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I FALL, I FLOW, I MELT — L.A. DANCE PROJECT

I FALL, I FLOW, I MELT—a new evening-length dance work from Benjamin Millepied investigating “techniques of counterpoint, fugue, and canon within his choreography”—will be performed by L.A. Dance Project at their downtown Los Angeles headquarters, reconfigured for an in-the-round experience.Twelve dancers from the ensemble—Doug Baum, Anthony Lee Bryant, Aaron Carr, David Adrian Freeland Jr., Mario Gonzalez, Madison Hicks, Daisy Jacobson, Nathan B. Makolandra, Rachelle Rafailedes, Gianna Reisen, Janie Taylor, Patricia Zhou—will be joined by violinist Etienne Gara, who will play Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Partita for Violin No. 2 in D Minor” as well as sections from Mystery Sonatas and The National Anthems by David Lang.

Alessandro Sartori has designed the costumes for the piece, and Millepied designed the lighting.

L.A. DANCE PROJECT—

I FALL, I FLOW, I MELT

Saturday and Sunday, January 12 and 13.

Tuesday through Sunday,

January 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20.

All performances at 8 pm.

L.A. Dance Project Studios

2245 East Washington Boulevard, downtown Los Angeles.

Benjamin Millepied, I Fall, I Flow, I Melt (2018), rehearsal. Millepied, top right and below center, with his dancers.

All images courtesy L.A. Dance Project.

L.A. DANCE PROJECT — LIVE FROM 2245

After a sold out opening weekend, L.A. Dance Project continues to welcome audiences to its new home for LIVE FROM 2245, a series of performances in downtown Los Angeles.

LIVE FROM 2245 features two rotating programs that highlight the company’s ongoing mission to promote the work of emerging and established choreographers, and to introduce new audiences to iconic modern works,” and PROGRAM A features the local premiere of L.A. Dance Project founder and director Benjamin Millepied’s Bach Studies (Part 1).*
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PROGRAM A—
Second Quartet by Noé Soulier and Bach Studies (Part 1)
Wednesday and Thursday, May 23 and 24.
Saturday, May 26; Tuesday, May 29; and Friday, June 1.
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PROGRAM B—
Martha Graham Duets
Hearts & Arrows and On the Other Side by Millepied.
Tuesday, May 22; Friday, May 25.
Wednesday and Thursday, May 30 and 31.
Saturday, June 2.
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L.A. Dance Project Studios
2245 East Washington Boulevard, downtown Los Angeles.
From top: David Adrian Freeland, Jr., in rehearsal; Benjamin Millepied; the company in rehearsal (2). All photographs courtesy of L.A. Dance Project.

LACDC — RIFT

New work by L.A. Contemporary Dance Company artistic director Genevieve CarsonSzalt dance company founder Stephanie Zaletel, and L.A. Dance Project star Nathan Makolandra will be showcased in RIFT, LACDC’s upcoming engagement at the Odyssey, weekends two and three of the theater’s 2018 dance festival.

The company will present an encore performance of RIFT at El Camino College in March, 2019, danced by Christian Beasley, Genevieve Carson, Hyosun Choi, Kate Coleman, Lenin Fernandez, Jamila Glass, Tess Hewlett, JM Rodriguez, Ryan Ruiz, Drea Sobke, and Tiffany Sweat.

L.A. CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY—

RIFT

Saturday, March 16, at 8 pm.

El Camino College

Marsee Auditorium

16007 Crenshaw Boulevard, Torrance.

L.A. CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY—

RIFT

Friday and Saturday, January 26 and 27, at 8 pm.

Friday and Saturday, February 2 and 3, at 8 pm.

Sunday, February 4, at 2 pm.

Odyssey Theatre
2055 South Sepulveda Boulevard, West Los Angeles.

From top: Genevieve Carson, photograph by Taso Papadakis for the L.A. Contemporary Dance Company; Nomad.Lore, choreographed by Nathan Makolandra, photograph by Robby Sweeny; Makolandra, image courtesy L.A. Dance Project; LACDC, Force Majeure, photograph by Taso Papadakis.

L.A. DANCE PROJECT — MILLEPIED PREMIERES

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 MillepiedIN 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.

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Current company members include Aaron Carr, David Adrian Freeland, Jr.Kaitlyn GillilandAxel Ibot, Daisy Jacobson, Nathan Makolandra, Francisco MungambaRachelle 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 TaylorSecond 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.

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PORT: LA/SF AT LATC

L.A. Contemporary Dance Company and FACT/SF join forces this weekend at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

The Bay Area troupe will present the Los Angeles premieres of REMAINS (choreographed by FACT/SF artistic director Charles Slender-White), and PLATFORM (choreographed by Liane Burns & Slender-White).

LACDC will present the world premiere of Nathan Makolandra’s NOMAD.LORE, and excerpts from Genevieve Carson’s STIMULAZE.

PORT: LA/SF 2017 is the first Peer Organized Regional Touring exchange program. The premiere event was held in San Francisco earlier this month.

 

PORT: LA/SF, Friday and Saturday, September 29 and 30, at 8:30 pm.

LOS ANGELES THEATRE CENTER, 514 South Spring Street, downtown Los Angeles.

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From top: Charles Slender-White; FACT/SF in performance; Platform, FACT/SF.

Image credit: FACT/SF.

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