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Welcome to the 201718 season of Newman Center Presents. We are proud to present an eclectic mix of performances that represents the highest level of artistic excellence. We are dedicated to exploring a broad range of culturally diverse programs and stimulating dialogue on social issues through the performing arts. This season, we launch two new series: the Family Series and the Student Matinee Series. These shows are a great way to introduce young people to the power and magic of live performance. The Newman Center continues to grow and thrive because of your support. We invite you to share your enthusiasm with your friends and family by organizing groups to attend performances or bringing a young person to a performance. I look forward to sharing more unforgettable evenings together. Thank you for being a part of the Newman Center’s 15th season.
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Over the years, Denver audiences have come to count on the Newman Center and its acclaimed performing arts series. This year, we are launching a Family Series and a Student Matinee Series. Both series are results of the realization of DU IMPACT 2025, our strategic vision, which calls on the University to expand its deep roots in the Denver community, with a commitment to diversity and inclusion through our programming, learning and community engagement. The Newman Center’s stages enable our students to demonstrate their remarkable gifts, attracting some of the most promising and talented young people in the nation. This building helps every student production in our Lamont School of Music and the Department of Theatre showcase their extraordinary energy, enthusiasm and dedication. Here at the Newman Center, our students pursue their passions and discover their capacity to collaborate and innovate. May their creativity and talent inspire us all to reflect on what it means to be human—to create and appreciate artistic expression and use it to understand ourselves and our world. Enjoy tonight’s performance. I hope you will return again to another of our many offerings. Rebecca Chopp Chancellor, University of Denver
Opened in 2002, The Robert & Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver is acclaimed as one of the nation’s finest performing arts centers. Unique in the region for its size, acoustic quality, and caliber of artists, the Newman Center is dedicated to showcasing cultural diversity, stretching the imagination, and stimulating dialogue. The Newman Center hosts nearly 500 performances each season with up to 120,000 people in attendance. As a creative and effective leader in arts presenting the NCPA has served as an artistic gathering place and an economic engine elevating Denver’s reputation as the Cultural Capital of the West. In 2016, Kendra Whitlock Ingram joined the Newman Center in the Executive Director position. Heeding the call of DU IMPACT 2025 as well as a parallel directive in the Denver Arts & Venues Imagine 2020 plan to ‘make art unavoidable,’ Ingram is focused on blurring the lines between campus and community by presenting diverse and excellent performances, developing key community partnerships, and creating programming for families in order to introduce new generations to the performing arts.
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A CONVERSATION WITH BOB AND JUDI NEWMAN What are you most excited about this season? We are very proud of the fact that every year NCP features world-class performers that might not otherwise appear in Denver. Gates Hall is a wonderfully constructed, mid-size venue with outstanding acoustics – a classic and marvelous place to see and hear great performances.
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This year, the quality of programming continues and the breadth of programming expands. We look forward to long-time favorites like the King’s Singers, Sarah Chang and Gregory Porter as well as new surprises like Cashore Marionettes. We are particularly excited for the new Family and Student Matinee Series that will bring incredible performances to young audiences.
Bob: I very much like musical theater so my first choice would be a reprise of My Fair Lady, with Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway and Audrey Hepburn. Since that will never happen, I would settle for a Lamont production, perhaps showcasing both professionals and DU students in various roles. A second choice: we were fortunate to once have Marvin Hamlisch visit our home in Denver and play for a small gathering. He even composed a short song, with lyrics, for us. What a talent – it was magical! Judi: My fantasy concert would be Frank Sinatra with the Rat Pack including Liza Minelli, Frank with Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr. dancing, Barbra Streisand (no politics), Tony Bennett, Adele, the Irish Tenors, Yo-Yo Ma, Victor Borge and Louis Armstrong. Wow, what a show that would be! Please watch the sound volume – no ear plugs needed!
If you had to choose one performance at the Newman Center from the past 14 years, what would be your favorite? A truly tough question to answer – so many outstanding performances! But perennially, we tend to favor vocal groups like Cantus, King’s Singers and the Whiffenpoofs as well as instrumental groups like Colorado Symphony ensembles, Bluegrass Masters, and Boston Brass. A truly memorable performance was by Manhattan Transfer at the 5th Anniversary concert.
To view a listing of our previous 14 seasons, please visit our website at www.newmancenterpresents.com and click on past seasons.
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L.A. Dance Project Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 7:30 pm June Swaner Gates Concert Hall There will be a 15 minute intermission between each work.
Hearts & Arrows By Benjamin Millepied Music: String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima) by Philip Glass* Performed by Kronos Quartet Liam Gillick, Visual Concept Roderick Murray, Lighting Design Janie Taylor, Costume Design Premiere: September 25, 2014 at the Opera Theatre of St. Etienne in SaintEtienne, France, in coproduction with Lyon Biennale de la Danse. With Mr. Gillick’s visual concept: December 1, 2014 in Miami, Florida. Commissioned by Van Cleef & Arpels.
Second Quartet By Noé Soulier Music: Tom De Cock (Ictus Ensemble) and Noé Soulier Recorded and mixed by Alexandre Fostier
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Music: Partita for Violin No. 2 in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Alessandro Sartori for Ermenegildo Zegna Couture, Costume Design Joey Guthman, Lighting Design Premiere: February 2018, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.
Flash photography is not permitted. *©1985 Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc. (ASCAP). Used by permission. Performed by Kronos Quartet – Nonesuch Records. Recorded in 1993. Produced by Judith Sherman, Kurt Munkacsi, and Philip Glass.
HEARTS & ARROWS Hearts & Arrows premiered in 2014 and is part of Benjamin Millepied’s “Gems” trilogy, a collaboration between L.A. Dance Project and Van Cleef & Arpels. (The two other ballets completing this trilogy are Reflections, inspired by the energy of rubies, and On the Other Side, inspired by emeralds.) Millepied has described this trilogy of ballets as “an emotional journey” with “a strong and hopeful sense of lasting love and community amidst the uncertainty in which we live.” Hearts & Arrows, with costumes by company dancer Janie Taylor, is inspired by diamonds and the idea of light. The dancers’ impressive athleticism and musicality are amplified through Millepied’s masterful choreography. The New York Times described the work as “a propulsive, kinetic stream of movement … [that] offers a glowing display of Mr. Millepied’s craftsmanship — the way he keeps his eight dancers constantly moving through asymmetrical and contrapuntal patterns…Everything is unexpected, everything feels serendipitously right.”
SECOND QUARTET 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.
BACH STUDIES (PART 1) Bach Studies (Part 1) is the latest work from L.A. Dance Project’s Artistic Director, Benjamin Millepied. Inspired by the depth and complexity of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music, Millepied explores the Partita for Violin No. 2 in D Minor by applying the compositional techniques of counterpoint, fugue, and canon to choreography. Featuring costumes by long-time ii
LADP collaborator, Alessandro Sartori, Bach Studies (Part 1) masterfully translates music into movement, resulting in a work that is at once technically sophisticated, delicate and emotionally compelling.
CREATIVE BIOGRAPHIES Benjamin Millepied Benjamin Millepied is a choreographer, filmmaker, and former professional dancer whose growing body of creative works, coupled with his 16-year career with New York City Ballet (NYCB), distinguish him as one of the 21st century’s most notable artists. Born in Bordeaux, France, Mr. Millepied began his ballet training at the age of eight. He attended the Conservatoire National de Lyon before travelling to New York City to attend the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of NYCB. In 1995, Millepied was invited to join NYCB where he performed a vast repertoire of works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins and originated roles in ballets by Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon, Mauro Bigonzetti, Angelin Preljoçaj, and Peter Martins, among others. Mr. Millepied began choreographing during his time at NYCB, founding a pick-up troupe, Danses Concertantes, in 2002 with whom he successfully toured for eight years. The Baryshnikov Arts Center invited him to serve as choreographer-in-residence from 2006 to 2007 during which time he created the much-lauded solo Years Later for Mikhail Baryshnikov. Millepied’s choreography has entered the repertories of major dance companies worldwide, including NYCB, Paris Opera Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Berlin Staatsoper, Mariinsky Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Lyon Opera Ballet, among others. In 2010, Millepied’s choreography was featured in Darren Aronofsky’s award-winning film Black Swan, in which he also starred. Mr. Millepied moved to Los Angeles in 2012 to found his company L.A. Dance Project (LADP) which has since given hundreds of performances at prestigious venues around the world, as well as site-specific performances in eminent non-traditional venues. To accommodate the scope of his creative projects, Millepied founded the Amoveo film production company with composer Nicholas Britell in 2013. In 2014, he also co-founded Artform with Mr. Britell: a tech start-up with the aim of promoting present-day artists and the arts at large. In January 2013, the Paris Opera Ballet appointed Millepied as its new Director. He programmed two highly successful seasons for the company before resigning in 2016 to focus more fully on the development of LADP and to pursue his own work as a choreographer and filmmaker. Mr. Millepied has directed numerous short dance films in recent years and is currently working on two feature films, one of which will be a musical adaptation of Carmen to be released in 2019.
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Mr. Millepied is a past recipient of the prestigious “Bourse Lavoisier” scholarship from the French government, a winner of the Prix de Lausanne, a recipient of SAB’s Mae. L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise, and a United States Artists Wynn Fellow in Dance. In 2010 he was made a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.
Noé Soulier Born in Paris in 1987, Noé Soulier trained at CNSMD (Paris), the National Ballet School of Canada, and at PARTS (Brussels). He received a master degree in philosophy at La Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and took part in Palais de Tokyo’s residency program, Le Pavillon. In 2010, he won the first prize of the competition Danse Élargie, organized by Le Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and Le Musée de la Danse, with Little Perceptions in which he started a reflection on ways to define movement. With the solo Movement on Movement (2013), Noé decided to focus on the shift between the gestures and the speech in order to question how they interact to create meaning. In Movement Materials (2014) and Removing (2015), he further developed the research initiated with Little Perception on the perception and interpretation of movement. In October 2016, his choreographic research, Actions, mouvements et gestes, was published by the publishing house of Centre National de la Danse. In September 2017, he creates Performing Art, a choreographed exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, with selected artworks
from the museum collection on stage thereby questioning the place of dance in the museum.
Liam Gillick Liam Gillick is an artist based in New York. Following his studies in fine art at Goldsmiths’ College, he held his first solo exhibition at Karsten Schubert Gallery in London in 1989. Gillick’s work has subsequently been included in numerous important exhibitions including Documenta and the Venice and Berlin biennales. Solo museum exhibitions have taken place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and Tate in London. Gillick’s work is held in many important public collections including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, The Guggenheim Museum in New York and Bilbao and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Over the last 25 years, Gillick has also been a prolific writer and critic of contemporary art – contributing to Artforum, October, Frieze and e-flux Journal. He is the author of a number of books including a volume of his selected critical writing. High profile public works include the British Government Home Office (Interior Ministry) building in London and the Lufthansa Headquarters in Frankfurt. Throughout this time, Gillick has extended his practice into experimental venues and collaborative projects with artists including Philippe Parreno, Lawrence Weiner and Louise Lawler.
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Roderick Murray Roderick Murray’s lighting designs have been seen nationally and internationally since 1992. His work with Benjamin Millepied began in 2003 and since then they have collaborated on five world premieres presented variously at Sadler’s Wells, the Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, the Joyce Theater in New York and others. Murray has collaborated with a variety of artists whose works have been presented at the Next Wave Festival at BAM including the poet Sekou Sundiata and choreographers Ralph Lemon and Wally Cardona. He received the 2001 Bessie Award for his work for Wally Cardona’s Trance Territory which was presented at the Joyce Theater. Murray also designs full scenic and lighting installations for various choreographers, especially the renowned Kimberly Bartosik and Yanira Castro. He has also designed the lighting for many different dance companies and choreographers including Luca Veggetti, Andonis Fiondakis, Paradigm Dance, Dusan Tynek, Scotty Heron, Pepatian, Hot Mouth, Donna Uchizono, Ricochet Dance, Risa Jaroslow and Dancers, Bill Young and Daners, and Kriota Willburg, among many others. Prior to dedicating himself full time to design, he performed for nine years with the award winning Circus Amok.
COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES Aaron Carr began dancing at age six in his hometown of Pensacola, Florida where he studied throughout high school as an ABT National Training Scholar and continued his education at The Juilliard School, graduating in 2009. He immediately became a member of KEIGWIN + COMPANY while simultaneously dancing with ZVIDANCE until joining LADP in 2013 . In addition to international touring and dance work, he worked as repetiteur for Larry Keigwin at UNCSA and CNSMDP in Paris as well as an assistant at the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Aaron is also committed to his work in education and has taught programs with Broadway Dance Center, New York University’s summer program, Keigwin + Company’s program at Juilliard, the Edinburgh International Festival, and also back home with Ballet Pensacola. David Adrian Freeland Jr. is from Jacksonville, FL. He began his dance training at LaVilla School of the Arts under the direction of Michelle Ottley-Fisher and Susan Jennings. He went on to study at the Jacksonville Centre of the Arts, where he received much of his training under the direction of Kezia Rolle. David has attended summer intensives at the Nashville Ballet and The Juilliard School under full scholarship. He later studied at the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase College. David was a member of Alvin Ailey’s second company, Ailey II, for three seasons. During that time, he performed the works of Alvin Ailey, Judith Jamison, Robert Battle, Troy Powell, Dwight Rhoden, and Jennifer Archibald. David has also performed in the 2015-2016 season at The Metropolitan Opera House. David is excited to share the stage with the amazingly talented artists of the L.A. Dance Project. iv
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Kaitlyn Gilliland trained at the Minnesota Dance Theatre under Loyce and Lise Houlton and at the School of American Ballet, where she received the school’s Mae L. Wien Award for outstanding promise in 2004. From 2006 to 2011, Kaitlyn danced with the New York City Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet and was named the company’s Janice Levin Dancer for 2009-2010. Since leaving the New York City Ballet, Kaitlyn has performed with several New York Citybased dance companies, appearing regularly with Twyla Tharp since joining her 50th Anniversary Tour in 2015. Kaitlyn has served on the faculty of the School of American Ballet and the New York City Public School for Dance, and, in May of 2015, she graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Kaitlyn joined L.A. Dance Project in 2017. Axel Ibot began his dance training at age seven at a small dance school in the suburbs of Paris. In 1996, at age ten, he entered the Paris Opera Ballet School. In 2003 he joined the Paris Opera Ballet’s Corps de Ballet. He was promoted to “Coryphée” in 2007, and to “Sujet” in 2012. He has danced soloist and demi-soloist roles in many of the great classical ballets of Paris Opera Ballet’s repertory, including Giselle, Swan Lake, Paquita, The Nutcracker, Raymonda, and La Source. He has also danced in ballets by renowned 20th and 21st century choreographers, including George Balanchine, William Forsythe, Christopher Wheeldon, and Justin Peck. Axel also created roles in works new to the Paris Opera Ballet repertory, among them Romeo (Sasha Waltz), Clear Loud Bright Forward (Benjamin Millepied), L’Anatomie de la Sensation (Wayne McGregor), Kaguyahime (Jiří Kylián), Psyché (Alexei Ratmansky), Seasons’s Canon (Crystal Pite), and Drumming (Anne Teresa de Keersmeaker). He has collaborated with the Maeght Foundation for a special performance as well as director Salvatore Calcagno in the context of the Kunsten Arts Festival. Axel joined L.A. Dance Project in 2017. Nathan B. Makolandra began dancing and choreographing in Greenville, South Carolina. He is a graduate from The Juilliard School under director Lawrence Rhodes. There he performed works by Alexander Ekman, Nacho Duato, Jerome Robbins, Bronsilava Nijinska, Eliot Feld, Sidra Bell, and Jose Limon. Nathan’s work appeared in Juilliard’s Choreographic Honors concert (2009-2012), and is a recipient of the Hector Zaraspe Award for choreography (2012). In 2011 he placed 1st runner up for the Capezio Award for Choreographic Excellence. He collaborated with composer Jared Miller, and choreographed Richard Walters’ music video, “American Stitches.” Nathan created “Attitude du Cage” with fellow L.A. Dance Project member, has choreography featured on So You Think You Can Dance, and is a Fresh Dance Intensive faculty member. Professionally Nathan has performed the works of Benjamin Millepied, William Forsythe, Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Hiroaki Umeda, Emmanuel Gat, Danielle Agami, Julia Eichten, and Justin Peck in locations such as Los Angeles’ Union Station, the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and the Gardens at the Palace of Versailles.
Francisco Mungamba was born in Madrid, Spain. He received his dance training at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid and at the San Francisco Ballet School. He won 2nd place at the 2010 Prix de Lausanne. In 2011, he joined the San Francisco Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet and was promoted to soloist in 2016. Francisco has danced in works by several prominent 20th and 21st century choreographers, including William Forsythe, Alexei Ratmansky, Justin Peck, John Neumeier, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Christopher Wheeldon, Mark Morris, Wayne McGregor, Serge Lifar, Mikhail Fokine, Kenneth MacMillan, Ashley Page, Yuri Possokhov and Helgi Tomasson. In 2015, he danced in the film of Helgi Tomasson’s Romeo & Juliet (Acrobats) as part of the inaugural season of Lincoln Center at the Movies: Great American Dance. Francisco joined L.A. Dance Project in 2017. Rachelle Rafailedes is a native Ohioan that began her formal dance training at an early age. She has since received her BFA from The Juilliard School in 2009, under the direction of Lawrence Rhodes, where she was awarded the Martha Hill Prize for excellence in leadership and dance. In her career thus far, Rachelle has been fortunate to perform work by renowned choreographers including: Ohad Naharin, Twyla Tharp, Antony Tudor, Merce Cunningham and William Forsythe, as well as guest perform with Keigwin + Company and Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. She was a member of Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion from 2009-2012 and is a Bessie Award winning collaborator for Mr. Abraham’s The Radio Show. Rachelle joined L.A. Dance Project in 2013. Janie Taylor was born in Houston, TX where she began her ballet training at age 2 with Gilbert Rome. She trained at the Giacobbe Academy of Dance in New Orleans from 1993-1996. After attending two years of the summer program at the School of American Ballet, she became a full-time student in the fall of 1996. While a student at SAB she originated a featured role in Christopher Wheeldon’s Soiree Musicale for the Spring workshop performance in June of 1998. She received the Mae L. Wien Award at the SAB Annual Workshop and was invited to become an apprentice with New York City Ballet. A month later, she became a member of NYCB’s corps de ballet. She was promoted to the rank of Soloist in February 2001 and to Principal in 2005. During her career with New York City Ballet she originated roles in ballets choreographed by Peter Martins and Benjamin Millepied. She also performed featured roles in numerous ballets by George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins, as well as pieces by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Susan Stroman, Twyla Tharp, and Miriam Mahdaviani. Ms. Taylor appeared in the film Center Stage directed by Nicholas Hytner which was released in 2000. She retired from the New York City Ballet on March 1, 2014 and began working as a repetiteur setting ballets for Benjamin Millepied and Justin Peck on companies around the world. She also started a career in costume design. Her designs can be seen at the New York City Ballet, and L.A.Dance Project. In December of 2016, Ms. Taylor joined L.A. Dance Project as a dancer.
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Patricia Zhou Born in Canada and raised in the United States, Patricia Zhou started her formal ballet training at the age of 13. She received four years of training at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington D.C., where she graduated with the president’s award — honoring excellence in both academic studies as well as artistry. Patricia competed in a few international competitions including the Prix de Lausanne, which as a prize winner led to an apprenticeship at the Royal Ballet in London and a spotlight segment on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars”. Patricia joined Staatsballett-Berlin in 2012, and has since danced many lead and solo roles in both classical and contemporary pieces, and has been hailed as one of the most interesting and versatile dancers in the company. Patricia joined L.A. Dance Project in 2017. Daisy Jacobson (Apprentice) is a French-American born in Manhattan Beach, CA and a recent graduate from The Juilliard School. She is a 2013 Youth America Grand Prix Finalist, National Young Arts Winner, and Presidential Scholar in the Arts. While attending Juilliard, Daisy performed new works by Takehiro Ueyama, Loni Landon, Zvi Gotheiner, Matthew Neenan, and Benjamin Millepied. She performed leading roles in masterworks such as Merce Cunningham’s BiPed, Jiri Kylian’s Symphony of Psalms, and Nacho Duato’s Por Vos Muero. Daisy attended programs with Houston Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Nederlands Dans Theater, Batsheva/gaga Barcelona, ChuThis, BodyTraffic, Ballet BC/ArtsUmbrella, and Springboard Danse Montreal. During these programs, Daisy was privileged to perform works by Alexei Ratmansky, Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon, Ohad Naharin, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, and Aszure Barton. Her own choreographic works premiered in Juilliard Choreographic Honors 2015 and 2016. Daisy joined L.A. Dance Project as an apprentice in 2017.
class with New York City Ballet at Saratoga Springs. In November of 1993, he was invited to join New York City Ballet’s corps de ballet. Mr. Marcovici was promoted to the rank of soloist in 1998 and to principal dancer in May 2002. Mr. Marcovici has performed featured roles in numerous ballets by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins and additional works by David Parsons and Lynne Taylor-Corbett. Mr. Marcovici also originated roles in Robbins’ Brandenburg and West Side Story Suite as well as in works by Peter Martins, Mauro Bigonzetti, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Robert Lafosse, Miriam Mahdaviani, Benjamin Millepied, Angelin Preljocaj, Twyla Tharp and Christopher Wheeldon. Mr. Marcovici retired from New York City Ballet in March 2014. He worked as a ballet master with Paris Opera Ballet from 2014 - 2016. He currently works at L.A. Dance Project as a Ballet Master and sets ballets for Benjamin Millepied on ballet companies around the world.
Miranda Wattier (Apprentice) was born in Long Beach, California. At the age of nine, she began her dance training at Dance West in Los Alamitos, California. In 2014, Miranda enrolled as a student at the Coburn Dance Academy. She studied at Colburn for three years under the leadership of former New York City Ballet principal dancers Jenifer Ringer and James Fayette. During her time as a Colburn student, Miranda performed works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and originated a featured role in a ballet by Benjamin Millepied. Miranda has attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet, Boston Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet. She joined L.A. Dance Project in 2017 as an apprentice. Sebastien Marcovici, Ballet Master Born and raised in Paris, France, Sébastien Marcovici began his ballet training at age eight with local teachers, and at age 12 he enrolled at the School of the Paris Opéra Ballet. During the summer of 1993, while studying with Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride at the Chautauqua School of Dance, Mr. Marcovici was invited by Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins to take Company vi
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Administration
L.A. Dance Project L.A. Dance Project is a platform for the development, creation, support and presentation of world-class dance in Los Angeles. Comprised of an internationally acclaimed dance company, a brand new performance space in Los Angeles’ burgeoning Arts District and a program of media initiatives, LADP promotes dance not only as an artistic practice but as a way of being in the world. LADP seeks to foster dance-centered artistic collaborations across all disciplines, cultures and communities in Los Angeles and around the globe.
Artistic Director, Benjamin Millepied Executive Director, Andrew Horwitz Director of Legal and Business Affairs, Christopher Macdougall Ballet Master, Sebastien Marcovici Development Director, Alexander Barrera General Manager, Rebecca Misselwitz Operations Manager, Chris Tynan Communications Manager, Brian Carbine Administrative Assistant, Ama Gyamerah Grant Writer, Tiffany Batifort
Since its founding, L.A. Dance Project’s company has toured and given master classes at international venues and festivals including the Holland Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival, La Maison de la Danse, the Saitama Arts Center, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Shanghai and Bejing Opera House and Theatre du Chatelet. In the US, the company has performed at venues including Jacob’s Pillow, Brooklyn Academy of Music and New York City Center. In its home city of Los Angeles the company has performed at The Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, MOCA, Union Station, The Theatre at Ace Hotel, and The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
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