Repertory 

Repertory 

Quintett

Choreographer: William Forsythe
In collaboration with Dana Caspersen, Stephen Galloway, Jacopo Godani, Thomas McManus and Jone San Martin

Lyrical, committed and moving, Quintett is a quiet masterpiece set to Gavin Bryars’s “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet.” On stage filled with bright, white light, Quintett brilliantly evokes and develops Bryars’s themes of loss, hope, fear and joy. In Quintett the dancers set into motion a seamless flow of duets, solos and trios in counterpoint to the heartbeat of Gavin Bryars’s music. Weaving and tumbling, the dancers create an eddying force that grows in fluid, joyous complexity—a torrent containing, in its bright, vital vision, an awareness of its own eventual end.

Premiere
October 9, 1993 at Opernhaus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Lighting Design
William Forsythe

Costume Design 
Stephen Galloway

Music
Gavin Bryars, “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet” (© Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG, Mainz)

Staging
William Forsythe, Stephen Galloway, Thomas McManus and Jone San Martin

Length
26 minutes

Quintett

Reflections

Choreographer: Benjamin Millepied, In collaboration with Julia Eichten, Charlie Hodges, Morgan Lugo, Nathan Makolandra and Amanda Wells

Reflections is conceived as a true artistic collaboration, not only between choreographer Benjamin Millepied, composer David Lang and artist Barbara Kruger, but also between Millepied and the dancers of L.A. Dance Project.

Reflections premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, France on May 23, 2013. It was commissioned by Van Cleef and Arpels as the first part of a Triptych entitled “Gems”, to be completed by two different artistic teams collaborating with Benjamin Millepied.

The stark essentiality of Kruger’s artwork captures the sensuality and ephemeral feelings of longing and desire, which runs through all of Millepied’s work. David Lang’s minimal score for piano solo is a unique selection from This was written by hand/memory pieces, carefully chosen by Millepied and Kruger during the collaborative workshop process in Los Angeles and performed by Andrew Zolinsky for Cantaloupe Records.

Premiere
May 23, 2013 at Theâtre du Châtelet in Paris, France. 

Visual Installation and Costume Design
Barbara Kruger 

Lighting Design
Roderick Murray

Music
David Lang
This was written by hand / memory pieces (selections)

Piano
Andrew Zolinsky

Length
30 minutes

Commissioned by Van Cleef & Arpels.

Reflections

Rising Water

Choreography
Gianna Reisen

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

Lighting Design
François-Pierre Couture

Costume Design
Katherine Tsina for AVION

Music
Andrew Bird:
Echolocations: River: Dear Killdear, Ellipses
Echolocations: Canyon: Rising Water

Length
13 minutes

Rising Water

Run From Me

Choreographer
Shannon Gillen

Premiere
June 16, 2018 at The Musco Center for Performing Arts

Lighting Design
Barbara Samuels

Music
Fieldhead

 Length
30 minutes

Run From Me

Sarabande

Choreographer: Benjamin Millepied

Created in 2009 on Millepied’s then pick-up troupe Danses Concertantes, Sarabande is set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach: excerpts from Partita for Solo Flute in A Minor and two of Bach’s six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. In this ballet for four male dancers, Millepied’s pervading lyricism and penchant for a fluid and, at times, near-improvisatory movement quality breathe dimension into these exemplary solos for flute and violin which are performed live on stage (whenever possible). The piece opens to the sounds of a bright, playful flute from which a solitary male dancer draws his impetus with poised exuberance. The mood then shifts to a more somber place during the second solo, which is succeeded by the arrival of the noble and virtuosic violin, and with it a courtly-yet-contemporary pas de trois that sets the tone for the various solo and ensemble sections that follow.

Premiere
November 2009 at Maison de la Danse in Lyon, France

Lighting Design
Masha Tsimring and Benjamin Millepied

Costume Design
Paul Cox

Music
Johann Sebastian Bach:
-Partita for Solo Flute in A Minor, BWV 1013: Allemande, Sarabande 
-Sonata for solo violin No. 2 in A Minor BWV 1003: Andante
-Partita for Solo Violin No. 1 in B Minor BWV 1002: Corrente, Sarabande, Double
-Partita for Solo Violin No. 1 in G Minor BWV 1001: Presto

Length
23 Minutes

Sarabande

Second Quartet

Choreographer: Noé Soulier 

Per choreographer Noé Soulier, the movements present in his Second Quartet are not immediately recognizable. Rather, they are motivated by concrete goals—such as avoiding, striking, throwing, pushing, and resisting—but impeded through the use of specific strategies. The targeted objects are not present, or body parts used during the movements are ill-suited for their goals. For example, a dancer may hit an imaginary object or attempt to push another dancer with his throat or rib cage. Without the spectator having to recognize the motivations behind these incomplete movements, they are intended to stimulate his or her own physical memory by appearing directed or defined by something that is invisible. This openness allows images, physical expectations, and other associations to inform the spectator’s perception of the movement itself. 

World Premiere
September 22, 2017 at The LUMA Foundation, Arles, France

Lighting design
Victor Burel

Music
Music by Tom De Cock (Ictus Ensemble) and Noé Soulier
Recorded and mixed by Alexandre Fostier

Length
28 Minutes 

* L.A. Dance Project developed this work thanks to an Artistic Residency in July 2017 at The LUMA Foundation in Arles

Second Quartet

Solo at Dusk

Choreographer: Bobbi Jene Smith in collaboration with Or Schraiber and the dancers

They said:
There used to be a town

They said:
People used to talk with their bodies. Sounds made you remember.

They said:
Practice to feel.

They said:
The ground was soft, and so were they. Flowers grew over their faces.

Solo At Dusk – a dance for seven individuals in the throes of loss, memory, and rediscovery.

Premiere
September 10th, 2020

Music
Music & Sound Design by Alex Somers
Cello By Gyða Valtýsdóttir
Additional Mixing By Ben Babbitt

Cover of La Solitude by Barbara by Yonaton Daskal 
Performed by Alma Toaspern
Special thanks to CORPUS 

Costume Design
COS

Masks design & Production
Janie Taylor

Length
40 minutes

Commissioned by L.A. Dance project and made possible by the generous support of the Someland Foundation.

Solo at Dusk

Split Step

A piece by
Emily Mast & Zack Winokur made in collaboration with Aaron Carr, Anthony Lee Bryant, Axel Ibot, Daisy Jacobson, David Freeland Jr., Doug Baum, Gianna Reisen, Janie Taylor, Kaitlyn Gilliland, Mario Gonzales, Nathan Makolandra, Patricia Zhou, Rachelle Rafailedes, Sebastien Marcovici.

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

Lighting Design
Christopher Kuhl

Music
Evan Mast

Sound Editor
Yehuda Duenyas

Costume Design
Emily Mast & Zack Winokur in collaboration with Anthony Lee Bryant, Daisy Jacobson, David Freeland Jr., Doug Baum, Gianna Reisen, Janie Taylor, Mario Gonzales, Rachelle Rafailedes and Jessica Owen

Length
21 minutes

Split Step

The Betweens

Choreographer: Jermaine Spivey & Spenser Theberge in collaboration with the dancers.

This project began as an investigation of the possibilities for performance, in both body and site, during the Covid era. As our conversation around this deepened, the words “placement”, “replacement”, and “displacement” became increasingly present. There’s an inherent relationship between these words, and it’s liminal and ever-changing— slipping in and out of, adapting to, and accommodating different states of being. This liminality has been at the heart of our process, and it lead us to this central question: How do you maintain a sense of self when you’re constantly placed, replaced, and displaced? Through this process, we aim to explore, perform, and reframe this question as a representation of this never-ending reorientation of self and site.

Premiere
September 17th, 2020

Music
Original Score by Maxwell Transue

Sound Designer
Gahyae Ryu

Costume Design
Rebma Salad for 69

Length
30 minutes

Commissioned by L.A. Dance Project

The Jermaine Spivey & Spenser residency was made possible with the generous support of Van Cleef & Arpels

The Betweens

The Missing Mountain

Premiere
September 14th, 2023 at L.A. Dance Project Performing Space.

Choreography
Bobbi Jene Smith & Or Schraiber in collaboration with LADP

Lighting Design
Christine Ferriter

Scenic Design
Bobbi Jene Smith

Costume Design
Bobbi Jene Smith, Lauryn Terciera, Stephanie Sleeper

Length
60 minutes

Music
Original music by Yonatan Daskal
PARTITA IN D MINOR FOR SOLO VIOLIN – CHACONNE
Written by J.S Bach
Performed by Keir GoGwilt
Courtesy of Keir GoGwilt
Actus Tragicus from BMV 106 – J.S Bach arr. by György Kurta – Performed and
recorded by Coleman Itzkoff
Favorite Clown – Asaf Avidan feat. Coleman Itzkoff
My Tunnels are Long and Dark these Days – Asaf Avidan
Lie to Me – Tom Waits
Won’t Be a Thing to Become – Colin Stetson/ Sarah Neufeld
Weatherman text- Coleman Itzkoff, Keir GoGwilt, Shu Kinouchi

Notes
The Missing Mountain contains elements, themes and moments danced or dreamed in the companion pieces – Lost Mountain and Caldera. Lost Mountain was created at LaMaMa Experimental Theater and produced by Liz Sargent. It premiered in 2019 with the original cast of Marta Miller, Ariel Freedman, Jesse Kovarsky, Asaf Avidan, Keir GoGwilt, Coleman Itzkoff, YáYa, Evan Copeland, and Or Schraiber. Caldera premiered at CORPUS of the Royal Danish Ballet in 2019 with the original cast of Hazuki Kojima. Alma Toaspern, Alexander Stager, YáYa, and Louella May Hogan. As with the beauty of art and creation, their souls and memories have been imprinted in The Missing Mountain and we would like to say thank you.

Special Thanks
Benjamin Millipeid, Lucinda Lent, Pierre Rougier, Marta Miller, Dea Lou Schraiber

The Missing Mountain