Dance Reflections launches within the U.S.

Van Cleef & Arpels has maintained shut ties with the world of dance because the Twenties. These bonds had been strengthened within the Fifties, when Claude Arpels met choreographer George Balanchine. Their shared ardour for valuable stones led to a creative collaboration that gave delivery to Balanchine’s ballet Jewels, carried out for the primary time in New York in April 1967. 

Echoing this collaboration, a brand new partnership was established in 2012, with Benjamin Millepied, former principal dancer of the New York City Ballet and founding father of the L.A. Dance Project firm. In 2020, this dialogue between the Maison and the choreographic arts continues with the creation of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, an initiative that goals to assist dance corporations and establishments throughout the globe. The program displays the Maison’s want to encourage the broadening of the present choreographic repertoire and to carry up to date works to as many individuals as doable. 

In addition to the partnership launched in June 2022, with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is growing its assist for the presentation of choreographic works in America by making this fall a dedication to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). This multidisciplinary arts heart has been showcasing items by internationally famend artists and representatives of the rising scene for over 150 years. 

As a part of BAM’s Next Wave 2022, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting the artist Gisèle Vienne with the manufacturing of Crowd from October 13-15. The choreographer proposes a hypnotic efficiency evoking the collective and inventive euphoria of an evening spent getting misplaced within the crowd. 

This month, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels will even be lively in Los Angeles, the place it’s partnering with L.A. Dance Project and The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) to carry collectively three internationally famend choreographers: Dimitri Chamblas, Benjamin Millepied and Gisèle Vienne. 

Slow Show, created by Dimitri Chamblas, options beginner dancers. Each distinctive efficiency relies on the ideas of trance, exaltation, telepathy and unconscious recollections. The power and vivacity of this piece is revealed by actions slowed right down to the acute, virtually imperceptible, invisible. 

Inspired by composer Andy Akiho’s lately launched Seven Pillars, and carried out in a set design by visible artist Barbara Kruger, Benjamin Millepied’s summary piece showcases the corporate’s glorious artists in a show of dancing that’s each intimate and virtuosic. 

For this occasion, Gisèle Vienne has developed a brand new model of Crowd, tailored to the outside areas of the L.A. Dance Project studios. Borrowing as a lot from city dance as from the state of trance, this work, initially supposed for the stage, suits in flawlessly with the metropolitan environment of Los Angeles.