Bryce David Dessner (born April 23, 1976) is an American composer and guitarist based in Paris, and a member of the rock band the National . Dessner's twin brother, Aaron is also a member of the group. Together, they write the music in collaboration with lead singer and lyricist Matt Berninger .
86-602: Benjamin Millepied ( French pronunciation: [bɛ̃ʒamɛ᷉ milpje] ; born 10 June 1977) is a French dancer and choreographer , who has lived and worked in the United States since joining the New York City Ballet in 1995, where he became a soloist in 1998 and a principal in 2002. He has also created choreography for the company, and choreographed pieces for other major companies. He retired from
172-710: A 32-track, multi-artist compilation also produced by Aaron and Bryce for Red Hot. Day of the Dead features collaborations and recordings from a diverse group of artists including Wilco , Flaming Lips , Bruce Hornsby , Justin Vernon , The National, The War on Drugs , Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth , Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo , Jenny Lewis , Unknown Mortal Orchestra , Perfume Genius , Jim James of My Morning Jacket , Senegalese collective Orchestra Baobob, composer Terry Riley and his son Gyan Riley , electronic artist Tim Hecker , jazz pianist Vijay Iyer and Bela Fleck . Of
258-472: A brand new festival of music and art called Sounds from a Safe Harbour. The festival took place in Cork, Ireland, from September 17 to 20, 2015 and featured new commissions, collaborations and performances in venues throughout the city. The inaugural weekend featured performances by Shara Worden's My Brightest Diamond , celebrated English organist James McVinnie , Sō Percussion, and Mina Tindle . It also featured
344-802: A choreographer, creating dances for City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre , the School of American Ballet , the Metropolitan Opera , the Paris Opera Ballet , Ballet de Genève, and his own company, Danses Concertantes. From 2006 to 2007, he was choreographer-in-residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. On 26 October 2011, the media announced that Millepied would retire from New York City Ballet. In 2011, L.A. Dance Project, founded and directed by Millepied,
430-431: A coherent whole.” Choreography consisting of ordinary motor activities, social dances, commonplace movements or gestures, or athletic movements may lack a sufficient amount of authorship to qualify for copyright protection. A recent lawsuit was brought by professional dancer and choreographer Kyle Hanagami, who sued Epic Games, alleging that the video game developer copied a portion of Hanagami’s copyrighted dance moves in
516-409: A collaboration between Bryce, Aaron Dessner, Marcel Dzama, Lisa Hannigan, members of internationally renowned new music group Crash Ensemble and virtuosic Canadian violinist, Yuki Numata Resnick. After a year off in 2016, Sounds from a Safe Harbour returned to Cork from the 14th to the 17th of September, 2017. The National kicked off their world tour, in support of the new album Sleep Well Beast , at
602-430: A collaboration led by composer Nathalie Joachim with Yvonne Lam and Nicholas Houfek, a multi-disciplinary installation by Ash Fure, and culminating in a new evening length theatrical work composed by Dessner and conceived in collaboration with director Kaneza Schaal slated for premiere in 2026. Dessner is the founder and curator of the annual Cincinnati-based MusicNOW Festival. He was tapped to curate 'Mountains and Waves,'
688-770: A contemporary California painter and video artist. The premiere of "Reflections" by Millepied took place at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris on 23 April 2013. In 2013, L.A. Dance Project continued to tour at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam, Istanbul, Spoleto Festival in Italy, Edinburgh International Festival, La Maison de la Danse in Lyon, France and Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. In September 2013, at Maison de la Danse in Lyon,
774-732: A digital platform for new work and organized dancer exchanges with the Mariinsky and American Ballet Theatre. Reset , a ballet documentary by Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai , featured Millepied as he mounted his first production as director of the Paris Opera ballet. It premiered in France on Canal+ in December 2015. It later had its North American premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival . Millepied resigned from
860-466: A live performance reunion for the Dessner twins and Kjartansson, as both artists had previously collaborated on a six-hour video work, A Lot of Sorrow , which documents The National performing their three and a half minute song, "Sorrow," for six hours in front of a live audience at MoMA PS1 . Dessner first collaborated with Kronos Quartet in 2009. Founder David Harrington approached him about composing
946-1084: A new, more naturalistic style of choreography, including by Russian choreographer Michel Fokine (1880-1942) and Isadora Duncan (1878-1927), and since then styles have varied between realistic representation and abstraction. Merce Cunningham , George Balanchine , and Sir Frederick Ashton were all influential choreographers of classical or abstract dance, but Balanchine and Ashton, along with Martha Graham , Leonide Massine , Jerome Robbins and others also created representational works. Isadora Duncan loved natural movement and improvisation . The work of Alvin Ailey (1931-1989), an African-American dancer, choreographer, and activist, spanned many styles of dance, including ballet, jazz , modern dance, and theatre. Dances are designed by applying one or both of these fundamental choreographic methods: Several underlying techniques are commonly used in choreography for two or more dancers: Movements may be characterized by dynamics, such as fast, slow, hard, soft, long, and short. Today,
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#17327765687021032-704: A piece for their performance at the Celebrate Brooklyn! festival in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. The piece Dessner wrote, Aheym , (meaning "homeward" in Yiddish ), was inspired by his Jewish immigrant grandparents who settled near the park when they arrived in Brooklyn. In 2011, Dessner was commissioned by Kronos Quartet to compose a piece for the Barbican Centre's "Reverberations: The Influence of Steve Reich" festival in London. The piece, Tenebre ,
1118-494: A relationship with Portman. Millepied and Portman wed in a Jewish ceremony held in Big Sur, California on 4 August 2012. The family lived in Paris for a time, after Millepied accepted the position of director of dance with the Paris Opera Ballet . They have two children: a son Aleph (b. 2011) and a daughter Amalia (b. 2017). In January 2014, Millepied said he was in the process of converting to Judaism (his wife's faith). In 2016,
1204-524: A score by Muhly and visual design by painter Christopher Wool . The program also includes a revival of Merce Cunningham 's 1964 Winterbranch , a movement exploration of falling bodies set to a mostly two-note score by La Monte Young , and William Forsythe 's Quintett , a 1993 study in loss and hope to avant-garde composer Gavin Bryar's composition Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet . Millepied's collaborators include Rodarte , Barbara Kruger , and Alex Israel,
1290-501: A set of experimental musical instruments Dessner named "Chord Sticks" and built by Aron Sanchez from Buke and Gase . The instruments function on the 3rd bridge principle, with muting the string attack and let the string resonance swell afterwards. In April 2019, Deutsche Grammophon released the album El Chan featuring an all-Dessner programme performed by Katia and Marielle Labèque including Concerto for two pianos , El Chan , and Haven with Dessner on electric guitar. The album
1376-571: A three-year partnership with the LUMA Foundation in Arles, France , offering the nine-member company a continuing residency and performance space in the foundation's Parc des Ateliers. L.A. Dance Project will spend five non-consecutive weeks a year in Arles, where the company will be able to work, create and produce. In January 2013, the Paris Opera Ballet announced that Millepied had accepted
1462-503: A tour produced by ArKtype, performing works by Dessner, Chalmin, Glass, Reich and Meredith Monk. Dream House Quartet will release its first recordings with Deustsche Gramaphone as an EP slated for release in April 2023, with full-length album due in 2024. Dessner is a frequent collaborator with many of the most creative and renowned musicians working today, such as Philip Glass , Bang on a Can All-Stars , and Glenn Kotche . Dessner served as
1548-500: A unique arrangement of duo piano and electric guitar. Dessner has since composed several works for the Quartet, as has David Chalmin, with additional commissions written for the Quartet by Caroline Shaw, Timo Andres, Max Richter and many others. New arrangements by Dessner of works by Philip Glass and Steve Reich are also part of the group's growing repertoire. In 2019 the group premiered Thom Yorke's first classical composition "Don't Fear
1634-592: A weekend celebration of his music at the Barbican in London, May 2015, with guests including Steve Reich, eighth blackbird, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Sō Percussion, Caroline Shaw, and the Britten Sinfonia. In September 2015, Dessner curated a weekend of performances at the Cork Opera House , Ireland. He is also the co-founder and co-curator of Crossing Brooklyn Ferry. In March 2010, Dessner co-curated
1720-513: Is a blending of visual and performance art with live music. The piece is a collaborative song cycle written and performed with Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner alongside Icelandic artists Gyða and Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, formerly of the Icelandic band múm . It was commissioned by Eaux Claires Festival and made its world premiere in 2015 where it served as the official starting point of the festival on both Friday and Saturday. Forever Love marked
1806-474: Is a wide-ranging tribute to the songwriting and experimentalism of the Dead which took four years to record, features over 60 artists from varied musical backgrounds, 59 tracks and is almost 6 hours long. All profits are helping to fight for AIDS/ HIV and related health issues around the world through the Red Hot Organization. Day of the Dead is the follow-up to 2009's Dark Was The Night (4AD),
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#17327765687021892-478: Is also featured on the "death speaks" record, which he produced. Dessner and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead performed "The Music Of Jonny Greenwood And Bryce Dessner" as part of the 2012 Holland Festival . For the performance, Bryce composed a piece entitled "Lachrimae" as well as performed two other pieces with his brother Aaron Dessner and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. The program was performed at
1978-402: Is based on the traditional Holy Week service in which 15 candles are gradually extinguished. Dessner, in his own words, "inverts the service" drawing the listener from darkness into light. Tenebre premiered May 7, 2011, at LSO St. Luke's and featured the pre-recorded vocals of Sufjan Stevens. In 2012, Dessner wrote and dedicated Little Blue Something to the ensemble. The piece was inspired by
2064-498: Is dedicated to Dessner's friend and collaborator, Alejandro González Iñárritu , who also designed the album cover. Also in spring 2019, New York's Metropolitan Museum , for one of its first contemporary installations, featured the song Death is Elsewhere written by Bryce alongside Aaron Dessner , Ragnar Kjartansson, Gyda Valtýsdóttir and Kristín Anna. Dessner now resides in Paris and has been increasingly active composing for major European ensembles and soloists. Dessner has written
2150-548: Is taken from the dance techniques of ballet , contemporary dance , jazz dance , hip hop dance , folk dance , techno , K-pop , religious dance, pedestrian movement, or combinations of these. The word choreography literally means "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" (circular dance, see choreia ) and "γραφή" (writing). It first appeared in the American English dictionary in the 1950s, and "choreographer"
2236-840: Is the longest-running choreography competition in the world (started c. 1982 ), organised by the Ballett Gesellschaft Hannover e.V. It took place online during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, returning to the stage at the Theater am Aegi in 2022. Gregor Zöllig, head choreographer of dance at the Staatstheater Braunschweig was appointed artistic director of the competition in 2020. The main conditions of entry are that entrants must be under 40 years of age, and professionally trained. The competition has been run in collaboration with
2322-739: The Big Ears Festival in Knoxville Tennessee . The MusicNOW Festival was founded by Dessner in April 2006. The festival is an annual showcase of the best in contemporary music, featuring musicians from around the world, and is held in Cincinnati , Ohio. The first festival was held at the small downstairs room at the Cincinnati CAC and featured performances from Wilco 's Glenn Kotche, The Books , Erik Freidlander, Bell Orchestre, Burmese drummer Kyaw Kyaw Naing, and
2408-601: The Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam and the Muziekgebouw Frits Philips in Eindhoven. After the success of Planetarium , Dessner further collaborated with Sufjan Stevens, providing additional guitar tracks on Stevens' " My Rajneesh " and " Make Me an Offer I Cannot Refuse " in 2020. He made a guest appearance on Stevens' tenth album Javelin , playing both acoustic and electric guitar on
2494-503: The New York Philharmonic ), Kronos Quartet , Carnegie Hall , BAM Next Wave Festival , Barbican Centre , Edinburgh International Festival , Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival (Cork, Ireland), Sydney Festival , eighth blackbird , Sō Percussion , New York City Ballet , and many others. His work, Murder Ballades, was featured on eighth Blackbird's album Filament , an album he also produced and performed on, which won
2580-705: The Prix de Lausanne and the next year, he was the recipient of the Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise. In 2010, he was made Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture. Millepied met actress Natalie Portman on the set of Black Swan in early 2009 and left his partner at the time, Isabella Boylston , a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre , to begin
2666-615: The Tanja Liedtke Foundation since her death in 2008, and from 2021 a new production prize has been awarded by the foundation, to complement the five other production awards. The 2021 and 2022 awards were presented by Marco Goecke , then director of ballet at the Staatstheater Hannover . There are a number of other international choreography competitions, mostly focused on modern dance. These include: The International Online Dance Competition (IODC)
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2752-422: The design itself. A choreographer is one who creates choreographies by practising the art of choreography, a process known as choreographing . It most commonly refers to dance choreography . In dance, choreography. may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation . Dance choreography is sometimes called dance composition . Aspects of dance choreography include
2838-518: The "arranger of dance as a theatrical art", with one well-known master being of the late 18th century being Jean-Georges Noverre , with others following and developing techniques for specific types of dance, including Gasparo Angiolini , Jean Dauberval , Charles Didelot , and Salvatore Viganò . Ballet eventually developed its own vocabulary in the 19th century, and romantic ballet choreographers included Carlo Blasis , August Bournonville , Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa . Modern dance brought
2924-435: The 17th and 18th centuries, social dance became more separated from theatrical dance performances. During this time the word choreography was applied to the written record of dances, which later became known as dance notation , with the meaning of choreography shifting to its current use as the composition of a sequence of movements making up a dance performance. The ballet master or choreographer during this time became
3010-601: The 2016 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance . Dessner has collaborated with artists such as Philip Glass , Steve Reich , Paul Simon , Sufjan Stevens , Nico Muhly , Jonny Greenwood , Ryuichi Sakamoto , Alejandro González Iñárritu , Terry Riley , Justin Peck , Ragnar Kjartansson , Katia and Marielle Labèque , and Taylor Swift , among others. Dessner is the founder of the MusicNOW Festival , co-founder of Copenhagen's HAVEN festival, and co-curator of
3096-470: The 2016 Golden Globes and a nomination in the 2017 Grammy Awards for Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media category. Dessner's piece Tour Eiffel was featured in the 2015 Palme d'Or winner Dheepan , directed by Jacques Audiard. Tour Eiffel is performed by the Kronos Quartet and Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Bryce and his brother Aaron Dessner co-composed the score for Transpecos , which won
3182-491: The 59 tracks on the compilation, many feature a house band made up of Bryce, Aaron, fellow The National bandmates and brothers Scott and Bryan Devendorf , Josh Kaufman (who co-produced the project), and Conrad Doucette along with Sam Cohen and Walter Martin. The National have a couple of tracks on the album, including "Peggy-O," "Morning Dew" and "I Know You Rider." A Day of the Dead live performance took place in August 2016 at
3268-412: The 8-and-a-half-minute track "Shit Talk". Dessner also collaborated with Richard Reed Parry of The Arcade Fire on Parry's album Music for Heart and Breath . In 2020, Bryce composed orchestrations for Taylor Swift 's eighth studio album, Folklore , which was produced and co-written by his brother Aaron Dessner. In 2020, he also collaborated with Swift on her ninth studio album, Evermore , with
3354-547: The Audience Award at the 2016 South by Southwest . They also worked together on the score for 2013 film Big Sur , an adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by Jack Kerouac . The film debuted on January 23, 2013, at the Sundance Film Festival , where it received positive reviews. In 2007, Dessner and Padma Newsome's quartet, Clogs , had their music serve as the soundtrack to the film Turn
3440-579: The Clogs. The following year the festival was moved to the Cincinnati Memorial Hall, which would become its home for the next several years. As the festival grew and established itself as an important annual cultural event, Dessner continued to curate line-ups that featured risk-taking artists who do not fit neatly into genre-defined categories. MusicNOW celebrated its ten-year anniversary of the festival in 2015. To mark this special occasion
3526-595: The Crawford Art Gallery from the 14 to the 16th of September. Michelberger Music was a not-for-profit, one-off gathering of artists at the Funkhaus in Berlin for a weekend-long festival of music curated and produced by Bryce along with his brother Aaron Dessner, Justin Vernon, Vincent Moon, André de Ridder, Brandon Reid, Ryan Olson and Berlin's Michelberger Hotel. The festival took place October 1–2, 2016 in
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3612-583: The Light," performed live with Yorke in Paris, London and Berlin along with a new arrangement of Yorke's "Gawpers." In 2022, the Quartet premiered a new commission by Anna Thorvaldsdottir entitled "What Things Become" at London's Southbank Centre. On April 23, 2023, the Quartet made its US premiere at New York City's The Town Hall in a concert benefitting The Kitchen, followed by engagements in Austin, San Diego, Costa Mesa, Los Angeles, Stanford, Toronto, and New Haven in
3698-572: The Michelberger Music Festival makers for a second edition, which was now called PEOPLE. This time 200 artists created across 30 Studios and performed across 8 stages over 170 unique performances at the historic Funkhaus in Berlin. Once again, all artists met one week prior to discover new music and engage with each other. PEOPLE was a non-hierarchical gathering put together by the artists with full creative freedom. There were no sponsors or brands. No line up. No artist fees. 100% of
3784-678: The NYCB in 2011. He initiated the LA Dance Project, leading it from 2011 to 2014. He was the Director of Dance at the Paris Opera Ballet from October 2014 to 2016. He choreographed and performed as a dancer in the 2010 movie Black Swan , and choreographed the "sandwalk" in Dune . Millepied was born in Bordeaux , France. He is the youngest of three sons. His ballet training started at
3870-483: The Paris Opera Ballet on 4 February 2016 and was succeeded by Aurélie Dupont . Millepied has commissioned and collaborated with contemporary composers including David Lang , Nico Muhly , Thierry Escaich , Daniel Ott , and Philip Glass . The Jerome Robbins Trust and Foundation has underwritten Millepied's work and donors include philanthropists Anne Bass and Arlene Cooper. In 2001, Millepied's dancing
3956-796: The Performing Arts , as part of the Ellnora Festival, and its New York premiere in October 2009 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music . It has since been performed at the Holland Festival and the Barbican. Tunde Adebimpe , a member of the band TV on the Radio joined Dessner, Aaron, and Ritchie for the Barbican Centre performance. Forever Love, a work with renowned Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson ,
4042-497: The River (2007). Dessner is a frequent collaborator with many respected artists, including Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Alejandro Iñarritú, Paul Simon, Sufjan Stevens, Caroline Shaw, Johnny Greenwood, Bon Iver, Justin Peck, Jennifer Koh, Kelley O'Connor, Ragnar Kjartansson and Nico Muhly. "The Most Incredible Thing" is a ballet created by Dessner, Justin Peck and Marcel Dzama. Based on Hans Christian Andersen 's dark 1870 fairy tale of
4128-577: The Sea; Suite from There Will Be Blood." Performed by the Copenhagen Philharmonic and conducted by Andre de Ridder, the album features three of Dessner's orchestral works ( St. Carolyn by the Sea , Lachrimae and Raphael ) as well as the suite from There Will Be Blood by Jonny Greenwood. May 19, 2015, marked the release on Brassland of Music for Wood and Strings , an album-length work composed by Dessner and performed by Sō Percussion on
4214-970: The Wind for Bang on a Can All Stars ; Lachrimae for the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Scottish Ensemble, and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra; St. Carolyn by the Sea for the American Composers Orchestra and Muziekcentrum Eindhoven; and El Chan for piano quartet or piano duo, and which is widely toured by Katia and Marielle Labèque . His evening-length oratorio Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) includes libretto by Korde Arrington Tuttle and poems by Patti Smith and Essex Hemphill, featuring vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, soprano Alicia Hall Moran, tenor Isaiah Thomas and dancer/choreographer Martell Ruffin, and combining 16th-century madrigals, blues and post-modern musical influences. Produced by ArKtype and directed by Kaneza Schaal,
4300-661: The age of eight with his mother, Catherine Flory, a former ballet dancer. His father is Denys Millepied. Between the ages of 13 and 16, he studied with Michel Rahn at the Conservatoire National in Lyon , France. In the summer of 1992 Millepied attended classes at the School of American Ballet (SAB) and returned to study full-time in 1993, with a scholarship from the French Ministry ( Bourse Lavoisier or Lavoisier Scholarship). Early in his career, Millepied
4386-547: The ballet's world debut. The song was performed by eighth blackbird in October 2014 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as live music accompaniment for a show by the L.A. Dance Project. In addition, important past compositions by Dessner include three string quartets for Kronos Quartet ( Aheym, Tenebre and Little Blue Something ); Tour Eiffel for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus; O Shut Your Eyes Against
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#17327765687024472-501: The cello ensemble for Fondation Louis Vuitton and Gautier Capuçon 's Classe d'Excellence , which premiered in June 2019. Concerto for Two Pianos, written for Katia and Marielle Labèque, premiered with London Philharmonic Orchestra in April 2018. Other compositions include: His work, Murder Ballades, was inspired by American folk music and written for the multiple Grammy-winning new-music ensemble eighth blackbird. The group premiered
4558-410: The company premiered two new pieces. The first premiere was Murder Ballads , choreographed by Justin Peck with music by Bryce Dessner . Next on the program was the premiere of Morgan's Last Chug choreographed and with light and sound design by Emanuel Gat. In January 2014, L.A. Dance Project announced that its new home venue would be the Theatre at Ace Hotel . By June 2016, L.A. Dance Project formed
4644-528: The compositional use of organic unity , rhythmic or non-rhythmic articulation, theme and variation, and repetition. The choreographic process may employ improvisation for the purpose of developing innovative movement ideas. In general, choreography is used to design dances that are intended to be performed as concert dance . The art of choreography involves the specification of human movement and form in terms of space, shape, time and energy, typically within an emotional or non-literal context. Movement language
4730-453: The copyright claims after the district court concluded that his two-second, four-beat sequence of dance steps was not protectable under copyright law. Bryce Dessner In addition to his work with the National, Dessner is known for his work as an independent composer. His orchestral, chamber, and vocal compositions have been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic , ensemble intercontemporain , Metropolitan Museum of Art (for
4816-570: The family moved from Paris to Los Angeles. Portman and Millepied separated in 2023 after it was reported that Millepied was involved in an extramarital affair. Their divorce was finalized in March 2024. George Balanchine August Bournonville Peter Martins Jerome Robbins Richard Tanner Christopher Wheeldon Choreographer Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to
4902-467: The festival Sounds from a Safe Harbour. He is a founding member of the improvisatory instrumental group Clogs and co-founder of Brassland Records . In 2018, Dessner was named one of eight creative and artistic partners for the San Francisco Symphony as part of incoming Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen 's new leadership model for the orchestra in 2020. He has a master's degree in music from Yale University . Dessner, along with his twin brother Aaron ,
4988-608: The festival also released "MusicNOW – 10 Years," a compilation album collecting live recordings of some of the best performances the series has seen over the past decade. The festival returns to Cincinnati for its twelve season in January 2017. Past festivals have featured festival-only collaborations, such as one between David Cossin and Glenn Kotche ; new music from Sufjan Stevens, Richard Reed Parry (of Arcade Fire ); and performances by Tinariwen , Steve Reich, Owen Pallett , The National (band), Grizzly Bear (band) , Joanna Newsom , Kronos Quartet and many, many more. Dessner curated
5074-399: The festival expanded to include five nights of performances in three venues. The year's festival included performances from Lone Bellow , Mina Tindle , Perfume Genius , The National, Sō Percussion, Butt Nothings, Will Butler , and many others. Continuing the tradition from last year, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra was featured throughout the weekend. In honor of the ten-year anniversary
5160-422: The festival on September 16 at the Cork Opera House. Other marquee acts were Lisa Hannigan and Aaron Dessner with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra on September 14, and Bon Iver on September 15, both also at the Cork Opera House. A myriad of other musicians played in venues around the city across the weekend, as well as the festival featuring Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson presenting his piece "Guilt Trip" at
5246-415: The film. In 2010, he was the leading man in a short film co-directed by Asa Mader and starring Léa Seydoux , called Time Doesn't Stand Still . In 2012, Millepied founded The Amoveo Company, a multimedia production company and art collective. He has directed a number of short films in collaboration with various artists, including Mark Bradford , Philip Glass , IO Echo , Zeds Dead , and Lil Buck . On
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#17327765687025332-530: The full theatrical world premiere with co-commissioner and lead producing partner University Musical Society at the Power Center of Ann Arbor, on March 14, 2019. Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) was Dessner's first major theatrical work, and among the only rights granted for use of Mapplethorpe's images in performance. The ballet, Frame of Mind , choreographed by Sydney Dance Company's Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela and featuring Dessner's string quartet compositions Aheym and Tenebre , has been toured all over
5418-457: The historical radio recording studios of the former GDR. Before the festival, all the artists spent a week together in Berlin, rehearsing and working in the spaces where the shows took place. The festival featured 80 artists, including Bon Iver, Mouse on Mars' Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner, Erlend Øye, My Brightest Diamond's Shara Nova, Lisa Hannigan, Damien Rice, Woodkid, Boysnoize, Beirut and many more. On August 18 and 19, 2018, Bryce returned with
5504-449: The invitation of Los Angeles Music Center board member and TV host Nigel Lythgoe , Millepied was a guest judge on the dance competition show So You Think You Can Dance on 22 August 2012. In 2014, Millepied became the Artistic Advisor of the new Dance Academy at the Colburn School in Downtown Los Angeles, joining fellow former-principal dancers with the New York City Ballet, Jenifer Ringer and James Fayette . In 1994, he received
5590-731: The main rules for choreography are that it must impose some kind of order on the performance, within the three dimensions of space as well the fourth dimension of time and the capabilities of the human body. In the performing arts , choreography applies to human movement and form. In dance , choreography is also known as dance choreography or dance composition. Choreography is also used in a variety of other fields, including opera , cheerleading , theatre , marching band , synchronized swimming , cinematography , ice skating , gymnastics , fashion shows , show choir , cardistry , video game production, and animated art . The International Choreographic Competition Hannover, Hanover , Germany,
5676-416: The music of Irena and Vojtech Havel, who blend early music with Czech folk music. It was premiered by Kronos on May 31, 2012, at the Ensems Festival in Valencia, Spain. On March 17, 2016, Bryce and Aaron Dessner announced Day of the Dead , a charity tribute album to the Grateful Dead released by 4AD on May 20, 2016. Day of the Dead was created, curated and produced by Bryce and Aaron. The compilation
5762-454: The musical director for Matthew Ritchie's 'The Morning Line' installation, collaborating with Ritchie and a number of contemporary composers, including Lee Ranaldo and Evan Ziporyn . In 2011, Dessner collaborated with Ritchie again, composing a song entitled "To The Sea," which was used for Matthew Ritchie's performance art piece 'Monstrance.' 'Monstrance' was performed in November 2011 on Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California. The performance
5848-440: The objective of presenting new works throughout the city. L.A. Dance Project's inaugural performance, commissioned by The Music Center was held at Walt Disney Concert Hall on 22 September 2012. Later that year, Millepied and L.A. Dance Project dancer Amanda Wells performed a 30-minute duet entitled "Framework" at the Museum of Contemporary Art . The dance collective's first program featured a Millepied premiere, Moving Parts , with
5934-421: The piece in Eindhoven in April 2013 and featured it on their 2015 album "Filament." In addition to his work being featured on "Filament," Dessner produced the album which won the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance in 2016. Justin Peck's dance with the same name, created for the L.A. Dance Project, also features Murder Ballades as its soundtrack. In September 2013, Lyon, France, hosted
6020-417: The popular game Fortnite. Hanagami published a YouTube video in 2017 featuring a dance he choreographed to the song "How Long" by Charlie Puth, and Hanagami claimed that Fortnight's "It's Complicated" "emote" copied a portion of his "How High" choreography. Hanagami's asserted claims for direct and contributory copyright infringement and unfair competition. Fortnite-maker Epic Games ultimately won dismissal of
6106-413: The position of director of dance. He officially succeeded Brigitte Lefèvre on 15 October 2014. During his time at the Paris Opera Ballet, Millepied brought in William Forsythe as an associate choreographer and collaborator on the new Academy, an in-house training program for choreographers. Millepied's first season opened with a celebrity-filled gala that raised over a million euros. He also established
6192-606: The same name, the ballet was written for the New York City Ballet and premiered at Lincoln Center in New York on February 2, 2016. The piece was performed throughout the New York City Ballet's 2016 season and was brought to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in March 2016. Planetarium is a song cycle celebrating the solar system created by Dessner, Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens, and James McAlister. The piece
6278-507: The score for the major Netflix film The Two Popes (2019) directed by Fernando Meirelles , recorded with London Contemporary Orchestra at London's Abbey Road Studios . In October 2015, Dessner was tapped along with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto , to compose the score for the Oscar Award-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu film The Revenant (2015). They received a nomination for Best Original Score in
6364-430: The second annual Eaux Claires Festival (August 12–13) featuring Jenny Lewis , Matthew Houck, Lucius , Will Oldham , Sam Amidon , Richard Reed Parry, Justin Vernon , Bruce Hornsby , Ruban Nielson and The National. In 2018 Dessner's extended collaboration with pianists Katia and Marielle Làbeque formalized into Dream House Quartet with the addition of guitarist and composer David Chalmin of La Terre Invisible, realizing
6450-539: The song "Coney Island" having features from Dessner and The National. In 2022, Dessner began a multi-year residency with the Yale Schwarzman Center as its inaugural Artist-in-Residence in Music, produced in collaboration with ArKtype, commissioning several new works by female composers including a new work for Julia Bullock by Composer Carolyn Yarnell as part of Bullock's History's Persistent Voice series,
6536-605: The work was created in partnership with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. It explored the work of the photographer through the lens of its African-American subjects via Tuttle's deeply personal view of the contradictions and inherent racism within the artist's adoration and deification of the Black body, often eluding its humanism. It premiered as a concert version conducted by Sara Jobin with co-commissioner LA Philharmonic at Disney Hall in Los Angeles on March 5, 2019, followed by
6622-473: The world and has won several Helpmann Awards. In January 2012, Dessner signed to Chester Novello Publishing for his concert music. The first recordings of Dessner's compositions, performed by the Kronos Quartet, were released in 2013 by Anti-Records. The album, "Aheym," features four of Dessner's compositions: Tenebre, Little Blue Something , Tour Eiffel, and Aheym. On March 4, 2014, Deutsche Grammophon /Universal Music Classics released "St Carolyn By
6708-602: Was a large commission for the BAM Next Wave Festival created by Bryce, Aaron Dessner and visual artist Matthew Ritchie. Together they created a work loosely based on the Mayan creation story 'Popol Vuh' that includes a 12 piece orchestra and four guest singers: Kim Deal , Kelley Deal , Matt Berninger , and Shara Worden . The work had its world premiere on September 11, 2009, at the Krannert Center for
6794-533: Was accompanied by a multi-media exhibition at L&M Arts, LA. On July 2, 2009, Dessner performed Steve Reich's " 2×5 " premiere alongside Reich at the Manchester International Festival. On Wednesday, January 25, 2012, at Stanford University and Friday, January 27, 2012, at Carnegie Hall, Dessner performed the world premiere of David Lang's new composition "death speaks" with Nico Muhly, Shara Worden , and Owen Pallett . Dessner
6880-599: Was co-commissioned by Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, the Barbican Centre and the Sydney Opera House and had its first run of European shows in March 2012. Planetarium has been performed at the Barbican Centre in London, Muziektheater in Amsterdam, the Sydney Opera House in Australia, Salle Pleyel in Paris and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in April 2013, where it had a four-night run. "The Long Count"
6966-553: Was first used as a credit for George Balanchine in the Broadway show On Your Toes in 1936. Before this, stage credits and movie credits used phrases such as "ensembles staged by", "dances staged by", or simply "dances by" to denote the choreographer. In Renaissance Italy , dance masters created movements for social dances which were taught, while staged ballets were created in a similar way. In 16th century France, French court dances were developed in an artistic pattern. In
7052-531: Was introduced in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a Grand Prix worth US$ 1,000 . Section 102(a)(4) of the Copyright Act provides protection in “choreographic works” that were created after January 1, 1978, and are fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Under copyright law, choreography is “the composition and arrangement of a related series of dance movements and patterns organized into
7138-503: Was launched with a commission, expected to last two years, from Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Los Angeles Music Center . The company's operating budget is about $ 1 million a year. Millepied partnered with composer Nico Muhly , producer Charles Fabius, composer Nicholas Britell, and Matthieu Humery to found the company. In 2012, L.A. Dance Project established a full-time residence at Los Angeles Theatre Center with
7224-464: Was mentored by choreographer Jerome Robbins , who took an interest in him. At SAB's 1994 Spring Workshop he originated a principal role in Jerome Robbins' premiere of 2 and 3 Part Inventions and also received the Prix de Lausanne . Millepied joined New York City Ballet's corps de ballet in 1995, was promoted to soloist in 1998 and became principal dancer in 2002. Millepied also became
7310-572: Was motion-captured for the animated children's film Barbie in the Nutcracker , along with that of other New York City Ballet dancers. His dancing was again captured for the 2003 Barbie film Barbie of Swan Lake . In 2009, he served as choreographer for Black Swan , a psychological thriller directed by Darren Aronofsky which stars Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as ballet dancers in New York City. He also danced and appeared in
7396-475: Was named the 243rd greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone in 2023. Dessner grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio , with his twin brother, Aaron Dessner . Dessner was raised as Jewish and has Polish Jewish and Russian Jewish ancestry. Dessner attended high school at Cincinnati Country Day School and graduated in 1994. Dessner's compositions draw on elements from baroque and folk music, late Romanticism, and modernism, as well as minimalism. He composed
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