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Los Angeles Ballet photo gallery presents a complete suite of season performance photos beginning with LAB’s inaugural season in 2005. Los Angeles Ballet performance photographer: Reed Hutchinson Media Gallery / 2015/2016 Photo Gallery / 2015/2016 Photo Gallery Giselle The Nutcracker Don Quixote Romeo & Juliet

Los Angeles Ballet Co-Artistic Directors Colleen Neary and Thordal Christensen have been honored with the McCallum Theatre Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. Home / News / New Item LAB Co-Artistic Directors Receive Lifetime Achievement Award November 1, 2012 McCallum Theatre Los Angeles Ballet Co-Artistic Directors Colleen Neary and Thordal Christensen have been honored with the McCallum Theatre Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. Previous recipients of this award include Julie McDonald, of MSA Agency, Nigel Lythgoe, and Lula Washington. The award will be presented at the 15th Annual Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival on Saturday, November 10, 2012. To attend the Festival and learn more, visit McCallum Theatre's website. READ ARTICLE AT SOURCE

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 2 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’s The Nutcracker is as much a holiday tradition for Los Angeles as tree lighting at The Grove or watching the floats in the Hollywood Christmas Parade.  The Nutcracker 2026/2027 Season / The Nutcracker / December 11 – 27, 2026 The Nutcracker Christensen/Neary | Tchaikovsky Celebrate the season with Los Angeles Ballet’s magical production of The Nutcracker , a dazzling holiday adventure filled with wonder, humor, and Southern California charm. Join young Clara and her beloved Nutcracker Prince as they battle the unforgettable Mouse King before journeying through the sparkling Land of Snow to the enchanting Palace of the Dolls. Faithful to the beloved classic while infused with a distinctly Los Angeles spirit, this uniquely local production transforms familiar Southern California landmarks into a dreamlike holiday fantasy. From a grand Spanish-style Hancock Park mansion to the snowy slopes of Big Bear, the iconic Venice Beach arches, and the shimmering moonlit Pacific Ocean, every scene captures the warmth and beauty of the Southland during the holidays. As a special seasonal treat, performances at the iconic Dolby Theatre continue beyond Christmas Day. At The Dolby, audiences will experience Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s beloved score performed live by the Los Angeles Ballet Orchestra. Choreography LAB founders and former co-artistic directors Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary’s original choreography is an inspired take on this classic holiday favorite that reflects the city where this production and LAB was born. Score Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker is one of the most recognizable ballet scores for audiences worldwide. The Nutcracker Suite gained instant popularity as an orchestral piece in 1892 and has become synonymous with the winter holiday season. Sensory Friendly Performance December 26 | 2:00 pm This performance is specially adapted to create a more comfortable and accessible environment for individuals with autism, sensory sensitivities, or other cognitive or social challenges, as well as their families. LEARN MORE Run Time 2 hours plus a 20-minute intermission Photos by Cheryl Mann Photography SUBSCRIBE Perfomance Schedule Royce Hall, UCLA On Sale Soon! Friday, December 11 | 7:30 pm Saturday, December 12 | 2:00 pm Saturday, December 12 | 7:30 pm Sunday, December 13 | 2:00 pm Dolby Theatre Los Angeles Ballet Orchestra Single Tickets On Sale Soon! Friday, December 18 | 7:30 pm Saturday, December 19 | 2:00 pm Saturday, December 19 | 7:30 pm Sunday, December 20 | 2:00 pm Sunday, December 20 | 7:30 pm Tuesday, December 22 | 2:00 pm Tuesday, December 22 | 7:30 pm Wednesday, December 23 | 2:00 pm Wednesday, December 23 | 7:30 pm Thursday, December 24 | 2:00 pm Sensory Friendly Performance Saturday, December 26 | 2:00 pm only Saturday, December 26 | 7:30 pm Sunday, December 27 | 2:00 pm 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 from the premiere performances of LAB’s original production of The Nutcracker in 2006. Learn about LAB’s Leadership, Mission, Outreach initiatives, commissions of original works and more. LAB HISTORY

Eric is a seasoned box office operations & ticketing management professional who first began as a Ticket Seller with AEG/Staples Center in 2008 and was soon promoted within AEG to Manager, Box Office Operations at the formerly named Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE (now Peacock Theater) in Los Angeles. He has had further box office and ticketing management leadership roles with AEG and the Los Angeles Clippers, gaining valuable management and guest experience knowledge that he has applied to his role as LAB’s Box Office Manager since 2022. Home / Staff / Administrator Eric Gonzalez Director of Box Office Operations Eric is a seasoned box office operations & ticketing management professional who first began as a Ticket Seller with AEG/Staples Center in 2008 and was soon promoted within AEG to Manager, Box Office Operations at the formerly named Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE (now Peacock Theater) in Los Angeles. He has had further box office and ticketing management leadership roles with AEG and the Los Angeles Clippers, gaining valuable management and guest experience knowledge that he has applied to his role as LAB’s Box Office Manager since 2022.

Next up on the Ballet's schedule is Swan Lake, which Christensen calls "fabulous, because it has glorious music. Whether you like hip-hop or classical, there is no way you will not be moved by what's going on." Home / News / New Item Los Angeles Ballet tries the untraditional May 9, 2010 Los Angeles Times by Victoria Looseleaf Kate Highstrete made Myrtha, the Queen of the Wilis, an other-worldly creature of pitiless steel. DOWNLOAD PDF

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Los Angeles Ballet photo gallery presents a complete suite of season performance photos beginning with LAB’s inaugural season in 2005. Los Angeles Ballet performance photographer: Reed Hutchinson Media Gallery / 2013/2014 Photo Gallery / 2013/2014 Photo Gallery The Nutcracker Quartet La Sylphide Serenade

In honor of America at 250, American Icons celebrates legendary innovators in American dance and music. The program opens with Artistic Director Melissa Barak’s Pretty, Peculiar Things set to In C Remixed, a musical adaption by numerous American musicians to American composer Terry Riley’s ground-breaking work, In C. Written in 1964, In C stands as one of the most successful works by an American composer and a seminal example of minimalism in classical music. American Icons The Cage Dilly Dilly Wavelength The Cage Dilly Dilly Wavelength LAB's ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Melissa Barak Melissa Barak Barak is a former leading dancer with Los Angeles Ballet where she performed for five seasons commencing in 2006 and choreographed Lost In Transition in 2008. Her career also includes New York City Ballet (NYCB), where she performed in numerous works by George Balanchine, as well as originating roles in new ballets by Christopher Wheeldon, Elliot Feld and Robert Garland, among others. LEARN MORE LOS ANGELES BALLET History Read the history of the company from the premiere performances of LAB’s original production of The Nutcracker in 2006. Learn about LAB’s Leadership, Mission, Outreach initiatives, commissions of original works and more. LAB HISTORY 2026/2027 Season / American Icons / September 24–27, 2026 American Icons The Cage Robbins | Stravinsky Dilly Dilly Taylor | Ives Wavelength Barak | Lawrence In honor of America at 250, American Icons celebrates legendary innovators in American dance and music. The program opens with an encore of Artistic Director Melissa Barak’s smash hit Wavelength set to a score by American composer David Lawrence and featuring a costume collaboration with luxury fashion house ETRO. Included in the program are two legendary American dancemakers, Jerome Robbins and Paul Taylor. Robbins’ The Cage takes the audience into an intense scene where a tribe of female insects prey on the male counterparts that enter their habitat. Premiering in 1951, The Cage stands till this day as a revolutionary work both in invention and abstract storytelling. Paul Taylor’s Dilly Dilly is also a masterclass in abstract storytelling where its cast of 11 dancers playfully frolic and romp to the famous tunes of American folk singer, Burl Ives. Choreography The Cage – Robbins | Stravinsky Dilly Dilly – Taylor | Ives Wavelength – Barak | Lawrence Music & Score The Cage : Concerto in D for String Orchestra – Igor Stravinsky Dilly Dilly : A medley of folk songs – Burl Ives Wavelength : David Lawrence Run Time Available shortly. SUBSCRIBE Perfomance Schedule BroadStage On Sale Now! Thursday, September 24 | 7:30 pm Friday, September 25 | 7:30 pm Saturday, September 26 | 7:30 pm Sunday, September 27 | 2:00 pm

A celebration of George Balanchine’s life, choreography and his time working in Hollywood with performances of seven of his greatest ballets and discussions with noted dance critics, historians and répétiteurs of The George Balanchine Trust Home / News / New Item Los Angeles Balanchine Presents the Balanchine Festival February 1, 2013 LAB Public Relations Balanchine GOLD (March/April 2013) and Balanchine RED (May/June 2013) A celebration of George Balanchine’s life, choreography and his time working in Hollywood with performances of seven of his greatest ballets and discussions with noted dance critics, historians and répétiteurs of The George Balanchine Trust at: Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center Royce Hall – UCLA Valley Performing Arts Center – CSU Northridge Alex Theatre – Glendale Carpenter Performing Arts Center – CSU Long Beach Los Angeles Ballet presents its Balanchine Festival , celebrating the genius of the most important and influential choreographer of the 20th century. Extending over three months, the Festival centers on seven of Balanchine’s greatest ballets performed in two programs (GOLD and RED), presented at each of LAB’s five home theaters. Special Festival events will include discussions and interviews with those who worked with Balanchine, and an examination of Balanchine’s Hollywood years with screenings of his film choreography. Los Angeles Ballet co-artistic directors Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary assembled the program to represent Balanchine in his many styles and eras. Both Christensen and Neary danced with Balanchine’s New York City Ballet. Balanchine personally selected Neary to stage his ballets, and to become a répétiteur for The George Balanchine Trust. She has staged his ballets for major companies in America and internationally, including the Paris Opera Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Mariinksy (formerly Kirov Ballet) and American Ballet Theatre, to name a few, as well as for Los Angeles Ballet. “Selecting only seven ballets from the rich trove Balanchine created over the decades was not easy,” Christensen said. Neary added, “Each of these ballets has a specific mood and reflects a distinct musical and choreographic composition and style. Each ballet also has stories surrounding its creation, the music, and those who danced it, which will be part of the conversations that ticket holders can also experience as part of the performances.” Balanchine GOLD includes La Sonnambula , a one-act story ballet with love, jealousy, murder and a mysterious sleepwalker; Concerto Barocco, one of Balanchine’s signature works set to Bach’s Concerto in D-minor for Two Violins ; Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux , a bravura duet set to what was the original music for the Black Swan pas de deux; and Four Temperaments, with music Paul Hindemith composed at Balanchine’s request and wherein the choreographer fused classical and contemporary movement to explore the medieval “humors” attributed to the human body. Balanchine RED opens with another one-act story ballet, La Valse , where Maurice Ravel’s music is the backdrop for a young woman’s fascination with a sinister figure at a ball. Agon employs Igor Stravinsky’s score for a series of contests among the dancers, and Balanchine returns to Stravinsky for Rubies , the jazzy, exuberant center section of the full length ballet, Jewels . George Balanchine, (or Mr. B as he was called by those who knew and worked with him), began his career in Russia, built his reputation as a choreographer at Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, then came to the United States where he established the School of American Ballet and built what became the New York City Ballet. But Balanchine also spent time in Hollywood, often choreographing for his then wife Vera Zorina. Balanchine’s time in Hollywood is one of the aspects of his career that will be explored by a rotating roster of guest commentators that includes arts journalists Lewis Segal, Victoria Looseleaf, and Sasha Anawalt, and Balanchine répétiteurs including Colleen Neary, her sister Patricia Neary, Kent Stowell and Francia Russell. During his life Balanchine selected répétiteurs authorized to stage his ballets. Since his death in 1983, The Balanchine Trust and its répétiteurs have continued to ensure the integrity of the staging of Balanchine’s ballets while introducing new generations to Balanchine’s legacy. (The George Balanchine Trust, established in 1987 with the mission of preserving and protecting Balanchine’s creative works, is the center from which the business operations relating to the licensing of George Balanchine’s creative output emanate. The Trust has the responsibility of disseminating and protecting the integrity and the copyrights of George Balanchine’s work in the present and for the future, and assigns répétiteurs to teach and coach Balanchine ballets around the world.) “April 30, 2013 marks the 30th anniversary of Mr. B’s death,” Christensen noted. “We had added two more theaters for a total of five home venues, and as Los Angeles Ballet was entering its seventh season in 2012-2013, it seemed the appropriate time for a festival to celebrate Balanchine’s genius and life. It was a happy coincidence when the Music Center announced its festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, L.A.’s Rite: Stravinsky, Innovation, and Dance. ” “Our Balanchine Festival fit like a glove with the Stravinsky festival,” Neary said. “Balanchine and Stravinsky were great friends and loved to collaborate. With Agon and Rubies already part of Los Angeles Ballet’s Balanchine Festival, we were very pleased with the invitation to perform those ballets this summer as part of the Stravinsky festival to honor both Balanchine and Stravinsky at the same time.” DOWNLOAD PDF

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