and Paris Dance Project present the U.S. premiere of City of Dance in 2026. L.A. Dance Project presents this new edition with a newly commissioned section, with foundational support from Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels.
The Century Park Art Fund supports the presentation of City of Dance at Century Park, including the newly commissioned section.
The City of Santa Monica Recreation and Arts Department Art of Recovery Fund and the City of Santa Monica Office of Sustainability and the Environment support the Tongva Park performance and panel.
We gratefully acknowledge additional contributions from Villa Albertine, and the Albertine Foundation through the FUSED program, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and LA County Arts & Culture, with in‑kind support provided by, the Marciano Art Foundation, Hollywood Forever, and Gloria Molina Grand Park at The Music Center in Downtown L.A.
City of Dance was originally commissioned as La Ville Dansée by Paris Dance Project in 2025, with support from CHANEL and Richard Mille, who continue to support Paris Dance Project’s artistic initiatives.
Greenberg Center at Ojai Valley School 723 El Paseo Road Ojai, CA 93023
Friday, June 12, 2026 | 3:30PM Saturday, June 13, 2026 | 3:30PM
L.A. Dance Project Premieres New Works Set to Luciano Berio’s Sequenza Series at the at the 2026 Ojai Music Festival with Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen.
L.A. Dance Project, led by Artistic Director Benjamin Millepied, will premiere new work at the 2026 Ojai Music Festival, created in response to four works from Luciano Berio’s iconic Sequenza series. Choreographed by Janie Taylor, Jobel Medina, and Madeline Hollander, the program brings together LADP’s distinctive movement language with Berio’s groundbreaking explorations of instrumental virtuosity.
The performances feature live music by festival artists Rose Lombardo (flute), Nathan Schram (viola), Hanzhi Wang (accordion), and Jay Campbell (cello). Each dance responds to one of Berio’s Sequenzas—Sequenza I for flute, Sequenza VI for viola, Sequenza XIII for accordion, and Sequenza XIV for cello—composed between 1958 and 2002. These works are central to Berio’s redefinition of solo performance practice, examining the expressive and technical capacities of individual instruments through extended techniques and highly focused writing.
Presented June 12 and 13 at the Greenberg Center at Ojai Valley School, this intimate program highlights the close interplay between dancer and musician, offering audiences a rare opportunity to experience Berio’s virtuosic scores in direct dialogue with new choreographic voices.
“The tradition of the Ojai Music Festival is that there is no tradition other than that people can do things that they wouldn’t be able to do elsewhere. Ojai invites us to dream, and it’s a place where dreams can become reality.” – Esa-Pekka Salonen
Dancers Marissa Brown Rachel Hutsell Shu Kinouchi Audrey Sides Hope Spears
Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory Wade Thompson Drill Hall 643 Park Avenue New York, NY 10065
Monday, March 2, 2026 | 8:00pm Tuesday, March 3, 2026 | 7:30pm Wednesday, March 4, 2026 | 7:30pm Thursday, March 5, 2026 | 7:30pm Friday, March 6, 2026 | 8:00pm Saturday, March 7, 2026 | 8:00pm
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 | 7:30pm Wednesday, March 11, 2026 | 7:30pm Thursday, March 12, 2026 | 7:30pm Friday, March 13, 2026 | 8:00pm Saturday, March 14, 2026 | 8:00pm
Tuesday, March 17, 2026 | 7:30pm Wednesday, March 18, 2026 | 7:30pm Thursday, March 19, 2026 | 7:30pm Friday, March 20, 2026 | 8:00pm Saturday, March 21, 2026 | 8:00pm
Romeo & Juliet Suite Presented as part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels New York Festival
A New York Premiere
Celebrated choreographer, director, and filmmaker Benjamin Millepied harnesses his propulsive style, a fusion of ballet and contemporary movement, to revisit Prokofiev’s iconic ballet in a contemporary, site-specific take blending dance, theater, and film.
Through the use of handheld cameras, the audience is taken on a journey which far exceeds the parameters of a traditional stage setting with live video transmitted to onstage screens that follows the action in different tableaux and locations both backstage and throughout the Armory. The dance-drama plays with the ideas of theatricality and reality and features a condensed version of Shakespeare’s story that distills the narrative to its essentials, focusing on the undying love of the central couple and the explosive emotions elicited. Each performance features a different cast as the star-crossed lovers, departing from traditional gender norms to highlight diverse couples male/ female, male/male, female/female in a universal celebration of love. Millepied thus presents the mythical tale through a modern and original lens, rediscovering its beauty in a fresh and inspired interpretation of the tragic tale.
Romeo & Juliet Suite is a Park Avenue Armory production in association with L.A. Dance Project and Paris Danse, and is presented with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Perelman Performing Arts Center 251 Fulton Street New York, NY 10007
Saturday, February 21, 2026 Sunday, February 22, 2026
Reflections, A Triptych Presented as part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels New York Festival
A New York Premiere
Commissioned by Van Cleef & Arpels, and presented with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, this trilogy of contemporary ballets—Reflections (2013), Hearts & Arrows (2014), and On the Other Side (2016)—draws inspiration from the symbolic and emotional resonance of precious stones. Each work offers a distinct world where movement, music, and design converge to reveal something luminous and intimate.
Presented together for the first time in New York by PAC NYC and Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, the triptych marks the culmination of a creative journey spanning over a decade.
Reflections is a meditation on longing—sensual, sharp-edged, and fleeting. Set to David Lang’s haunting score and framed by Barbara Kruger’s bold visual language, the ballet explores the tension between presence and absence, desire and memory.
Hearts & Arrows pulses with crystalline energy, carried by the precise, layered rhythms of Philip Glass. Liam Gillick’s sculptural design of shifting light and shadow becomes a silent partner to the choreography, where emotion takes on an architectural clarity.
On the Other Side is a deeply human work—intimate, emotional, and communal. Set to a suite of piano études by Glass and enveloped by Mark Bradford’s immersive, painterly set, the ballet becomes a portrait of togetherness, tracing the bonds between individuals and the quiet strength of collective experience.
Commissioned by Van Cleef & Arpels, and presented with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels.
This organization is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture, and by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture as part of Creative Recovery LA, an initiative funded by the American Rescue Plan.
LADP PERFORMS: REFLECTIONS, A TRIPTYCH BY BENJAMIN MILLEPIED
