Brooklyn Orchestra presents Ladja: An immersive ballet experience
$35
- Olivier Glissant, conductor
- Yannick Lebrun, choreographer & dancer
Join us for an evening of music, dance, and visual innovation.
Olivier Glissant’s Ladja explores variations on Caribbean capoeira-like dances, bridging time and space between 1936 Martinique and 2023 Brooklyn.
Featuring archival footage from 1936 by famed choreographer Katherine Dunham. Live performance by Yannick Lebrun, Alvin Ailey lead dancer. Composition by Olivier Glissant and performance by Brooklyn Orchestra.
With this new production, cross the fourth wall, sit onstage among the performers, and experience music and movement from the artists’ perspective.
About Brooklyn Orchestra
The Brooklyn Orchestra is a symphonic ensemble dedicated to new music, striving to focus on contemporary composers. Created in 2015 by composer/conductor Olivier Glissant, the group was conceived to fuse genres of music that rarely meet on the classical stage and to bring music from multiple cultures to the orchestral repertoire, in an effort to make symphonic music accessible to a wider and more diverse audience.
https://www.brooklynorchestra.org/About Olivier Glissant, conductor
Based in Brooklyn, NY, Olivier Glissant is a composer, conductor, producer, and founder of Blacksalt Records. He created the Brooklyn Orchestra in 2015, a symphonic ensemble dedicated to new music and contemporary composers, working to fuse kinds of music that rarely meet on the classical stage.
Glissant spent his childhood in his native Martinique, then went on to study piano in Paris before attending Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1988, where he studied music production & engineering, composition, and conducting.
His influences include South American, Caribbean, and African music, as well as European classical music. This brought him to collaborate through the years with Philip Glass, Norah Jones, Bill Frisell, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vinicius Cantuaria, Pete Seeger, John Zorn, Tico da Costa, Thiago Thiago de Mello, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, and Yasmin Levy.
https://www.olivier-glissant.com/About Yannick Lebrun, choreographer & dancer
Yannick Lebrun (Cayenne, French Guiana) began training in his native country at the Adaclam School under the guidance of Jeanine Verin. After graduating high school in 2004, he moved to New York City to study at The Ailey School as a scholarship student. Mr. Lebrun was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2011, and in 2013 France-Amérique magazine highlighted him as one of the 50 most talented French people in the United States. In November 2016 Mr. Lebrun was a guest performer with The Royal Ballet in Wayne McGregor’s Chroma. In 2019 he choreographed "Saa Magni," his first work for Ailey II, and in 2021 he created "Lora" for ABT Studio Company. Mr. Lebrun was a member of Ailey II and joined the Company in 2008.
https://www.alvinailey.org/alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater/yannick-lebrun