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Founded during Los Angeles Ballet’s 2009/20210 Season, the Los Angeles Ballet Guild has two arms: Patrons of the Guild (fundraising) and Corps de Guild (volunteer). Membership at both levels is critical to the health of LAB, with the Guild providing a vital link between Los Angeles Ballet leadership and the broader Southern California community. The Guild is philanthropic, creative, entrepreneurial, and industrious. All are welcome to become involved. Membership Home / Membership / Membership Circles Fall in love with dance. LAB’s Membership Circles are donor benefits designed to build a community through a shared love of ballet and to provide a deeper appreciation of the artform through unique experiences and exclusive content. With backstage tours, visits to company classes, and access to digital newsletters, there is something for everyone. We hope you join today by making a tax-deductible membership gift. Your support inspires us; in return, we strive to inspire you! Why Give As a member, you also ensure the transformative power of ballet remains accessible to underserved communities across LA County. LAB donates 10% of tickets each season, free of charge, to over 50 local social service organizations and offers monthly free dance classes to all age groups and levels taught by LAB company dancers. With your membership support, we can expand our efforts to bring the magic of dance to this city of angels! We hope you join today and enjoy our exclusive membership offerings curated just for you! BECOME A MEMBER TODAY! VIEW LEVELS & BENEFITS 2024 Membership Event Calendar March Ballet Salon Barak & Bowers Member Newsletter - Winter April Members Only Pricing to Annual Gala May Firebird/Serenade Studio Rehearsal June Member Newsletter - Summer September Season 19 Welcome Dinner October View Company Class Member Newsletter - Fall November Members Only Pricing to Nutcracker Tea! December The Nutcracker Final Rehearsal & Champagne Reception @ Dolby Theater The Nutcracker Backstage Experience @ Dolby Theater Questions Contact Danielle Bearden-Mead Director of Development at 310.477.7411 x 1006 or Dbeardenmead@losangelesballet.org LAB’s Membership Circles are a tax-deductible donation, we do not offer refunds. LOS ANGELES BALLET Repertoire Learn about the comprehensive and varied seasons of Los Angeles Ballet since its debut in 2006. Repertoire includes Balanchine masterworks, stylistically meticulous classical ballets, commissioned and contemporary works by renowned local and international choreographers. VIEW REPERTOIRE LOS ANGELES BALLET History Read the history of the Company and learn about LAB’s Leadership, Mission, and Community Outreach initiatives. LAB HISTORY

Underwritten by Wachovia Bank, the event showcased Los Angeles Ballet's commitment to serving LA's underprivileged communities through its outreach program, POP! Power of Performance. Home / News / New Item Los Angeles Ballet teams with LA Magazine, Wachovia Bank, LA’s Best & Warner Brothers Studios for a Holiday Extravaganza December 1, 2007 Company News from the Staff at LAB In other roles, Grace McLoughlin danced Effie with sweet innocence. James Li was Gurn, James’ best friend, a naïf who winds up marrying Effie after James’ disappearance. (Peter Snow will take over the role in two of the three remaining performances.) Andrew Brader and Drew Grant were the friends.

Since its debut in 2006, Los Angeles Ballet’s Outreach program, Power of Performance! (POP!), has provided a minimum of 10% of tickets to all performances, free of charge, to Los Angeles County’s disadvantaged children and their parents or guardians, military personnel and their dependents, and non-profit senior organizations. Power of Performance Home / Power of Performance / Los Angeles Ballet’s Power of Performance (POP!) Since its debut in 2006, Los Angeles Ballet’s Power of Performance! (POP!) Outreach program has provided 10% of tickets to LAB performances, free of charge, to Los Angeles County community partner organizations that provide services and support underserved communities all across the County. Some of our participating community partners: Veteran Tickets Foundation Amity Foundation Union Rescue Mission Domestic Abuse Center Create Now LA County Dept of Probation Cancer Support Community Redondo Beach Performing Arts For All Keen LA PATH Ventures Everybody Dance! Book POP! for Your Organization BOOK YOUR ORGANIZATION Contact: Laura Chachich, Director of Education Programs (310) 477-7411 outreach@losangelesballet.org

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Los Angeles Ballet debuted in December 2006 with its original production of The Nutcracker, choreographed by founding Co-Artistic Directors Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary. LAB offers a stellar classical and contemporary repertory. In 2009 the Los Angeles Ballet Guild, LAB’s free outreach program, was established to share the gift of dance with a wide audience, including underserved communities. History Home / History / LAB History Los Angeles Ballet debuted in December 2006 with its original production of The Nutcracker . Choreographed by Founding Co-Artistic Directors Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary, it featured a fresh take on the classic, complemented by a Southern California-themed set designed by Catherine Kanner. LAB’s repertoire was then focused on Balanchine masterpieces and Bournonville ballets as imparted by Christensen and Neary, Artistic Directors Emeriti. As a répétiteur for The George Balanchine Trust, Ms. Neary, staged and directed LAB’s interpretations of his masterworks. In 2009 LAB presented Bournonville’s La Sylphide , its first full-length classical story ballet after The Nutcracker . Under the artistic direction of Christensen and Neary, LAB also performed classical ballet standards such as Giselle , Swan Lake , Don Quixote , Romeo and Juliet , and The Sleeping Beauty , and commissioned 15 new works, two developed out of LAB’s Choreographic Workshop. In 2022, LAB welcomed Melissa Barak as its first ever solo Artistic Director. Barak’s first full-length ballet for LAB was 2023’s highly acclaimed Memoryhouse , a dramatic and emotional abstract ballet composed of vignettes commemorating the Holocaust and performed at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica. The 2023/2024 Season is Barak’s inaugural programmed season and will include another original work and world premiere by her. The Los Angeles Ballet Center is located on L.A.’s Westside. The Center’s 12,000 square feet encompass three dance studios, LAB’s administrative offices, a home box office, physical therapy services, a wardrobe department and costume storage. LAB’s Power of Performance! (POP!) outreach program has provided 50,000+ free tickets to underserved and disadvantaged children, seniors, veterans and their families, through collaboration with community partners. An additional LAB outreach program, A Chance to Dance , offers a monthly Community Day at the Los Angeles Ballet Center, where all ages are invited to take free ballet, jazz, and other dance classes and workshops, and to learn about fitness and nutrition from company dancers, staff, and physical therapists. A Chance to Dance Community Day attracts over 100 participants to each event, and fosters the development of a personal relationship between the artists of Los Angeles Ballet and the greater LA County community. LOS ANGELES BALLET Repertoire Learn about the comprehensive and varied seasons of Los Angeles Ballet since its debut in 2006. Repertoire includes stunning classical ballets, exceptional stagings of Balanchine repertory, and relevant works by many of today’s most innovative dance-makers. VIEW REPERTOIRE ABOUT Los Angeles Ballet Founded in 2004 by Artistic Directors Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary, and Executive Director Emerita Julie Whittaker, Los Angeles Ballet is known for its superb stagings of the Balanchine repertory, stylistically meticulous classical ballets, and its commitment to new works. LAB has become recognized as a world-class ballet company. LEARN MORE

I love ballet. I love the grace, the magic, the sheer beauty of it all. But, once in a while, ballet isn’t merely attractive young dancers in white tutus, assembling in lovely tableaus to strains of Mozart and Delibes. Home / News / New Item Los Angeles Ballet's 'New Wave LA' A Company for the 21st Century May 21, 2010 Culturespot LA by Penny Orloff I love ballet. I love the grace, the magic, the sheer beauty of it all. But, once in a while, ballet isn’t merely attractive young dancers in white tutus, assembling in lovely tableaus to strains of Mozart and Delibes. Once in a while, ballet is the tumultuous and heartstopping and transformative theatrical experience I had on May 15, when Los Angeles Ballet presented “New Wave LA” at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center. Back in the 1950s my ex-ballerina mother hoarded her housekeeping money in order to take my sisters and me to the ballet. Having fallen in love with Tchaikovsky and Petipa at a young age, she favored classic “white” ballets like “Swan Lake” and other traditional works of the late 1890s and early 20th century. It wasn’t until I relocated to New York in the 1970s that I experienced what decades in the New World had done to an elitist European amusement. George Balanchine had revolutionized classical ballet, working with Stravinsky, Hindemith, and other giants of 20th-century music and creating a uniquely American style reflective of a post-war, increasingly urban culture. My mother found it disturbing, but I was an avid member of the young audience that flocked to the New York State Theatre, taking ownership of this suddenly relevant iteration of a traditional art form. In the 35 years since, I have seen the new audiences of the ’70s grow old and gray – like myself. Except for the young mothers of each new crop of baby ballerinas, today the majority of my fellow balletomanes – like the aging devotees of classical music and opera – are on the far side of the hill, a disturbing percentage of our decreasing numbers rigidly clinging to an increasingly irrelevant artistic sensibility. Or so I thought. Last week I watched, incredulous, as the lobby of the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center filled with a hyperactive horde of tattooed and pierced twenty- and thirty-somethings, eager – nay, impatient – for the unveiling of the four world premieres featured in Los Angeles Ballet’s production of “New Wave LA.” Inside the theater the electricity was palpable, the buzz deafening. No polite hand clapping greeted the appearance of co-artistic directors Colleen Neary and Thordal Christensen. Instead, cheers worthy of European soccer erupted as the couple stepped on stage to welcome their audience. Unfamiliar with ballet, most of this young crowd has discovered dance through “American Idol,” “Dancing With the Stars,” and “So You Think You Can Dance,” where passionate demonstration has supplanted decorous appreciation. Largely ignorant of the current crop of TV dance shows, I was not acquainted with the work of Mandy Moore, Travis Wall, and Sonya Tayeh, all of “So You Think You Can Dance.” Together with MYOKYO founder and choreographer Josie Walsh, these young artists represent a new voice, new dance vocabularies, performed to new music – with nary a tutu in sight. Mandy Moore’s “Wink” opens the show, dealing with the tangled web of Internet dating “and all the awkwardly beautiful moments along the path to finding true love,” she writes in the program notes. The curtain rises on a lineup of 10 characters who deliver “profile” introductions directly to the audience: “Hi, I’m Chelsea…” “I love walks on the beach…” “I’m an Aries…” The music by Cirque Eloise underscores Moore’s complex interactions. She expertly weaves the daring with the lyrical, the humorous with a thread of melancholy, as richly detailed ensembles give way to a quasi-traditional pas de deux. The audience, unused to the capabilities of bona fide ballet dances, rewards individual virtuosity and group precision with a torrent of screams and applause – and just like that, we’re not in Kansas, anymore. After a brief intermission, choreographer and former international ballerina Josie Walsh, founder of MYOKYO Renegade Rock Ballets, offers “Transmutation.” The specially commissioned, driving rock score by Walsh’s husband, Paul Rivera, Jr., pulses and throbs as three couples act out the visceral “interplay between the male and female energies” in a tour de force display of physical exertion. Walsh told me that the greatest challenge of this piece was the sheer endurance factor for the dancers. Pressed to their limits, all six reveal uncommon depth of personality and character. Tiny Grace McLoughlin, especially, unleashes a raw, wild abandon. She is like an animal possessed. Drew Grant, Andrew Brader, and Alexander Forck are individually and collectively astonishing, as they negotiate the tremendous athleticism of Walsh’s huge compound leaps and spectacular lifts. The audience screams itself hoarse, until shocked into pin-drop silence by the transcendent finale. Travis Wall’s “Reflect. Affect. Carry On…” is a time-bending, nonlinear love story set to Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” U2’s “With or Without You,” and Sigur Ros’ “Samskeyti.” His star is rapidly rising on the contemporary dance scene; nevertheless he is a master of classical ballet technique, infusing his sui generis style with enough tradition to satisfy the most rabid haters of the unfamiliar. Through a personal vocabulary of movement, Wall creates a surreal dreamscape of desire, memory, yearning. One cannot begin to guess what this 22-year-old phenom may become. The dancers execute the unique combinations with total commitment. At one point, their meticulous and precise delivery of an extended fugue provokes a long, audible gasp from the previously vociferous audience – literally taking our breath away. Sonya Tayeh’s “the back and forth” is a sexy, wild ride of a finale to music of the Paris Gotan Trio, Björk, and tango king Astor Piazzolla. The alchemy of Tayeh’s quirky, signature style of “combat jazz” melded with virtuoso ballet elements whips the packed house into a frenzy. The bullfight-inspired dance features unexpected, increasingly dramatic interactions between the bare-chested men and flamenco-clad women. This is dance as unbridled passion, dance as spectacle, dance as Theatre. The audience was on its feet, screaming even before the curtain came down. The dancers took a bow to deafening roars. The ovation surged again with the appearances of Neary, Christensen, and the four choreographers. After the show, hundreds of fans stood in long lines to get autographs and have their photographs taken with the young choreographers. I’d conclude that Neary and Christensen’s experiment bodes well for the future of classical ballet. Catch Los Angeles Ballet’s “New Wave LA” on May 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the Alex Theatre, Glendale; on May 29 at 2 p.m. (just added) and 7:30 p.m. (sold out) and May 30 at 2 p.m. (sold out) at the Broad Stage, Santa Monica. Tickets and information: (310) 998-7782 or www.losangelesballet.org . DOWNLOAD PDF

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As Los Angeles Ballet celebrates its 20th Anniversary, the 2026 Gala will be a landmark evening honoring the company’s extraordinary journey — from its founding vision to its place today as a premier American ballet company. Gala 2026 Seating & Benefits Director $ 100,000 100,000$ Valid for one year PURCHASE Three VIP tables for ten Recognition on step & repeat, from the stage, and all print Diamond Gala Tribute Premium orchestra-level admission to LAB’s Giselle Maestro $ 50,000 50,000$ Valid for one month PURCHASE Two VIP tables for ten Maestro-level recognition in print & web materials Diamond Gala Tribute Premium orchestra-level admission to LAB’s Giselle Arabesque $ 25,000 25,000$ Valid for one month PURCHASE One VIP table for ten Arabesque–level recognition in print & web materials Ruby Gala Tribute Premium orchestra-level admission to LAB’s Giselle Grand Jeté $ 15,000 15,000$ Valid for one month PURCHASE One table for ten Grand Jeté–level recognition in select print & web materials Sapphire Gala Tribute Admission to LAB’s Giselle at The Music Center Grande Pirouette $ 6,000 6,000$ Valid for one month PURCHASE Seating for four Grande Pirouette–level recognition in select print & web Emerald Gala Tribute Pas de Deux $ 3,000 3,000$ Valid for one month PURCHASE Seating for two Pas De Deux–level recognition in select print & web Topaz Gala Tribute Premier Individual Ticket $ 2,500 2,500$ Valid for one month PURCHASE Premier seating for one - guaranteed floor seating Individual Ticket $ 1,000 1,000$ Valid for one month PURCHASE Seating for one Amount $1,000 Individual Ticket Individual Ticket $1,000 $1,500 Premier Individual Ticket Premier Individual Ticket $1,500 $3,000 Pas de Deux Pas de Deux $3,000 $6,000 Grande Pirouette Grande Pirouette $6,000 $15,000 Grand Jeté Grand Jeté $15,000 $25,000 Arabesque Arabesque $25,000 $50,000 Maestro Maestro $50,000 $100,000 Director Director $100,000 0/100 Comment (optional) Donate $1,029 I'd like to add $29 to cover transaction fees.

This page will list the various auditions and job openings that the Los Angeles Ballet hosts and has available. Employment Home / Employment / Marketing Manager LAB is seeking a Marketing Manager to join a collaborative and dedicated staff of a premiere performing arts organization. In collaboration with the Executive Director and Artistic Director, the Marketing Manager will implement brand-building marketing and communications plans that drive revenue, build attendance and long-term patron loyalty while raising LAB’s brand position among local, regional and national peer organizations. HOW TO APPLY Chief Development Officer The Chief Development Officer will have the opportunity to work with passionate, engaged leadership, a dynamic artistic team, and dedicated staff while being an important member of the growth team. This position will also direct the evolution of the Development department to align with the Company’s near and long-term goals. HOW TO APPLY LOS ANGELES BALLET Repertoire Learn about the comprehensive and varied seasons of Los Angeles Ballet since its debut in 2006. Repertoire includes stunning classical ballets, exceptional stagings of Balanchine repertory, and relevant works by many of today’s most innovative dance-makers. VIEW REPERTOIRE 2024/2025 SEASON Dancers Los Angeles Ballet presents a company of outstanding dancers from local communities and around the world. Learn about each of LAB’s dance artists. LEARN MORE

Los Angeles Ballet’s public relations team is headed by Shari Mesulam of The Mesulam Group. Public Relations Home / Public Relations / Public Relations For Public Relations inquiries and information, please contact Shari Mesulam , The Mesulam Group shari@themesulamgroup.com Company Press Releases Press Releases READ NOW 2023/2024 SEASON Press Photos REQUEST ACCESS