LADP PRESENTS: OPEN REHEARSAL | LAUNCH:LA ARTISTS CHARISSA KROEGER + EVAN SAGADENCKY

2245
2245 E Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Thursday October 17, 2024 | 2:30p – 3:30p

PRICE:
Free with RSVP

Join us for a glimpse into the artists’ creative process as they make new work during the LAUNCH:LA residency program.

Chosen for their bold interdisciplinary approach to movement and collaboration, 2024 LAUNCH:LA 4 artists Charissa Kroeger and Evan Sagadencky + Kevin Zambrano and Julia Eichten will be creating new work at LADP’s DTLA studio space for the month of October. Works created during the program will premiere on October 25th, 2024 as part of LADP Presents at 2245.

LAUNCH:LA is LADP’s residency program supporting Los Angeles-based emerging artists in the creation and presentation of new work. Each LAUNCH:LA artist receives three weeks of rehearsal space, monetary support, and production resources to create new dance-centered work that is presented to audiences in LADP’s theater at the culmination of the residency.

LADP PRESENTS: OPEN REHEARSAL | LAUNCH:LA ARTISTS CHARISSA KROEGER + EVAN SAGADENCKY

LADP PRESENTS: OPEN REHEARSAL | LAUNCH:LA ARTISTS KEVIN ZAMBRANO + JULIA EICHTEN

2245
2245 E Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 | 11:30a – 12:30p

PRICE:
Free with RSVP

Join us for a glimpse into the artists’ creative process as they make new work during the LAUNCH:LA residency program.

Chosen for their bold interdisciplinary approach to movement and collaboration, 2024 LAUNCH:LA 4 artists Charissa Kroeger and Evan Sagadencky + Kevin Zambrano and Julia Eichten will be creating new work at LADP’s DTLA studio space for the month of October. Works created during the program will premiere on October 25th, 2024 as part of LADP Presents at 2245.

LAUNCH:LA is LADP’s residency program supporting Los Angeles-based emerging artists in the creation and presentation of new work. Each LAUNCH:LA artist receives three weeks of rehearsal space, monetary support, and production resources to create new dance-centered work that is presented to audiences in LADP’s theater at the culmination of the residency.

LADP PRESENTS: OPEN REHEARSAL | LAUNCH:LA ARTISTS KEVIN ZAMBRANO + JULIA EICHTEN

LADP PRESENTS: IMMDED IMMGEWD

2245
2245 E Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Friday, November 22, 2024 | 8pm
Saturday, November 23, 2024 | 8pm

Tickets
$35 | General Admission
$26 | LADP Friend Membership Level (with code)

Due to overwhelming demand, Jobel Medina & Elliott Sellers return to 2245 with their work IMMDED IMMGEWD.

After its premiere at The Broad, choreographer Jobel Medina and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sellers now expand IMMDED IMMGEWD into a 50-minute live performance, fusing unconventional percussion, cello, and visceral movement. The two artists engage in a dynamic and intimate dialogue using their bodies and musical instruments, exploring a range of possibilities in their relationship within the piece.

Special thank you to Los Angeles Dance Project and The Broad for providing a home for this project.

Jobel Medina is one of the most captivating performers and artists I have encountered in recent years. His dedicated practice has led him to develop a singular approach to exploring space and time through the physicality of his dance.
– Benjamin Millepied

Jobel Medina (b. 1990 in Pasig City, Philippines) is a Los Angeles-based choreographer and dancer known for his distinct movement style that merges spectacle with experimental elements in both stage and film. Critics praise his work as “inventive and eye-catching, detailed and wide-ranging.”

Medina’s performances have been presented at prestigious venues such as The Broad, Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, and REDCAT from 2022 to 2024. He currently performs in Dimitri Chamblas’s “Take Me Home” and Benjamin Millepied’s “Grace.” His notable collaborators include Kim Gordon, Alex Prager, Tino Sehgal, Simon McBurney, Christopher Bordenave, Shahar Binyamini, Tom Weinberger, Danielle Agami.

In addition to his performance work, Medina has appeared in commercial campaigns for brands like Calvin Klein, Lexus, OnStar, Adidas, White Claw, and ON. He also appeared in works alongside entertainers such as Zendaya, Anderson Paak, Perfume Genius, and Noah Cyrus.

Medina holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and leads movement workshops at universities across the U.S., sharing his practices with the next generation of artists.

Elliott “L” Sellers is a director, producer, writer, cinematographer, editor, drummer and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. Sellers has released experimental albums like ‘Glasswerx’ with Chris ‘Mid-Air’ Harbach, made solely with sounds of glass. Ridley Scott hand selected “DREAMS” by Zhu+NERO as a part of Saatchi + Saatchi’s new directors showcase at Cannes Lions. Sellers has directed work for artists such as Raphael Saadiq, Broken Bells, John Legend, Terrace Martin, Simone Biles, Tame Impala, Willow Smith, Lil Miquela, Young Thug, Gunna, Lil baby, 2-Chains, Lil Jon, Offset, Zhu, Ty Dolla $ign, Nico Muhly, Yuna, Lil Wayne, and Portugal the Man.

LADP PRESENTS: IMMDED IMMGEWD

LADP PRESENTS: LAUNCH:LA 4 | CHARISSA KROEGER AND EVAN SAGADENCKY + KEVIN ZAMBRANO AND JULIA EICHTEN

2245
2245 E Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Friday, October 25, 2024 | 8pm
Saturday, October 26, 2024 | 8pm
Sunday, October 27, 2024 | 2pm
Sunday, October 27, 2024 | 6pm

Join us after Friday’s performance for LAUNCH:PARTY, celebrating LAUNCH:LA artists with cocktails, music, and dance.

There will be a post-show Q&A after the Saturday 10/26 performance.

Tickets
$25 | General Admission
$20 | Student / Senior
$15 | LADP Friend Membership Level (with code)

Freelance Dancers use code ART4ARTISTS to access $15 tickets.  Limit of 20 per show.

Chosen for their bold interdisciplinary approach to movement and collaboration, 2024 LAUNCH:LA 4 artists Charissa Kroeger and Evan Sagadencky + Kevin Zambrano and Julia Eichten will be creating new work at LADP’s DTLA studio space for the month of October. Works created during the program will premiere on October 25th, 2024 as part of LADP Presents at 2245.

LAUNCH:LA is LADP’s residency program supporting Los Angeles-based emerging artists in the creation and presentation of new work. Each LAUNCH:LA artist receives three weeks of rehearsal space, monetary support, and production resources to create new dance-centered work that is presented to audiences in LADP’s theater at the culmination of the residency.

LADP PRESENTS: LAUNCH:LA 4 | CHARISSA KROEGER AND EVAN SAGADENCKY + KEVIN ZAMBRANO AND JULIA EICHTEN

LADP PRESENTS: IMMDED IMMGEWD (Archive)

2245
2245 E Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Thursday, September 5, 2024 | 8pm
Friday, September 6, 2024 | 8pm
Saturday, September 7, 2024 | 8pm

Tickets
$35 | General Admission
$26 | LADP Friend Membership Level

IMMDED
IMMGEWD

By: Jobel Medina & Elliott Sellers

After its premiere at The Broad, choreographer Jobel Medina and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sellers now expand IMMDED IMMGEWD into a 50-minute live performance, fusing unconventional percussion, cello, and visceral movement. The two artists engage in a dynamic and intimate dialogue using their bodies and musical instruments, exploring a range of possibilities in their relationship within the piece.

Special thank you to Los Angeles Dance Project and The Broad for providing a home for this project.

Jobel Medina (b. 1990 in Pasig City, Philippines) is a Los Angeles-based choreographer and dancer known for his distinct movement style that merges spectacle with experimental elements in both stage and film. Critics praise his work as “inventive and eye-catching, detailed and wide-ranging.”

Medina’s performances have been presented at prestigious venues such as The Broad, Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, and REDCAT from 2022 to 2024. He currently performs in Dimitri Chamblas’s “Take Me Home” and Benjamin Millepied’s “Grace.” His notable collaborators include Kim Gordon, Alex Prager, Tino Sehgal, Simon McBurney, Christopher Bordenave, Shahar Binyamini, Tom Weinberger, Danielle Agami.

In addition to his performance work, Medina has appeared in commercial campaigns for brands like Calvin Klein, Lexus, OnStar, Adidas, White Claw, and ON. He also appeared in works alongside entertainers such as Zendaya, Anderson Paak, Perfume Genius, and Noah Cyrus.

Medina holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and leads movement workshops at universities across the U.S., sharing his practices with the next generation of artists.

Elliott “L” Sellers is a director, producer, writer, cinematographer, editor, drummer and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. Sellers has released experimental albums like ‘Glasswerx’ with Chris ‘Mid-Air’ Harbach, made solely with sounds of glass. Ridley Scott hand selected “DREAMS” by Zhu+NERO as a part of Saatchi + Saatchi’s new directors showcase at Cannes Lions. Sellers has directed work for artists such as Raphael Saadiq, Broken Bells, John Legend, Terrace Martin, Simone Biles, Tame Impala, Willow Smith, Lil Miquela, Young Thug, Gunna, Lil baby, 2-Chains, Lil Jon, Offset, Zhu, Ty Dolla $ign, Nico Muhly, Yuna, Lil Wayne, and Portugal the Man.

LADP PRESENTS: IMMDED IMMGEWD (Archive)

LADP PRESENTS: SUMMER SESSION WITH BOBBI JENE SMITH

L.A. Dance Project
2245 E Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Monday, July 15 – Friday, July 19
10am-2pm

$425 Full Workshop
$380 Full Workshop LADP Member Price
$100 Single Day
$90 Single Day LADP Member Price

Open to all levels.

Join us for a weeklong workshop with dancer, choreographer and director Bobbi Jene Smith. Running July 15-19th, the open level workshop will take place at 2245, L.A. Dance Project’s downtown studio and performance space, with daily sessions from 10 AM to 2 PM.

Daily Schedule:
10am – 11:15am Warm up and improvisation with Bobbi
11:30am – 2:00pm Repertory investigation, Improvisation, and conversation

This immersive experience includes a daily class followed by repertory and improvisational work. Offering participants a unique opportunity to explore movement and creativity under Smith.  Her work delves into themes of expression, freedom and the contradictions within us. Don’t miss this special time to dive into your own creative practice and physicality.

BOBBI JENE SMITH is a director, choreographer, and dancer who makes work for both live theater and film. Her work explores affect and apathy, domestic politics, and the rhythmic and formal connections between music and movement. She danced for the Batsheva Company from 2005-2014. Since then, she has choreographed original works for the Paris Opera Ballet, Theater Basel, Martha Graham Dance Company, L.A. Dance Project (LADP), VAIL Dance Festival, The Royal Danish Ballet, the Batsheva Dance Company, and others. Her dance and music theater works have been presented and supported by the American Repertory Theater, PS 122, La Mama, ODC Theater, Stanford Live, Carolina Performing Arts, Kaufman Hall at the 92Y, Luminato Festival, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and others. Additionally, Smith has starred in or choreographed films including Elvira Lind’s Bobbi Jene, Georgia Parris’s Mari, and Alex Garland’s Annihilation. She has directed her own dance films, including Broken Theater and Gallop Apace. Smith is an alumnus of The Juilliard School, North Carolina School of the Arts, and Royal Winnipeg School. She is a founding member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC). In 2019, she was awarded The Harkness Promise Award and was The Martha Duffy Resident Artist at Baryshnikov Art Center. Smith is currently an Artist In Residence at LADP.

LADP PRESENTS: SUMMER SESSION WITH BOBBI JENE SMITH

LADP PRESENTS: DANCERS CREATE

L.A. Dance Project
2245 E Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Saturday, April 20, 2024 | 2pm

Price:
$10

A showcase of dance works-in-progress from L.A. Dance Project company dancers Daphne Fernberger, Shu Kinouchi and Audery Sides. 

A Q+A with the dancers immediately follows the performance.

Click to learn more about the artists:
Daphne Fernberger
Shu Kinouchi
Audrey Sides

LADP PRESENTS: DANCERS CREATE

LADP PRESENTS: I CARE ABOUT YOUR BODY | A WORKSHOP WITH STEPHANIE ZALETEL

L.A. Dance Project
2245 E Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Friday, March 29, 4pm-8pm
Saturday, March 30, 2pm-6pm
Sunday, March 31, 2pm-6pm w/ vocal sound meditation facilitated by Odeya Nini (must attend all 3 sessions to attend on this day)

$250 Full Workshop (Early Bird*)
$200 LADP Friend Membership Level
$100 Single Day (March 29th or 30th only)

*Price will increase to $275 after March 15th!

Please complete the application to begin the registration process.

I CARE ABOUT YOUR BODY is a workshop and a life-style. Just saying the sentence out loud brings a wave of calm, a softening, a more empathetic approach to whatever, or whoever might be in front of you.

ICAYB – the workshop, in practice offers gentle, somatic and creative movement rituals that harmonize and co-regulate our collective nervous systems and awaken our imaginations. The research is rooted in neuroscience and grounded by spiritual bodies, and is developed to be accessible to most moving bodies. I strongly encourage caregivers, nurses, therapists, educators, nannies, as well as anyone who could use some restoration and resonates with the material below to join us in the space.

A Note from the Facilitator
“This offering was dreamed up during a very slow and sweet season of my life – collaborating with my mother in caregiving for my 90 year old grandmother during her final year earth-side. This period of patient care while her conscious mind grew more and more dim taught me so much about the deep importance of trust between bodies as well as the vital practice of self-care, patience, and somatic attunement when in positions of service. 

Care is radical. Care is mandatory.

In this slow learning season of my life , I also had the time and space to read and educate myself at a pace that felt embodied. ICAYB’s ethos is humbly influenced by the teachings of somatic abolitionist Resmaa Menakem, trauma informed physician Gabor Mate, consent educator Mia Schacter, and Buddhist monk Pema Chodron, among many more authors, educators, and activists (full list of resources will be provided to workshop participants) and how their teachings intersected with my own discoveries in a long sweet year of pausing my life as I had known it and taking care of someone’s body.

As a lifelong dance artist, the natural progression of the past several years has led me to expand on these practices in a way that felt like dance. Intention plus movement, community co-regulation, empathy building, and simplicity. I believe dancers harness the embodied intuitive power that will transform the world. Let’s carve some time to nourish and be nourished, repattern harmful narratives or behaviors, and place care in the priority position. Say it with me, I care about your body.”

Stephanie Zaletel Bio
STEPHANIE ZALETEL (they/she) is a choreographer, dance artist, trauma- aware movement facilitator, educator, dream-tender, caregiver, environmentalist, and somatic based mental health advocate based in Los Angeles. 

They create captivating, collaborative, and voyeuristic dance centered works, pairing with musicians, filmmakers, theater and opera companies. In 2015 they founded SZALT, a feminist dance project which brought their performance based offerings to prestigious venues nationally and internationally including Ford Amphitheater, REDCAT, SYD Fest, Kayenta Center for the Arts, and The Harvey Theater at BAM as well as beloved independent communities in Los Angeles such as Pieter Space, The Handbag Factory, Floating Residency, and LAX Festival. 

Stephanie is currently dancing in projects for Rosanna Gamson // World Wide and offering movement direction for multiple operas under Beth Morrison Projects while also building out their independent evening length touring performance project, vagus. As a movement facilitator and educator they work from a place of cultivating empowerment, emphasizing autonomy, and intuition for varying levels, ages, abilities, and backgrounds of mover. They are co-founder of WIP LA with Kate Wallich – an artist-run monthly series that supports dance works in development with residency space, a well attended public showing, and moderated audience discourse.

They have a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from California Institute of the Arts, and a CE Certificate in Somatics and Psychotherapy Practices from Antioch University.

Testimonials
“Most workshops I’ve experienced felt so structured and not in tune with the collective experience of the group and what we needed at any given moment. This is the first workshop that felt really interconnected and empathetic.”

“I woke up in the middle of the night and while trying to fall back asleep I was reminded of the song we learned with Odeya. I repeated it in my head until I fell back asleep, and now I feel so grateful for this new little ritual I was gifted from the workshop to relax my thoughts.”

“This type of work is truly radical and vital for all to fight the (exhausting) effects of capitalism, disconnection from nature and community.”

“This workshop was one of the most interconnected spaces I’ve ever been in. It felt like collective healing. Not just in the room but beyond.”

Statistics
In its first year, I CARE ABOUT YOUR BODY has served over 60 participants ranging in age from 19-50 years old. Participants are dancers, psychologists, visual artists, mothers, physical therapy coaches, musicians, climbers, yoga instructors, body workers, and more.

LADP PRESENTS: I CARE ABOUT YOUR BODY | A WORKSHOP WITH STEPHANIE ZALETEL

LADP PRESENTS: ART IN MOTION | MOVING PARTS + TRIADE

L.A. Dance Project
2245 E Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Saturday, March 2, 2024  | 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

FREE
RSVP Required

L.A. Dance Project’s downtown Los Angeles studio and performance theater will share a one-day multimedia presentation of Moving Parts and Triade, signature repertory works choreographed by LADP Founder and Artistic Director Benjamin Millepied. Archival video, original costumes, and stage set materials will be shown side-by-side with performance excerpts by company dancers. The live performances are approximately 10 minutes in length and will be performed at 1:00 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm, and 3:00 pm.

Moving Parts premiered on September 22, 2012 at The Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA. 
Commissioned by Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center, Los Angeles, CA. Choreography: Benjamin Millepied
Organ recorded by Nico Muhly at Disney Hall September 2012
Costume Design: Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte
Lighting Design: Roderick Murray
Visual Installation: Christopher Wool

Triade premiered on September 19, 2008 at Opéra Garnier, Paris
Commissioned by Opera National de Paris
Choreography : Benjamin Millepied
Composer : Nico Muhly
Costume Design: Benjamin Millepied

LADP PRESENTS: ART IN MOTION | MOVING PARTS + TRIADE

LADP PRESENTS: SUMMATION DANCE + DERION LOMAN

L.A. Dance Project
2245 E Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Thursday, February 1, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Friday, February 2, 2024  | 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 3, 2024 | 8:00 pm

$45 General Admission
$35 LADP Friend Membership Level
$22 Students

As part of LADP Presents, Summation Dance + Derion Loman will perform a three-night run at L.A. Dance Project’s downtown studio and performance theater.

Summation Dance / LA will make their official west coast debut with a new evening length work, On our way home, choreographed by Taryn Vander Hoop, which investigates how capitalism lives in our bodies, from the intrusive thought patterns that consume us to the ways we conform to the systems in place. A multi-generational cast of ten artists takes the audience on a journey through a lifespan and asks us to confront how we care for our mental health, ourselves, and each other in a late-stage capitalistic society.

Derion Loman’s captivating work features five powerful dancers that explore the intimate relationship with garments. Loman takes a closer, soulful look at clothing, the memory of the people that wear it, and the residual energy they hold. This innovative and thought-provoking performance promises to be a touching and heart-forward spectacle of contemporary dance and artistic expression.

About Summation Dance 
Summation Dance Company, founded by Sumi Clements and Taryn Vander Hoop, is a New York City and LA based modern dance company founded in 2011. The company has performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Gibney Dance Theater, Jacob’s Pillow Inside / Out Festival, Judson Memorial Church, Skirball Center, Z-Space and the 92nd Street Y. 

The mission of Summation is to find the beauty in struggle and the humor in the mundane. Our works are powerfully kinetic and emotional explorations of the human experience that demand physicality as we push the limits of the body. The exhaustion and vulnerability of the dancers is often on display as well as small or eccentric gestures to communicate the essence of our ideas. We offer up this work to affect, inspire and enliven.

About Derion Loman
Derion Loman started dancing at the age of 19. He graduated with a B.A. and B.F.A. in Psychology and Dance, respectively, from the University of California Santa Barbara. He began his career in Ballet Hispanico’s Second Company, where he performed at a variety of different events, most notably, in the 2013 Presidential Inauguration. He joined Pilobolus Dance Theatre from 2013-2017. In his time with Pilobolus, he performed works created in collaboration with artists such as: Sidi Larbi, Avshalom Poluk and Imbal Pinto, OKGO, Javier De Frutos, and Penn and Teller. He later went on to tour with Diavolo Architecture in motion, where he was a finalist on America’s Got Talent with the company. Derion is also known for being a Divisional Finalist on NBC’s World of Dance Season 3, and the 2019 Emmy Awards. He has created work for Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Google, 2Point4 Dance company and many more. He recently won the Pacific Northwest Ballet Film Festival. His latest work set on Pilobolus Dance Theatre premiered at the American Dance Festival and the Joyce Theatre. Derion finds himself to be drawn to projects centered around connectivity, collaboration, and human moments. .

About TwoPoint4 Dance Theatre 
At TwoPoint4 Dance Theatre, our mission is to harness the power of dance and physical theater as a means to inspire, educate, and entertain our community through connection and curiosity. We are dedicated to pushing past the traditions of artistic expression through innovative and evocative works that not only engage and challenge our talented dancers but also captivate and enrich our diverse audience.

Through our performances, dynamic classes, and impactful outreach programs, we are driven to cultivate a deeper appreciation and comprehension of the art of dance, recognizing its profound significance in our culture and society. We firmly uphold the values of excellence, inclusivity, connection, and curiosity, and we are unwavering in our commitment to fostering a warm, inclusive, and supportive environment for all members of the TwoPoint4 Dance Theatre community.

LADP PRESENTS: SUMMATION DANCE + DERION LOMAN