The L.A. Dance Project–company-in-residence at The Wallis for 2017-2018—is tripling down for its fall season, with three Los Angeles premieres of work by choreographer and artistic director Benjamin Millepied: IN SILENCE WE SPEAK and ORPHEUS HIGHWAY, both from 2017, and CLOSER, a 2006 piece with music by Philip Glass.
In addition, the company will dance the U.S. premiere Noé Soulier’s SECOND QUARTET, which features music by the choreographer and Flemish DJ Tom De Cock.
L.A. DANCE PROJECT, Thursday through Saturday, November 2–4, at 7:30 pm.
THE WALLIS, 9390 Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills.
Current company members include Aaron Carr, David Adrian Freeland, Jr., Kaitlyn Gilliland, Axel Ibot, Daisy Jacobson, Nathan Makolandra, Francisco Mungamba, Rachelle Rafailedes, Janie Taylor, Miranda Wattier, and Patricia Zhou.
L.A. Dance Project, in performance at The Wallis, November 2, 2017. From top:
Second Quartet, Nathan Makolandra and Rachelle Rafailedes; In Silence We Speak, Rafailedes (left) and Janie Taylor; Second Quartet, from left, David Adrian Freeland Jr., Makolandra, and Aaron Carr. Performance photographs by Lawrence K. Ho.
Benjamin Millepied. Photograph by Morgan Lugo. Image credit: The Wallis.
