AS THE LOS ANGELES CULTURAL RENNISANCE CONTINUES ANOTHER FINE ARTS COMPANY MAKE ITS HOME IN LOS ANGELES

The International Cultural Center in Los Angeles announces that it will be home to the Los Angeles Modern and Ballet Company. The Company debuts November 16, 2003.

(PRWEB) September 21, 2003 - Los Angeles continues to evolve as a major city for the classical arts. The most recent evolution came as the Scottish Rite Auditorium announced that it would become home to the Los Angeles Modern and Ballet Company or Lambco.

Lambco is the brainchild of wonder kid dancer and choreographer, Omhmar Griffin. Trained in classical ballet at the Royal Ballet Academy in London England, as well as the Joffery Ballet and Dance Theater of Harlem, this graduate of the Fame" High School in New York City began his professional career at 16 with the Washington Ballet, the resident company at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Griffin continued his artistic growth and career working artistically diverse productions that included George C. Wolfes Jellys Last Jam", Andrew Lloyd Webers Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat", and performances with the Metropolitan Opera.

Upon relocating to Los Angeles Omhmar became fascinated with the impact that pop culture had upon dance and thus began his choreographic exploration on how classical dance could also influence and integrate some of the commercial aspects of music and movement. Lambco is the result of this choreographic exploration. Our approach to producing quality work considers many aspects of current choreographic styles, fashion, theater, film & television and pop culture," Omhmar explains. Ideas like setting all of the traditional Ballets in Los Angeles and combining film and television with the stage will help Lambcos efforts to save classical dance art in Los Angeles."

Lambco will move into the Scottish Rite Auditorium which is housed at the International Cultural Center located in the heart of the Wilshire Historical District at 4357 Wilshire Boulevard in September 2004. This move is timely, as many other major cultural organizations are moving into new venues. This artistic growth in Los Angeles includes the housing of the Academy Awards in the new Kodak Theater and the much touted move of the Los Angeles Philharmonic into the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Griffin is confident that his full-scale repertory company will captivate audiences in Los Angeles and beyond. Due to his vast experiences and many associations, Omhmar has been able to attract highly talented dancers, choreographers, musicians, and collaborative artists locally and nationally, who exemplify classical arts at its highest form.

Lambco debuts at the Scottish Rite Auditorium on November 16, 2003. For this gala performance, the company will present a romantic evening at the ballet and feature guests from New York, San Francisco and Korea.

There is no other company like Lambco in Los Angeles," Omhmar enthusiastically confirms. We can handle classical, modern and an array of other dance forms that appeal to a diverse and discerning audience." Adding what has become known as his best description of what Lambco does, Omhmar declares, Its ballet. Get into it!"