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A new ballet company seeks to fill a void in Los Angeles.
With studios that overlook Malibu, a business oflice in Santa Monica, sets and costumes in downtown Los Angeles and performances of the inaugural season presented at three different theaters. Los Angeles Ballet has the city covered.
Co-artistic Directors Thordal Chnstensen and Colleen Neary, a husbandand-wife team, see their fledgling ballet company's unconventional nature as a logical response to the geography of their city and are committed to nurturing a resident world-class ballet company.
"We want to build an audience for Los Angeles Ballet by essentially touring this far-flung metropolis," says Chnstensen, former artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. "Rather than start by asking an audience to fight the traffic to go downtown, we are bringing ballet to these wonderful theaters and building an audience at each venue." Neary adds, "We want this company to belong...