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Los Angeles Ballet is pleased to offer a choice of theaters throughout Los Angeles County. It is our mission and commitment to reach out to all communities. Los Angeles Ballet is deeply committed to the well-being and safety of our patrons. Venues Los Angeles Ballet is pleased to offer a choice of theaters throughout Los Angeles County. It is our mission and commitment to reach out to all communities. Los Angeles Ballet is deeply committed to the well-being and safety of our patrons. 2024/2025 Season / Ticket Information / Venues / Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts 9390 N Santa Monica Blvd Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Map It Theatre Website View Seating Map COVID-19 Policies Pasadena Civic Auditorium 300 E Green St Pasadena, CA 91101, USA Map It Theatre Website View Seating Map COVID-19 Policies Royce Hall, UCLA 340 Royce Drive Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Map It Theatre Website View Seating Map COVID-19 Policies Dolby Theatre 6801 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028 Map It Theatre Website View Seating Map COVID-19 Policies In-person Ticket Sales Group Sales Venues Accessibility Gift Certificates Tax-Deductibe Donations Terms & Conditions of Sales In-house Policies Privacy Policy LOS ANGELES BALLET 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. BECOME A MEMBER 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

We could not be more thrilled about the success of our recent LAB Adult Summer Intensive. Participants had the unique opportunity to step into the studio, hone their skills, push their boundaries, and explore new techniques in a professional dance setting. Adult Summer Intensive Adult Summer Intensive / LAB’s immersive ballet experience is returning summer 2025! We could not be more thrilled about the success of our recent LAB Adult Summer Intensive. Participants had the unique opportunity to step into the studio, hone their skills, push their boundaries, and explore new techniques in a professional dance setting. The positive energy and dedication of everyone involved made this program a truly memorable experience for all. Stay tuned for updates on next year’s intensive - you won’t want to miss your chance to be a part of it! 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. SIGN UP SIGN UP Additional questions, contact From plié to pas de deux, you will learn from ballet’s best and brightest in a weeklong summer intensive program. Train with company dancers and conditioning staff Attend a series of enlightening seminars that will teach you the tricks of the trade LAB Rehearsal Director, Laura Chachich Lchachich@losangelesballet.org Memoryhouse , Photo by Cheryl Mann Photography REGISTER TODAY Program Details Where Los Angeles Ballet Center, 11755 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064 Ticket Costs Partial Program Participation: $475 Includes technique, seminars, and repertoire Full Program Participation: $600 Includes technique, seminars, repertoire, pointe, and specialty men’s classes For Ages 18 and Above Must have beginner - intermediate dance experience. Professional experience is not required. You are limited to one (1) signup maximum per transaction. Purchase is non-refundable. SIGN UP 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. BECOME A MEMBER 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

Los Angeles – April 18, 2024 - (LAB) hosted its annual Gala on April 18th at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel with dynamic performances by LAB dancers honoring Jennifer Bellah Maguire, accomplished Attorney & LAB Board Chair, and Academy Award®  Winner & LAB Collaborator Kris Bowers, with Angel Awards for the extraordinary contributions they have made to the arts, LAB and the city of Los Angeles. Home / xGala 2025 / Kris Bowers, Academy Award® Winner & Los Angeles Ballet Collaborator, and Jennifer Bellah Maguire, Accomplished Attorney & Los Angeles Ballet Chair were Honored at the 2024 LAB Gala. Gala Raised over $1.246 Million Los Angeles – April 18, 2024 - (LAB) hosted its annual Gala on April 18th at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel with dynamic performances by LAB dancers honoring Jennifer Bellah Maguire, accomplished Attorney & LAB Board Chair, and Academy Award® Winner & LAB Collaborator Kris Bowers, with Angel Awards for the extraordinary contributions they have made to the arts, LAB and the city of Los Angeles. Kris Bowers, Jennifer Bellah Maguire, Melissa Barak; Photo by Shutterstock Koni Rich, Sharon Davis, Melissa Barak, Donna Mills, Erica Min; Photo by Shutterstock Over the last decade, LAB’s Gala has grown into a beloved event to celebrate ballet as part of the cultural landscape of Los Angeles while raising critical funds for LAB’s artistic programming and mission-driven community offerings. This year, the Gala raised $1.246 Million supporting artistic initiatives that include pioneering bold new works and staging beloved classical story ballets, as well as bringing free dance classes to individuals of all ages and skill levels and the joy of live, professional ballet to under-resourced communities across Los Angeles County, including foster youth, veterans, seniors in assisted living and cancer survivors. Sharon Davis, Erica Min, and Koni Rich were the Gala co-chairs, and the evening was hosted by Emmy® Award-winning actress Donna Mills, with Andrew Firestone, of The Bachelor fame, overseeing the Live Appeal. Jeri Gaile, actress and the current Fred Roberts Director of The Music Center Spotlight, presented the Angel Award to Kris Bowers, and Jon Sokoloff, managing partner of Leonard Green & Partners, presented the Angel Award to Jennifer Bellah Maguire. Michael Milken gave a touching tribute to longtime LAB supporter Robert A. Day. The evening was sponsored by Gov. Gray (Ret.) & Sharon Davis, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Dr Ray & Ghana Irani, Debbie & James Lustig, Dr. Richard Merkin, Michael & Lori Milken Foundation, Erica & Sung Min, Julie Opperman, and Koni & Geoff Rich. Lori & Michael Milken: Photo by Shutterstock Governor Gray Davis (Ret.), Monica Duggal & Aaron Duggal; Photo by Shutterstock Guests included Stephanie Blackmore, Glorya Kaufman, Jerry & Terri Kohl, Michael & Lori Milken, Bari Milken Bernstein & Fred Bernstein, Dr. Ray & Ghada Irani, Debbie & Jimmy Lustig, Joan Van Ark, Alia Tutor and Anita Mann Kohl, and arts leaders including Robert van Leer (The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts) and Rachel Moore (The Music Center). Past honorees include Paula Abdul, Lawrence Bender, Sofia Carson, Governor Gray Davis & Sharon Davis, Robert Day, Jenna Dewan, Linda Duttenhaver, Derek Hough, Ghada Irani, Bari Milken, Lori Milken, Jeff Polak, Gelila Assefa Puck, Kenny Ortega, Jane Seymour, Adam Shankman, Anastasia Soare, Johnese Spisso, Alia Tutor and Ben Vereen. LAB Dancers Bryce Broedell, Marco Biella, Paige Wilkey, Hannah Keene; Photo by Shutterstock LAB is the largest professional dance company in Los Angeles and is on an exciting trajectory toward national recognition. Melissa Barak’s world premiere of Memoryhouse this past June gained local and national acclaim. The Los Angeles Times wrote, “It is an exciting moment for ballet in Los Angeles” and Forbes wrote, “Memoryhouse signals a dazzling creative accomplishment.” (Left to Right) LAB Dancers Jacob Soltero, Cesar Ramirez, Simon Costello in Reclamations; Photo by Shutterstock About Los Angeles Ballet - Los Angeles Ballet (LAB) is the leading ballet company in Los Angeles known for staging classical, contemporary, romantic, and neoclassical ballets, pioneering new works, and presenting relevant works by many of today’s most innovative dance-makers. LAB’s original production of The Nutcracker is an annual holiday favorite for Los Angeles residents and regional, national, and international visitors. Led by Artistic Director Melissa Barak, LAB performs in multiple theater venues across LA County including The Broad Stage in Santa Monica, Royce Hall at UCLA, Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, Pasadena Civic Auditorium, and Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. As part of its mission to expand people’s knowledge of and nurture a love for ballet, LAB gives access to performances to the widest audiences possible by providing free tickets for thousands of residents in underserved communities in Los Angeles County through its arts education program, Power of Performance (POP!). In 2012, LAB launched a hands-on outreach program called A Chance to Dance (ACTD) that provides free ballet and movement instruction for all ages. For information on LAB’s Gala, please contact Julia Rivera, Interim Executive Director, at jrivera@losangelesballet.org

Offices & Studios, 11755 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90064 Contact Home / Contact / Los Angeles Ballet Center General Inquiries (310) 477-7411 labcontact@losangelesballet.org Box Office (310) 998-7782 menu option 1 tickets@losangelesballet.org Public Relations (310) 998-7782 labcontact@losangelesballet.org Offices & Studios 11755 Exposition Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90064 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. BECOME A MEMBER LOS ANGELES BALLET 2024/2025 Season This season includes a beloved fairy tale Cinderella , an experimental outdoor artist collaboration, the return of a critically acclaimed original by LAB Artistic Director Melissa Barak, and the Los Angeles holiday favorite, The Nutcracker . Subscriptions and Single Tickets on Sale Now! DOWNLOAD SEASON BROCHURE

This page will list the various auditions and job openings that the Los Angeles Ballet hosts and has available. Employment Home / Employment / Director of Development LAB is seeking an experienced development professional to join our team. DOWNLOAD JOB DETAILS Open Positions Click to view details. Director of Development DOWNLOAD JOB DETAILS Audition Guidelines The audition submission should begin with a short technical demonstration at the barre and center. At the barre the student must include plies, tendues, ronde de jambe, passé and adagio developpe en croix. In the center the dancers must include adagio, pirouettes, petite and grand allegro. Please also include a classical variation, (on pointe for women) one to two minutes in length. If the dancer does not have a variation prepared, please include a pointe combination for ladies and a combination with jumps (both double tour en l’air and saut de basque) for men. A contemporary solo may also be submitted, but is not a requirement Girls should wear a black leotard and either pink ballet shoes with pink tights or flesh-toned ballet shoes and tights. Boys should wear tights, shoes, and a fitted shirt light-colored preferably in a light color (white or grey) or contrasting color to the surrounding environment. Please no warm-ups, skirts, or baggy clothing. 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

Season 19 has arrived, and another spectacular dance season is ready to take center stage. We open the season with the beloved holiday classic, The Nutcracker. 2024/2025 Season 2024/2025 Season / DECEMBER 6, 2024 – JUNE 15, 2025 2024/2025 Season Season 19 has arrived, and another spectacular dance season is ready to take center stage. We open the season with the beloved holiday classic, The Nutcracker . Experience an emotionally powerful original work by LAB Artistic Director Melissa Barak, and witness something new with an innovative collaboration with visual artist Shantell Martin performed at Destination Crenshaw’s Sankofa Park. Lastly, join us at the ball for a fairytale favorite from Edwaard Liang set to live music. Secure your tickets now for the 2024/2025 season. We look forward to seeing you at the ballet! Photo by Cheryl Mann Photography DECEMBER 6-28, 2024 HOLIDAY The Nutcracker Christensen/Neary I Tchaikovsky A Los Angeles holiday favorite, The Nutcracker returns in December to enchant fans of all ages. Cheer on Clara and the Nutcracker as they battle the Mouse King and travel to the Land of Snow and the Palace of the Dolls. T I C K E T S Photo by Cheryl Mann Photography JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 1, 2025 WINTER Memoryhouse Barak/Richter The Wallis and Los Angeles Ballet present Memoryhouse , an emotionally powerful original work by LAB Artistic Director Melissa Barak. Memoryhouse is a series of abstract vignettes set to a powerful score by Max Richter commemorating the Holocaust and celebrating the triumph and tragedy of the human spirit. T I C K E T S Photo by Cheryl Mann Photography JUNE 12-15, 2025 SUMMER Cinderella Liang/Prokofiev Join Cinderella at the ball to help find her prince before midnight. This enchanting fairytale favorite is brought to life by a joyful score by Prokofiev and reimagined choreography by Liang full of twists, humor, and emotional depth. Sprinkle some magic into your summer with this captivating classic. T I C K E T S 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 2024/2025 Season This season includes a beloved fairy tale Cinderella , an experimental outdoor artist collaboration, the return of a critically acclaimed original by LAB Artistic Director Melissa Barak, and the Los Angeles holiday favorite, The Nutcracker . Subscriptions and Single Tickets on Sale Now! DOWNLOAD SEASON BROCHURE

Kris Bowers, Academy Award® Winner & Los Angeles Ballet Collaborator, and Jennifer Bellah Maguire, Accomplished Attorney & Los Angeles Ballet Chair Were Honored at the 2024 LAB Gala. Purchase Levels Eleve $1000 Pas de Deux $2,500 Grand Piroutte $5,000 Grand Jete $10,000 Tour de Force $25,00.00 Benefactor $50,000 Director's Circle $100,000 Please enter your purchase or donation amount below. Gala 2025 / Gala 2025 Checkout / GALA 2025 Tickets & Donations

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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. 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 Home / News / New Item

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. 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. Home / News / New Item