L.A. Dance Project

A boundary expanding dance company. 12 outstanding dancers + innovative repertory + #LADPdigital dance platform for all. AD @b_millepied.

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

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[Art in America @ArtinAmerica]

From the Archives: Choreographer Benjamin Millepied's live-streamed performances with @LADanceProject disrupt the idea that dance can only be appreciated live. https://t.co/6wuPrEtOpX

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world
+ Mary Oliver

Image: In rehearsal for @benjaminmillepied's new work. @lorrinsees for LA Dance Project. Los Angeles, 2022.​​​​​​​​
@andyakhio #barbarakruger #chatalet​​​​​�

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

New work.

Image: In rehearsal for @benjaminmillepied's new work. @lorrinsees for LA Dance Project. Los Angeles, 2022.
@andyakhio #barbarakruger #chatalet

#wemovetomoveyou
#newwork
#inthestudio
#artisticdirector

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

The one real requirement of life: an openness to what is lovely among all the rest that isn't.
+ Sylvia Plath

Image: @nayomivanbrunt. @mimihaddon for @rodarte with @ladanceproject.

#wemovetomoveyou
#fridayfeels
#sylviaplath
#rodatre
@kateandlauramulleavy

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

Peace is the dream of a shared human soul
that we build every day with forgiveness and kindness and hope.

Image: @shushuagogo shot by @lorrinsees for L.A. Dance Project. In rehearsal for @benjaminmillepied's new work. Los Angeles, 2022.

#wemovetomoveyou
#peace
#love
#kindess

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

APRIL dates for Artistic Director Benjamin Millepied's new work are SOLD OUT. But it's not too late! Due to overwhelming demand, we're adding additional dates this JUNE. SIGN UP for early access: https://t.co/E7qrgGFJkJ
@B_Millepied @AndyAkiho
@sandboxperc #carolineshaw

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.
+ Bell Hooks

#wemovetomoveyou
#love
#belonging
#

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

It's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.
+ Clarice Lispector

Image: Dancer @daphodilfern and @daisykate_j in rehearsal for @benjaminmillepied's new work. @lorrinsees for L.A. Dance Project. Los Angeles 2022.

#wemovetomoveyou
#ladanceproject
#sundaysoul

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

Art is a wound turned into light.
+Georges Braque

#wemovetomoveyou
#artasanantidote
#artheals
#artislove
#artbreak
#benjaminmillepied
#GeorgesBraque

Film: Excerpted from @BenjaminMilepied's dance work, I fall, I flow, I melt. Music Johann Sebastian Bach. Costumes @alessandrosar

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

Final Curve
When you turn the corner
And you run into yourself
Then you know that you have turned
All the corners that are left.
+Langston Hughs

#wemovetomoveyou
#dance
#danceishope
#danceislove
#ladp

Image Credit: Unknown

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.
+ Kim Gordon

Where do you live?

#wemovetomoveyou
#fantastylife
#LADPcollaborator
#newwork
#inprocess #instudio with @dimitrich

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
+ Emily Dickinson

Image: Dancer @daisykate_j by @lorrinsees. 2022.

#wemovetomoveyou
#dancer
#ladanceproject
#EmilyDickinson
#womenshistorymonth

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

New Benjamin Millepied 2022.
In process at LADP.
@benjaminmillepied @andyakiho #barbarakruger

Preview performances for LA audiences coming soon.

Iin frame @david_adrian and @shhhrrera
All Images @lorrinsees for L.A. Dance Project. Los Angeles, 2022.

#wemovetomoveyou
#newwork
#

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is -- it is to imagine what's possible.
+ bell hooks

#wemovetomoveyou
#imagine
#bellhooks
#LAdancers
#outtake

Film clip: LADP dancers in Griffith Park. 2018.

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

Listen to American Ballet Theater Principal @mistyonpointe interview with LADP Artistic Director @B_Millepied to discuss dance, the life of a professional dancer, and her career...Listen to the full interview on #LADPDigital. https://t.co/Jl7tdiDzj6

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

LADP in the studio with @BenjaminMillepied.

L.A. Dance Project dancers in rehearsal for @benjaminmillepied's new work.
Music @andyakiho. Film credit: @Lorrinsees for @ladanceproject. Los Angeles 2021.

#wemovetomoveyou
#BTS
#newwork
#newdance
#inprocess
#benjaminmillepied
#chor

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

Let that flag fly.
#friday

Hungarian dancer Lila Nicolska in the Acropolis. Yelizaveta Nikolska. 1920.

#wemovetomoveyou
#dancehistory
#dancephotography

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

Instead of looking at things, try looking between things.
+ John Baldessari

Image: Barbara Morgan
#wemovetomoveyou
#movementinfim
#art
#barbaramorgan
#dancer
#ballet
#blackandwhitephotography
#JohnBaldessari

[L.A. Dance Project @LADanceProject]

all of this, calm and reasonable as it was, made out of ordinary things as it was, was the truth now; beauty, that was the truth now. Beauty was everywhere.
+ Virginia Woolf

Image: @daisykate_j Los Angeles, 2018. @joshsrose.
#wemovetomoveyou
#dancer
#beautyistruth
#artistruth
#d