Helios Dance Theater

Helios Dance Theater is a Los Angeles-based contemporary company that has premiered work at Lincoln Center in New York City, The Royal Opera House in London, Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Skirball Museum, REDCAT, Getty Center, and Ford Amphitheater in Los Angeles, among others. Helios premiered Minor Obsessions, a major... new piece of repertoire, on March 5, 2017 in Los Angeles at the Ace Hotel Theatre, with a second premiere of duets at Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens scheduled for April 2017. The company starred in a mixed virtual reality video artwork called Heroes at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and collaborated with Dreamworks Animation in 2016 for a series of performances about choreography for animated films. Helios' "Stay By Me" (2016) choreography and video was featured in the Huffington Post, People magazine, and Glamour magazine, and their performances have received rave reviews from the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, CNN, and Dance Magazine since they burst onto the scene in the late 1990s. "Powerful, witty and sharp-edged, Helios Dance Theater presents a knockout program," recommends the Los Angeles Times. WATCH: Stay By Me. Laura Gorenstein Miller is the founder, choreographer and Artistic Director of Helios Dance Theater. "Miller's approach translates into a well-crafted balance of inward retrospection and physical risk, with Helios dancers ... succumbing and defying their inner turmoil as they whip and fly about... arching backward to impossible depths at one turn, then, in the next, vehemently wrenching torsos and limbs forward as if to exorcise every last vulnerability those arches implied," reports LA Weekly. Miller was the only choreographer from the United States to be selected to participate in Genesis, the Milwaukee Ballet's international choreographic competition, where her work won an award of excellence. She has also choreographed for the American Ballet Theatre, BodyTraffic, and CalArts. Miller's commercial credits include the choreography ...Read More