BODY LIVE LIVE MUSIC

BODY LIVE LIVE MUSIC is an ongoing venture dedicated to site-inspired performance projects that bring music, movement, and environment into dialogue. Through works created for artistic and natural landscapes, co-founders Kate Nordstrum and Dimitri Chamblas explore the relationship between body, sound, and place, guided by a commitment to 'shared reality'.

Chamblas and Nordstrum began collaborating in 2019, laying the foundation for the artistic partnership that has evolved into BODY LIVE LIVE MUSIC. Current projects include an expansive staging of environmentalist composer John Luther Adams' Crossing Open Ground for 40 musicians and a new commission for the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Rituals festival, where the decommissioned Topanga Tower will be transformed into a living instrument through sound and movement.

Combined, their work has been presented by leading cultural institutions (Opéra national de Paris, The Barbican, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Brooklyn Academy of Music, MOCA Los Angeles, Tate Modern, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Musée du Louvre, Walker Art Center, Performa, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, MASS MoCA, Ultima Festival, Centre Pompidou, Center for the Art of Performance UCLA, Montpellier Dance Festival) 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.

Kate Nordstrum is an artistic director, producer, and curator known for building ambitious, interdisciplinary platforms for new work. She is the founder and owner of Liquid Music, described by The New York Times as "Best of Classical," which launched at The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in 2012. She is co-director of BODY LIVE LIVE MUSIC with choreographer Dimitri Chamblas, a new platform for site-inspired performance projects that bring music, movement, and environment into dialogue. She also serves as Executive Producer, Humanities at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where she leads new initiatives that expand the orchestra's artistic scope through commissions, festivals, and cross-sector partnerships. Her experience includes ongoing work with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Fluxus, Body & Sound, and Rituals festivals, plus individual projects) and roles at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and New York City Center.

Named "Best Independent Producer'' by the Minnesota Star Tribune, Nordstrum's current/recent projects include copresentations and partnerships with the Walker Art Center, Los Angeles Philharmonic, MIT Media Lab, Spoleto Festival USA, Barbican, Brooklyn Academy of Music, ICA Boston, Center for the Art of Performance UCLA, 92NY, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Studio Dimitri Chamblas, MASS MoCA, LA Dance Project, On Being with Krista Tippett, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and New Amsterdam Records.

Across her work, Nordstrum creates frameworks where artists can develop ambitious projects over time and in dialogue with new contexts, audiences, and disciplines. She is known for pairing rigor with openness, bringing together artists, institutions, and communities in ways that expand how music is experienced and presented. Her curatorial vision has been widely recognized, with media describing her as “the most adventurous music curator in town” (MinnPost), “a presenter of rare initiative” (Star Tribune), and “a curatorial powerhouse with international pull” (Minnesota Public Radio).

Dimitri Chamblas is a choreographer, director, and cultural leader whose work expands dance beyond the stage into social, architectural, and interdisciplinary contexts. Since his early collaboration with Boris Charmatz on À bras-le-corps (1993), he has developed an international practice shaped by dialogue, experimentation, and a strong sense of encounter.

His collaborators span dance, music, visual art, film, fashion, and literature, including William Forsythe, Benjamin Millepied, Kim Gordon, Nile Rodgers, Claire Tabouret, Barbara Hannigan, Jonas Kaufmann, and Bret Easton Ellis. Across these projects, he approaches choreography as a shared language that moves fluidly between disciplines and audiences.

He founded and led 3e Scène at the Opéra national de Paris, commissioning original digital works by international artists. He later served as Dean of Dance at California Institute of the Arts, where he supported new approaches to interdisciplinary education and artistic research. His work has been presented by leading institutions including Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Performa, NYU Skirball, and Musée du Louvre.

Through his studio and as co-artistic director of BODY LIVE LIVE MUSIC with curator Kate Nordstrum, Chamblas develops projects that bring together professional and non-professional performers in large-scale, site-responsive works. Across all contexts, he uses dance as a way to connect people, activate spaces, and rethink the relationship between artists, audiences, and institutions. The New York Times has praised his “gift for making the ordinary seem quietly profound.”