L.A. Dance Project

From the Archives: Choreographer Benjamin Millepied's live-streamed performances with @LADanceProject disrupt the idea that dance can only be appreciated live. artnews.com/art-in-america…

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​​​​​�

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

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

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

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: lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/Nwq5JMB/new… @B_Millepied @AndyAkiho @sandboxperc #carolineshaw

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 #

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

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

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

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

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself. + Emily Dickinson Image: Dancer @daisykate_j by @lorrinsees. 2022. #wemovetomoveyou #dancer #ladanceproject #EmilyDickinson #womenshistorymonth

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 #

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.

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. now.ladanceproject.org/videos/misty-c…

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

Let that flag fly. #friday Hungarian dancer Lila Nicolska in the Acropolis. Yelizaveta Nikolska. 1920. #wemovetomoveyou #dancehistory #dancephotography

Instead of looking at things, try looking between things. + John Baldessari Image: Barbara Morgan #wemovetomoveyou #movementinfim #art #barbaramorgan #dancer #ballet #blackandwhitephotography #JohnBaldessari

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