LADP PRESENTS: LAUNCH:LA 2026 | MILKA DJORDJEVICH & STEPHANIE DAI
2245.
2245 E Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90021
Friday, November 6, 2026 | 8:00 PM
Saturday, November 7, 2026 | Le Rendez-Vous 2026 7:00 – 10:00PM
Sunday, November 8, 2026 | 2:00 + 6:00PM*
*6pm show will be followed by a Q&A with the artists.
Tickets
$30 | General Admission
$25 | Student / Senior
$22.45 | LADP Friend Membership Level (with code)
About LAUNCH:LA
Founded in 2021, LAUNCH:LA is L.A. Dance Project’s residency program supporting Los Angeles’s emerging dance makers. The program lifts the economic burden of creating new work by providing selected artists with space, time, monetary support, and a platform to share their work with wider audiences. Designed for early‑career, L.A.-based dance‑centered artists, LAUNCH:LA welcomes applicants from all backgrounds, disciplines, and abilities, with a particular focus on artists from historically underrepresented groups.
Milka Djordjevich
Serbian‑American dance artist Milka Djordjevich interrogates preconceived notions of what dance should or should not be. Her work draws from varied compositional strategies to examine gender in “neutral” public spaces such as theaters, galleries, and museums. Djordjevich’s work has been presented at venues across the U.S., including the American Dance Festival, Danspace Project, REDCAT, MOCA, NY Live Arts, and the Whitney Museum, and internationally in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, and the UK. She also choreographs for film, visual art, opera, and theater, and in 2016 founded STANA, an organization cultivating dance connections locally and globally.
Stephanie Dai
Los Angeles–based performer, choreographer, and educator Stephanie Dai creates research‑driven, interdisciplinary work that forms poetic, moving images. A 2019 graduate of the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, Dai’s choreography has been featured in residencies and showcases including WIP LA, the Ghost Light Residency, the USC Alumni Residency, and Space Lab at LADP. Her recent work URETCHKO premiered at Highways Performance Space and was selected for the 2025 International Modern Dance Festival in Seoul.
Past Resident Artists Include
2021: Taliha Abdiel, DaEun Jung
2022: Mike Tyus & Luca Renzi, Megan Doheny
2023: JA Collective, Jamar Kamau White
2024: Charissa Kroeger & Evan Sagadencky, Julia Eichten & Kevin Zambrano
2025: Megan Paradowski, Rosalynde LeBlanc
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from The Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation.
