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Los Angeles Ballet presents a company of outstanding dancers from local communities and around the world. LAB dance artists master classical as well as contemporary techniques. Chloe Oronoz Hometown Orange County, CA Seasons with LAB 1 Season with LAB Chloe began her ballet training at age eight at the Nouveau Chamber Ballet with Lois Ellyn. In 2013, she continued her instruction at the Anaheim Ballet School under the direction of Larry and Sarma Rosenberg. Under their guidance, Chloe was given many opportunities; most notably, she was a finalist in the Youth America Grand Prix and a Music Center Spotlight merit awardee. In 2020, Chloe was invited to train at the Colburn School’s Dance Academy under the direction of former New York City Ballet principal dancers, Jenifer Ringer and James Fayette. Chloe was privileged to be trained by outstanding instructors, including Silas Farley and Janie Taylor, as well as guest artists such as Alonzo King. Her repertoire included principal and soloist roles in George Balanchine’s Divertimento No. 15 , Jerome Robbins’ Antique Epigraphs , and Justin Peck’s Pulcinella Variations . Chloe joined LAB as a Trainee in 2024 and was promoted to the Company in 2025.

Los Angeles Ballet presents a company of outstanding dancers from local communities and around the world. LAB dance artists master classical as well as contemporary techniques. Ashley Chung Hometown Seasons with LAB 1 Season with LAB Available shortly

Los Angeles Ballet presents a company of outstanding dancers from local communities and around the world. LAB dance artists master classical as well as contemporary techniques. Anna Jacobs Hometown Far Hills, NJ Seasons with LAB 4 Seasons with LAB Anna began her training at the New Jersey School of Ballet. She joined the School of American Ballet at fourteen and attended summer programs at Miami City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Boston Ballet, and Philadelphia Ballet. Anna has danced repertoire by Raiford Rogers, Miro Magloire, and Melissa Barak. Performance highlights include the first movement principle in George Balanchine’s Symphony in C and Scherzo à la Russe . Anna joined the Los Angeles Ballet in 2022.

Three couples are negotiating a series of head-to-head moves, rapid-fi re turns and daring leaps to cranked-up tango music of Astor Piazzolla. At fi rst glance they could be contestants in a postmodern dance marathon. ‘New Wave LA’...is heavily influenced by 'So You Think You Can Dance’ choreographers. May 9, 2010 Los Angeles Times by Victoria Looseleaf – Special to the Los Angeles Times Three couples are negotiating a series of head-to-head moves, rapid-fi re turns and daring leaps to cranked-up tango music of Astor Piazzolla. At fi rst glance they could be contestants in a postmodern dance marathon. In reality, they are rehearsing a new piece for Los Angeles Ballet’s fi nal program of its fourth season. The benefi cent task mistress calling the shots is choreographer Sonya Tayeh, the heavily tattooed 33-year-old known for her work on Fox’s hit television show “So You Think You Can Dance.” “I want you to feel the energy in your temples,” says Tayeh, her rhinestone-dotted ponytail sprouting beneath a purple-streaked neo-Mohawk. “I need to see that connection.” Tayeh’s piece is one of four world premieres commissioned by LAB’s husband-and-wife co-artistic directors, Colleen Neary and Thordal Christensen. Premiering Saturday at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, the program has been dubbed “New Wave LA “ and features numbers by “So You Think” choreographers Travis Wall and Mandy Moore and a work by Josie Walsh, an erstwhile ballerina who danced with Joffrey Ballet and Zurich Ballet and who made a work for LAB’s fi rst choreographic workshop last year. The program represents a departure from the young troupe’s usual mix of George Balanchine and story ballets such as “La Sylphide.” “These choreographers are young, they’re new, they’re exciting,” says Neary from her offi ce in LAB’s 4,000- square-foot Westside studios. A former New York City Ballet dancer, her svelte body still Balanchine-worthy at 57, Neary says she intended to showcase young choreographers from the start. “We’re building this company from a creative place, where L.A. people who are in the arts can come and create.” Christensen says: “Some of the choreographers haven’t really worked on pointe before, but that’s the uniqueness of a ballet company — the pointe shoes. How wonderful to be able to bring some of these more commercial choreographers in to classically trained dancers and also give the dancers a chance to do something different.” Straddling the commercial and concert world is not totally foreign to Los Angeles Ballet. A pair of its dancers performed on Fox’s dance show in 2008. And Christensen, who danced with Royal Danish Ballet and was also artistic director of that company before landing in L.A. in 2002 with Neary, choreographed a number for Melissa Sandvig, the show’s “naughty ballerina,” last season. “So You Think You Can Dance” creator, producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe (the new season begins May 27), says it’s win-win. “It’s important for Los Angeles Ballet to be seen on the cutting edge and show they are not elitist. And working with L.A. Ballet certainly benefi ts the choreographers from the opposite direction — they’re going to have to adapt their styles to a certain degree, to make the dancers look good.” With the exception of Walsh, the choreographers are accustomed to making three- to fi ve-minute works instead of meatier 20-minute fare. Detroit-born Tayeh, who graduated from Wayne State University with a bachelor’s degree in dance, relishes the challenge. “We only have two days of rehearsal for ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ which makes us have to get the point across right away. Working with L.A. Ballet is a nice change, but I’m trying to maintain that same sense of the way I move by being athletic with the pointe shoes.” At 22, Wall, who grew up in his mother’s Virginia Beach dance studio and won the Capezio A.C.E. Award as choreographer of the year 2009, is the baby of the bunch. Having danced on the recent Oscars’ telecast, as well as assisting producer-choreographer Adam Shankman, the tattooed dynamo with the bleached hair also choreographed a number for NYCB principal Tiler Peck for a recent appearance on “Dancing With the Stars.” Wall’s work is set to a pastiche of music, including a string version of U2’s “With or Without You.” His eight dancers are swaying to an elegiac violin melody before they begin a sequence of canon-like moves. Scrutinizing his charges and correcting a misplaced arm, Wall instructs them: “You’re telling a story. It’s a broken picture that then gets back to the way it was.” Wall says he’s used to working with contemporary dancers, but having the luxury to expand an idea is a welcome assignment. “Sometimes choreographers get wrapped up in ideas and average viewers won’t get it. I’m making sure my ideas will be visible to the naked eye.” A native Coloradan, Moore, 33, has performed on television shows as well as having made dances for “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance.” Her work for Los Angeles Ballet, set to music by Cirque Eloize, features four couples executing whimsical unisons, with the girls in soft ballet slippers. “We have a tendency as dancers to compartmentalize,” says a bubbly Moore, “but movement is movement. It doesn’t matter if you stand at the barre or put on tap shoes. I think of somebody who’s used to only going to ballet performances, to see the work of Travis, Josie and me, it’s going to be thought-provoking.” As for the company’s dancers, they seem to thrive on the new movement vocabularies. Andrew Brader, 24, has been with L.A. Ballet since its inception and is in works by Walsh and Tayeh. “Sonya’s movement is not as familiar as what we’re used to. There’s a rawness to it, and getting it into the body is at fi rst uncomfortable, but she keeps pushing and it becomes ingrained. Josie’s movement is more accented. There’s more intention behind it.” Walsh, 38, has her own company, MYOKYO. She’s produced several full-evening works that are a mash-up of pointe shoes, aerial dances and industrial rock music, composed by her husband, Paul Rivera. She calls it “renegade ballet.” Walsh’s premiere for six dancers, “Transmutation,” while making use of classical technique, also features thrusting tango gyrations, huge grand plies on pointe and sexy split leg lifts — all to Rivera’s pulsating score. Says Walsh: “I’m constantly breaking my own barriers and exploring new movement, new dynamics. When it comes to my work with a ballet company, it’s defi nitely harder-hitting.” Los Angeles Ballet continues to dial up the heat. Of their recent all-Balanchine program, the Los Angeles Times wrote that the troupe “entered a new phase ... its dancers showing increasing mastery with a repertory that, while familiar, is unforgiving.” How they ultimately handle unfamiliar choreography, albeit works tailor-made for their bodies, will prove revealing, as will the dances themselves. “You want a choreographer to have ideas,” says Christensen, “and to be able to give them to the dancers. These choreographers are inventive and a good mix. We also like their moods in transition with each other.” “So You Think You Can Dance” notwithstanding, “We’re not here to do reality shows,” Christensen says. “We’re here to produce art.” calendar@latimes.com DOWNLOAD PDF Home / News / New Item

Swan Lake 2015 LAB Ensemble Allynne Noelle & Ulrik Birkkjaer Allynne Noelle & Rainer Krensetter Allyssa Bross, Kenta Shimizu & LAB Ensemble Chelsea Paige Johnston, Christopher Revels & LAB Ensemble Julia Cinquemani & Allyssa Bross Rainer Krensetter & Allynne Noelle Kenta Shimizu & Julia Cinquemani Allynne Noelle & Ulrik Birkkjaer Kenta Shimizu & Allyssa Bross Allynne Noelle & LAB Ensemble LAB Ensemble Julia Cinquemani & Kenta Shimizu Allynne Noelle & LAB Ensemble LAB Ensemble Allynne Noelle & Ulrik Birkkjaer Allynne Noelle & Rainer Krensetter Allyssa Bross, Kenta Shimizu & LAB Ensemble Chelsea Paige Johnston, Christopher Revels & LAB Ensemble Julia Cinquemani & Allyssa Bross Rainer Krensetter & Allynne Noelle Kenta Shimizu & Julia Cinquemani Allynne Noelle & Ulrik Birkkjaer Kenta Shimizu & Allyssa Bross Allynne Noelle & LAB Ensemble LAB Ensemble Julia Cinquemani & Kenta Shimizu Allynne Noelle & LAB Ensemble LAB Ensemble Allynne Noelle & Ulrik Birkkjaer Allynne Noelle & Rainer Krensetter Allyssa Bross, Kenta Shimizu & LAB Ensemble Chelsea Paige Johnston, Christopher Revels & LAB Ensemble Julia Cinquemani & Allyssa Bross Rainer Krensetter & Allynne Noelle Kenta Shimizu & Julia Cinquemani Allynne Noelle & Ulrik Birkkjaer Kenta Shimizu & Allyssa Bross Allynne Noelle & LAB Ensemble LAB Ensemble Julia Cinquemani & Kenta Shimizu Allynne Noelle & LAB Ensemble Christensen and Neary after Petipa and Ivanov / Tchaikovsky Previous Gallery Next Gallery All photos by Reed Hutchinson Click on image for a fullscreen presentation.

Los Angeles Ballet, founded in 2006, marked its latest stage of artistic growth by mounting a handsome production of “La Sylphide” Saturday at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, with period sets and costumes borrowed from the Houston Ballet. Balanchine, Backhaus...Meet Broad March 20, 2009 FineArtsLA.com by Penny Orloff Los Angeles Ballet, founded in 2006, marked its latest stage of artistic growth by mounting a handsome production of “La Sylphide” Saturday at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, with period sets and costumes borrowed from the Houston Ballet. (Performances continue over the next two weekends at other venues.) (Freud Playhouse, UCLA, May 23 and 24, and at the Alex Theater in Glendale, May 30.) DOWNLOAD PDF Home / News / New Item

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The Nutcracker 2013 Mia Katz & Nicholas de la Vega Bianca Bulle Zheng Hua Li Snowflakes Ensemble Helena Thordal-Christensen, David Block & Nicholas de la Vega Julia Cinquemani & Alexander Castillo Allynne Noelle & Ulrik Birkkjaer Mia Katz & Nicholas de la Vega Bianca Bulle Zheng Hua Li Snowflakes Ensemble Helena Thordal-Christensen, David Block & Nicholas de la Vega Julia Cinquemani & Alexander Castillo Allynne Noelle & Ulrik Birkkjaer Mia Katz & Nicholas de la Vega Bianca Bulle Zheng Hua Li Snowflakes Ensemble Helena Thordal-Christensen, David Block & Nicholas de la Vega Julia Cinquemani & Alexander Castillo Allynne Noelle & Ulrik Birkkjaer Mia Katz & Nicholas de la Vega Bianca Bulle Zheng Hua Li Snowflakes Ensemble Helena Thordal-Christensen, David Block & Nicholas de la Vega Julia Cinquemani & Alexander Castillo Allynne Noelle & Ulrik Birkkjaer Christensen and Neary / Tchaikovsky Previous Gallery Next Gallery All photos by Reed Hutchinson Click on image for a fullscreen presentation.

Los Angeles Ballet presents a company of outstanding dancers from local communities and around the world. LAB dance artists master classical as well as contemporary techniques. Julianne Kinasiewicz Hometown Portage, IN Seasons with LAB 7 Seasons with LAB Julianne began dancing at age four at the Ruth Page School of Dance, where she trained under Patricia Klekovic, Dolores Lipinski Long, and Birute Barodicaite. After attending two summer courses at The School of American Ballet, she was invited to join them as a full-time student in New York. At SAB, Julianne danced in many lecture demonstrations and donor performances, as well as performances of "Scenes de Ballet" and "The Sleeping Beauty" with the New York City Ballet. In her graduation workshop performance, she danced a Principal role in George Balanchine's "Western Symphony" and led roles in Justin Peck's "In Creases". Julianne was also awarded the Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise. At 17, Julianne received a corps de ballet contract with the Los Angeles Ballet. Now in her seventh season, some of her notable repertoire have included George Balanchine's "Western Symphony", "Concerto Barocco", as well as Principal roles in “Agon" and “Serenade”. Other notable roles include principal and soloist roles in Christopher Wheeldon’s “Fool’s Paradise”, Justin Peck’s “Belles Lettres”, and Edward Liang’s “Cinderella”. Outside of her work with the Los Angeles Ballet, Julianne is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of dancers, teaching and coaching students of all ages throughout Los Angeles. In addition to her artistic pursuits, she is currently earning a degree in Business Administration.

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KTLA filmed children attending The Nutcracker audition at Dolby Theatre, hoping to obtain a role in children's scenes of this holiday tradition in LA. LAB's Open Children's Audition for The Nutcracker September 19, 2022 Los Angeles Ballet held open auditions for children who want to be part of the 2022/2023 Season production of “The Nutcracker” on Sunday. The event at the Dolby Theatre was attended by children ages 6 to 13. READ ARTICLE AT SOURCE Home / News / New Item

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