The Los Angeles Ballet will perform Jan. 30-Feb. 1. (photo by Cheryl Mann Photography)

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and Los Angeles Ballet are proud to present “Memoryhouse,” a full-evening work by LAB’s artistic director Melissa Barak, performances will take place in the Bram Goldsmith Theater at the Wallis in Beverly Hills Jan. 30-Feb. 1.

This presentation of “Memoryhouse” is the start of a new partnership between The Wallis and Los Angeles Ballet. “Memoryhouse” is an abstract work composed of vignettes commemorating World War II and in particular, the Holocaust. Set to Max Richter’s powerful album of the same name, “Memoryhouse” will reflect on both the somber as well as more heroic moments that illuminate this period in human history.

“Dance is tricky in a sense,” Barak said. “The story of the Holocaust has such a darkness and a weight to it, the last thing you would want is for dance to take something of that nature too literally. For me, it was all about keeping it symbolic, removing the personal emotion as performers and to approach it as a ballet that focuses on symbolism and poetry.”

The Wallis along with the Holocaust Museum LA is also presenting a screening of “Making of Memoryhouse” on Thursday, Jan. 23 at 6:30 p.m. in The Wallis Lovelace Studio Theater. The documentary film follows choreographer Barak as she dives in headfirst with her creative team to bring this ballet inspired by the Holocaust to emotional life. Through performance and rehearsal clips, as well as interviews and powerful survivor testimony, audiences are brought into the creative process where Barak works on building a theatrical dance experience like no other.  The post-screening conversation will feature Barak, Holocaust survivors and HMLA’s chief impact officer Jordanna Gessler.

Tickets are available at the wallis.com. The Wallis is located at 9390 Santa Monica Blvd.