lp & dancers

Photo by Lindsey Schleigh

LP & Dancers is a project-based movement company that creates dance works through playfulness and deep collaboration, folding the collaborators’ lived experiences into each work. The company has performed in both traditional and non-traditional venues since its formation in 2021. Lp & dancers has presented work locally at the Wexner Center of the Arts, Columbus Performing Arts Center, Ohio History Center, Columbus Dance Theatre, and McConnell Arts Center as well as nationally in Cleveland, OH, Bellingham, WA, and Chicago, IL.

Turbid Sequence

Premiered in "H2O Danceworks" at the Wexner Center for the Arts

Choreographed by Laura Patterson

Dancers: Emily Kilroy, Jacqueline Bordjadze, Elyse Kassa, Caitlyn Higley, Abbie Armbrecht

Music: Atlas Sound; Conet Project

Human Alchemy

Premiered at the Ohio Poetry Association "Sun & Moon Festival" in Yellow Springs, OH

Choreographed by Laura Patterson in collaboration with Elyse Kassa

Dancers: Laura Patterson, Elyse Kassa

Music by Nils Frahm, Weyes Blood, and Ana Roxanne

Agiocochook

Performed by Bellingham Reperotory Dance in Bellingham, WA

Choreography by Laura Patterson

Dancers: Gabby Malagreca, Juliette Machado, Sam Brigham, Erin Keeney, Soleil Chappelle, Cecelia Hanford

Earth is Us: Forging New Relationships

Performed at the Columbus Performing Arts Center

Choreography by Laura Patterson

Dancers: Caitlyn Higley, Emily Kilroy, Jacqueline Bordjadze, Abbie Armbrecht

Music: Michael Wall, "4 81"

Poetry: Jonathon Graham

Read by: Summit Starr

And the River, nevertheless

Performed in “City Dance Showcase” at Columbus Dance Theatre

Choreography by Laura Patterson

Dancers: Caitlyn Higley, Emily Kilroy, Jacqueline Bordjadze, Abbie Armbrecht

Music:Meditation by Jules Massenet, The Difference Between your Instinct and an Anxiety by Trans Atlantic Rage, I.Allegro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Lighting: Olivia Atley

Video: Brandon Abbott