UPCOMING PERFORMANCES THE NUTCRACKER A Holiday Tradition! | DECEMBER 2023 LEARN MORE Start Now NEXT STEPS Peck | Van Manen | Barak | MARCH 2024 LEARN MORE Frank Bridge Variations Courtesy of Het Nationale Ballet; Photo by Hans Gerritsen Start Now FIREBIRD & SERENADE Possokhov | Balanchine | MAY/JUNE 2024 LEARN MORE Memoryhouse JUNE 2023 GET TICKETS A NEW ERA FOR DANCE IN LA BECOME A MEMBER PARTICIPATE Become a Member Today! 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 art form through unique experiences and exclusive content. SIGN UP ADULT SUMMER INTENSIVE Join LAB this summer for an immersive ballet experience! If you’ve always dreamed of taking the stage with a premier ballet company then step up to the barre and into the dance shoes of life as a member of Los Angeles Ballet. 2023/2024 SEASON THE NUTCRACKER December 1-26, 2023 Christensen | Neary/Tchaikovsky NEXT STEPS March 22-24, 2024 Belle-Lettres - Peck/Franck Frank Bridge Variations - Van Manen/Britten New Work - Barak/Bowers FIREBIRD & SERENADE May 11 - June, 1, 2024 Firebird - Possokhov/Stravinsky Serenade - Balanchine/Tchaikovsky

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Jennifer Bellah Maguire Elected Chair of Los Angeles Ballet Board of Directors December 2, 2021 On November 18, 2021 Jennifer Bellah Maguire was elected Chair of the Los Angeles Ballet Board of Directors. Jennifer Bellah Maguire’s life-long engagement with dance began with classical ballet training as a child. She continued by performing with the Princeton Ballet Society, Oakland Ballet and in contemporary dance at Bryn Mawr College. Ms. Bellah Maguire joined the Board of Los Angeles Ballet in 2005 as a founding member and has been a passionate advocate for building and sustaining a ballet company with the dimension and diversity of Los Angeles. Ms Bellah Maguire is a corporate Partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where she has practiced throughout her career. She holds a bachelor of arts from Bryn Mawr College and was awarded a Watson Foundation Fellowship. Her law degree is from UC Berkeley. She also serves as a Trustee of Otis College of Art and Design and is a member of The Blue Ribbon. Company News from Brandon Lussier, LAB Executive Director DOWNLOAD PDF 2023/2024 Season > News > Previous Item Next Item

Colony adds shine to Los Angeles Ballet's 'Next Wave LA' May 16, 2012 The final bill of Los Angeles Ballet's sixth season, “NextWave LA” is the company's annual new works program (known previously as “New Wave LA”), featuring area choreographers. It’s where you can count on loud amplifiers, the shedding of tutus and hair clips, and the sight of the selfsame ballerina you saw comporting like a regal queen in “Swan Lake” or “The Nutcracker” now writhing in extreme throes. This year’s contemporary bill -- featuring premieres by TV veterans Sonya Tayeh and Stacey Tookey (“So You Think You Can Dance") plus established choreographers Josie Walsh and Kitty McNamee -- may feel to be even more of a stark and risky contrast than previous years since for the first time an L.A. Ballet season has offered only story ballets and no Balanchine. Besides smoothing the distance between classical serenity and stark abstraction, Balanchine ballets also deftly convey the rigorous design and rehearsal values that should bridge both worlds. Yet thanks to McNamee’s opener, a mature and mysterious Euro-style group work called “colony,” the company looks lustrous. The debut came Saturday at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center; the program moves next to Glendale’s Alex Theatre, then the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Set to Anna Clyne’s electronica and cello, “colony” features the metamorphoses of a mostly female brethren as one individualist (retiring dancer Kelly Ann Sloan) makes a break. Outfitted in Kanique Thomas’ ceremonial black coats and silhouetted in chill, harsh light by designer Ben Pilat, the group begins an eerie circling blizzard that morphs into many new geometries. McNamee’s ensemble pointe work here is mesmerizingly chilly -- inscribing arcs, measuring distances, the dancers’ precise feet move like the points and arms of drafting compasses. Meanwhile, the port de bras are kept minimalist and meaningful. Fresh and original, surely “colony” belongs in L.A. Ballet's permanent repertory, alongside Balanchine and Lar Lubovitch. Though well danced, sadly the bill falls off from here. Set to Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds, Tayeh’s “Duets in the act of...” features four obvious couples -- “cold desperation” (Allyssa Bross, Zheng Hua Li), “artificial seduction” (Julia Cinquemani, Vincent S. Adams), “fleeting nostalgia” (Kate Highstrete, Nicolas de la Vega) and “false ego” (Allynne Noelle, Alexander Castillo). Fleeting moments when Tayeh layered the duos, suggesting links between the differing motivations, signaled the stronger piece that might have been. Josie Walsh’s “Sirens,” scored by her husband Paul Rivera Jr., is yet another retelling of the Odysseus myth of sailors battling watery enchantresses. Men cover their ears, shaking their heads; women bourrée en pointe with undulating arms. One expects the likes of Rihanna to emerge from a trap door to hasten “Sirens”’ to its end. The final work, “Be Still,” with choreography by Tookey to a score featuring Matthew Banks (Blue Man group) and Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, is a subtle, dynamic group piece about time that is currently overwhelmed by its emphatic, confusing design (again by Thomas and Pilat). Why a piece about time’s echoes and waves occurs in fringed two-piece suits -- with white-hot spotlights-- distracts to an impossible degree. “NextWave LA” Los Angeles Ballet, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Alex Theatre, Glendale; 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. May 26, 2 p.m. May 27, the Broad Stage, Santa Monica. $30-$95. (310) 998-7782 or www.losangelesballet.org Los Angeles Times by Jean Lenihan DOWNLOAD PDF 2023/2024 Season > News > Previous Item Next Item

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‘New Wave LA’...is heavily influenced by 'So You Think You Can Dance’ choreographers. May 9, 2010 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 Los Angeles Times by Victoria Looseleaf – Special to the Los Angeles Times DOWNLOAD PDF 2023/2024 Season > News > Previous Item Next Item

Julia Cinquemani Promoted to Principal Dancer November 1, 2014 On November 1, 2014, LAB Co-Artistic Director Thordal Christensen announced Julia Cinquemani's promotion from Soloist to Principal Dancer. The announcement came minutes after the curtain went down on Julia's debut as Odette/Odile in Los Angeles Ballet's Swan Lake. Julia joined Los Angeles Ballet in 2010 and was promoted to Soloist in March 2013. Company News from the Staff at LAB 2023/2024 Season > News > Previous Item Next Item

2023/2024 Season > Dancers > Julianne Kinasiewicz Hometown Portage, Indiana Seasons with LAB 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2021/2022, 2022/2023, 2023/2024 Bio Available Shortly MEET THE DANCERS 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 LOS ANGELES BALLET 2023/2024 Season This season includes exciting works by master choreographers Justin Peck, Hans van Manen, Yuri Possokhov and George Balanchine, and another world premiere by LAB Artistic Director, Melissa Barak. Plus, LA's holiday favorite, The Nutcracker. Subscriptions and Single Tickets on Sale Now! DOWNLOAD SEASON BROCHURE

2023/2024 Season > Dancers > Jake Ray Hometown Orange County, California Seasons with LAB 2022/2023, 203/2024 Jacob Ray is a professional ballet dancer and actor born in Irvine, California. He began his ballet training at the age of 11 at the Grand Rapids Ballet with artistic director, Patricia Barker. While there, Jacob joined the junior company under the mentorship of Attila Mosolygo. A favorite memory of his is dancing the role of Fritz in The Nutcracker at DeVos Performance Hall. Jacob continued his training with Dmitri Kulev at the Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy in Laguna Hills, California. In addition to this Jacob trained in New York at the Bolshoi Ballet Summer Intensive in 2017 and 2018 on full scholarship, where he was invited to train year-round at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia. Jacob also competed at Youth American Grand Prix in Los Angeles winning 1st place in the Men’s Classical Division (2017) and 2nd place for his contemporary piece, “The Highest Flood” in Denver, Colorado (2018). His Professional Ballet career began with the Colorado Ballet Studio Company in 2019. Jacob was promoted to Apprentice in the same year and was then promoted to Corps de Ballet. Jacob joined the Los Angeles Ballet in 2022. During his first year with the company, he performed various roles including, Arabian and Dr. Stahlbaum in The Nutcracker , Main Pas in Christopher Wheeldon’s, A Fool’s Paradise , and the Dream Pas in Val Caniparoli’s Lady of the Camellia’s . Beyond Ballet, Jacob is an actor. He’s currently studying at the Baron Brown Studio, training in the Meisner technique, with acting teacher Anne Dremann. With his love of dance, film, and writing, Jacob is embarking on a career that will combine his many passions for the arts. He’s excited to be with the Los Angeles Ballet under the Artistic Direction of Melissa Barak and the new vision she has for the company. MEET THE DANCERS 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 LOS ANGELES BALLET 2023/2024 Season This season includes exciting works by master choreographers Justin Peck, Hans van Manen, Yuri Possokhov and George Balanchine, and another world premiere by LAB Artistic Director, Melissa Barak. Plus, LA's holiday favorite, The Nutcracker. Subscriptions and Single Tickets on Sale Now! DOWNLOAD SEASON BROCHURE

2023/2024 Season > Gala 2023 MAY 18, 2023 Gala 2023 at Beverly Wilshire Hotel Los Angeles Ballet’s 17th Annual Gala will be held at Beverly Wilshire Hotel, May 18, 2023. Gala Chairs Sharon Davis & Kirsten Sarkisian are thrilled to invite you to this star-studded event, featuring excerpts of the LAB production of The Lady of the Camellias and clips from our documentary, The Making of Memoryhouse , a holocaust story. ​ Honorees Jeff Polak Alia Tutor Emcee Donna Mills Beverly Wilshire Hotel May 18, 2023 SEATING OPPORTUNITIES & TRIBUTES CORPORATE SPONSORSHIPS ON SALE NOW! WELCOME Los Angeles Ballet Los Angeles Ballet presents a season of legendary story ballets and contemporary masterworks. LEARN MORE LAB OUTREACH PROGRAM A Chance to Dance (ACTD) ACTD is presented two Sundays each month during Los Angeles Ballet’s season at LAB Center. LAB dancers teach free ballet classes, alternative dance/fitness classes, and more! All ages are welcome. VIEW ACTD SCHEDULE

2 2023/2024 Season > Photo Gallery > Season 2009-2010 George Balanchine Lucy Van Cleef in George Balachine's 'Serenade'; Photo: Reed Hutchinson George Balachine's 'Serenade'; Photo: Reed Hutchinson Andrew Brader in George Balachine's 'Serenade' Monica Pelfrey & Melissa Barak in George Balanchine's 'Serenade' Monica Pelfrey & Zheng Hua Li in George Balnchine's 'Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2' Grace McLoughlin & Zheng Hua Lo, and Endsemble in George Balnchine's 'Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2' George Balnchine's 'Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2' Grace McLoughlin, Melissa Barak, and Ensemble in George Balnchine's 'Kammermusik Piano Concerto No. 2' George Balnchine Drew Grant & Grace McLoughlin in George Balnchine's 'Kammermusik Piano Concerto No. 2' Chelsea Paige Johnston & Chehon Wespi-Tschopp in 'Wink' by Mandy Moore Mandy Moore Chelsea Paige Johnston & Chehon Wespi-Tschopp in 'Wink' by Mandy Moore Monica Pelfrey & Zheng Hua Li in "Reflect. Affect. Carry on...' by Travis Wall Alexander Forck, Chelsea Paige Johnston & Craig Hall in "Reflect. Affect. Carry on...' by Travis Wall Josie Walsh Josie Walsh Andrew Brader in 'Transmutation' by Josie Walsh Josie Walsh Grace McLoughlin in 'The Back and Forth' by Sonya Tayeh Kate Highstrete & Andrew Brader in 'The Back and Forth' by Sonya Tayeh Christensen/Neary Helena Thordal-Christensen in 'The Nutcracker' by Christensen/Neary Harrison Coll and Helena Thordal-Christensen in 'The Nutcracker' by Christensen/Neary Previous Gallery Next Gallery All photos by Reed Hutchinson Click on image for a fullscreen presentation.

2 2023/2024 Season > Photo Gallery > Season 2012-2013 Christensen/Neary Mia Katz & Nicolas de la Vega in 'The Nutcracker' by Christensen/Neary Bianca Bulle in 'The Nutcracker' by Christensen/Neary Zheng Hua Li in 'The Nutcracker' by Christensen/Neary Snowflakes Ensemble in 'The Nutcracker' by Christensen/Neary Helena Thordal-Christensen, David Block & Nicholas de la Vega in 'The Nutcracker' by Christensen/Neary Julia Cinquemani & Alexander Castillo in 'The Nutcracker' by Christensen/Neary Allynne Noelle & Ulrik Birkkjaer in 'The Nutcracker' by Christensen/Neary Allynne Noelle & Zheng Hua Li and Ensemble in George Balanchine's 'La Sonnambula' Allynne Noelle & Zheng Hua Li in George Balanchine's 'La Sonnambula' Chelsea Paige Johnstin & Zheng Hua Li in George Balanchine's 'La Sonnambula' Chelsea Paige Johnstin & Zheng Hua Li in George Balanchine's 'La Sonnambula' Julia Cinquemani & Alyssa Bross and Ensemble in George Balanchine's 'Concerto Barocco' Julia Cinquemani & Alexander Castillo and Ensemble in George Balanchine's 'Concerto Barocco' Allynne Noelle & Kenta Shimizu in George Balanchine's 'Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux' Allyssa Bross & Ulrik Birkkjaer in George Balanchine's 'Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux' Ulrik Birkkjaer in George Balanchine's 'Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux' Kenta Shimizu & Ensemble in George Balanchine's 'The Four Temperaments' Allyssa Bross & Christopher Revels in George Balanchine's 'The Four Temperaments' Kenta Shimizu & Ensemble in George Balanchine's 'The Four Temperaments' Kate Highstrete & Christopher Revels in George Balanchine's 'The Four Temperaments' Chelsea Paige Johnston & Alexander Castillo and Ensemble in 'La Valse' Allyssa Bross & Zheng Hua Li in 'La Valse' Allyssa Bross & Zheng Hua Li in 'La Valse' Allyssa Bross & Zheng Hua Li in 'La Valse' Previous Gallery Next Gallery All photos by Reed Hutchinson Click on image for a fullscreen presentation.