BODY LIVE LIVE MUSIC

Choreographer/director/producer Dimitri Chamblas (Paris Opera, CalArts, Studio Dimitri Chamblas) and curator/artistic director/producer Kate Nordstrum (Liquid Music, Boston Symphony Orchestra) join practices with BODY LIVE LIVE MUSIC, an ongoing venture dedicated to site-inspired performance projects that meld music, movement, and environment in extraordinary ways. Together they focus on artistic and natural landscapes that center body and sound with a commitment to ‘shared reality’—communal art experiences of the highest caliber.

Chamblas and Nordstrum began collaborating in 2019. A defining project of their 2025.26 season is an expansive staging of environmentalist composer John Luther Adams’ Crossing Open Ground for 40 musicians, unfolding across distinctive landscapes nationwide—from a natural amphitheater in Southwest Utah (October 2025), to Elysian Park overlooking downtown Los Angeles (April 2026), to Tanglewood in the Berkshires (August 2026). Each iteration reimagines the work in direct dialogue with its environment, inviting audiences into a deeply embodied convergence of sound, movement, and place. In Spring 2027, BODY LIVE LIVE MUSIC will transform the decommissioned Topanga Tower into a living instrument, invoking sound and movement as part of a communal artistic rite.  

Combined, their work has been presented by leading cultural institutions (Los Angeles Philharmonic, Opéra national de Paris, Brooklyn Academy of Music, MOCA Los Angeles, Carnegie Hall, The Barbican, Tate Modern, Walker Art Center, Musée du Louvre, Performa, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, MASS MoCA, Center for the Art of Performance UCLA, Centre Pompidou) and iconic brands (Chanel, Longchamp, Dom Perignon, Van Cleef & Arpels) in natural sites, historic halls, abandoned structures, floating cinemas, frozen lakes, fashion runways, public parks, and architectural wonders.