A Dancer’s Thousand Feats

Black Swan Choreographer Benjamin Millepied Has Plans For Los Angeles

Benjamin Millepied–former New York City Ballet principal dancer, choreographer of Black Swan, and husband of actress Natalie Portman–already loves Los Angeles. “I fell in love with this city the first time I came dancing in this theater, in the early 2000s,” he told a crowd at the Los Angeles Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, at an event co-presented by the Music Center. But his challenge now is to make Los Angeles fall in love with his new company, the L.A. Dance Project, which will premiere at the Music Center in …