LA Dance Project: a fugitive Romeo & Juliet Suite in New York

David Adrian Freeland Jr and Morgan Lugo in Benjamin Millepied’s Romeo & Juliet Suite

L.A. Dance Project in Benjamin Millepied’s Romeo & Juliet Suite

Morgan Lugo in Benjamin Millepied's Romeo & Juliet Suite

David Adrian Freeland Jr and Morgan Lugo in Benjamin Millepied’s Romeo & Juliet Suite

By Carla Escoda, 06 March 2026

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“In this production, inventive staging and camerawork do the heavy lifting, not the choreography”

Reviewed at Park Avenue Armory, New York City on 3 March 2026

Romeo & Juliet Suite (Benjamin Millepied)

LA Dance Project

François-Pierre Couture, Set Designer, Lighting Designer

Camille Assaf, Costume Designer

David Adrian Freeland Jr., Dancer

Morgan Lugo, Dancer

Addison Ector, Dancer

Boulez, Millepied and Salonen at New York Philharmonic

David Wolfson, 9th October

Pierre Boulez’ Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna is choreograped by Benjamin Millepied for a New York Philharmonic performance, led by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

***11

SF Ballet's Program 2 is a Kaleidoscope of Vibrant Works

Terez Rose, 12th February

Artful patterns come to life in San Francisco Ballet’s Program 2, Kaleidoscope, which opened last Tuesday night at the War Memorial Opera House.

****1

Ratmansky's Namouna stands out in NYCB's Here/Now

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 2nd March

Alexei Ratmansky and Justin Peck are all the more impressive among choreographers working today because of how many of their works seem destined to stay in the repertoire for a long time to come.

***11

Bright, Fast, Cool, Blue

Jaime Robles, 13th February

From the ethereal to the galavanting, the program offered a spectrun of emotions delivered with precise technique and abandoned energy.

*****

A Millepied première at ABT

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 25th October

There is some good dancing in Benjamin Millepied's I Felt the Earth Move but it missed the mark as far as emotional content is concerned.

***11

Curated by Justin Peck

Hilary Stroh, 22nd April

Open-ended works provide different angle on Ballet across America

****1

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Carla Escoda

Born in the Philippines, Carla trained as a ballet and modern dancer with the Alice Reyes Dance Company in Manila. She has lived and worked in Asia and the U.S. and has written about the arts for Bachtrack, KQED (the northern California public media broadcaster), Dance International, dance journal/hk, the Huffington Post, Dance Europe and ballettothepeople.