For this year’s avidly anticipated Spring Dances, L.A. Dance Project presents the world premiere of Janie Taylor’s Sleepwalker’s Encyclopedia and the Los Angeles premiere of Benjamin Millepied’s Me.You.We.They.
Choreographed on Lorrin Brubaker, Jeremy Coachman, Courtney Conovan, Daphne Fernberger, David Adrian Freeland Jr., Shu Kinouchi, Peter Mazurowski, Audrey Sides, Hope Spears, Aidan Tyssee, and Nayomi Van Brunt, Taylor’s work is performed against a backdrop designed by Ben Styer.
Millepied’s Me.You.We.They premiered at the Philharmonie de Paris in March 2024. Danced to “One Speed, Many Shapes,” a new composition by Nico Mulhy, the work marks the seventh collaboration between the two artists.
Alternating on the bill are two earlier Millepied-Muhly pieces: Moving Parts, first performed at the company’s Los Angeles debut in 2012, and Triade, a 2008 tribute to Jerome Robbins.
See info and link below for details.
L.A. DANCE PROJECT — SPRING DANCES
Program A
SLEEPWALKER’S ENCYCLOPEDIA, MOVING PARTS, and ME.YOU.WE.THEY
Thursday, May 2, and Friday and Saturday, May 10, 11, and 18, at 8pm
Saturday, May 4, at 4pm
Sunday, May 12, at 1pm
Program B
SLEEPWALKER’S ENCYCLOPEDIA, TRIADE, and ME.YOU.WE.THEY
Friday and Saturday, May 3, 4, and 17, at 8pm
Sunday, May 5, at 1pm
Saturday, May 11, at 4pm
Sunday, May 12, at 5pm
L.A. Dance Project
2245 East Washington Boulevard, downtown Los Angeles
ladanceproject.org/events/spring-dances/
L.A. Dance Project, from top: Shu Kinouchi in Janie Taylor, Sleepwalker’s Encyclopedia; Nayomi Van Brunt and David Adrian Freeland Jr. in Sleepwalker’s Encyclopedia; Daphne Fernberger and Jeremy Coachman in Sleepwalker’s Encyclopedia; Hope Spears, Coachman, and Lorrin Brubaker in Benjamin Millepied, Moving Parts; Courtney Conovan in Benjamin Millepied, Me.You.We.They; Spears and Coachman in Me.You.We.They.
Photographs by Brian Hashimoto, courtesy and © the photographer and L.A. Dance Project.
