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South China Morning Post
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Meet Jordan Roth, who just did a live art installation at the Louvre: the Tony Award-winning Broadway producer was behind Hadestown and Kinky Boots, and is the son of billionaire realtor Steven Roth
Edgy Broadway producer Jordan Roth has once again redefined creative boundaries with Radical Acts of Unrelenting Beauty, a trio of groundbreaking live performances held at the Louvre on July 10. The performances were part of La Nuit de la Mode, an evening celebrating the Louvre's first-ever major exhibition of haute couture. Collaborating with president of the Louvre Laurence des Cars, Roth transformed the iconic museum into a living canvas, with elements of the space and its art projected onto various couture pieces. The moment wove fashion, movement and storytelling into a singular immersive experience. Advertisement The work was structured as three vivid tableaux: Red, Wings and Pyramid. Red was an evolving projection of colour and movement onto John Galliano's iconic Dior empress gown, while Wings featured projections of 49 images of wings from the Louvre's collections, from The Winged Victory of Samothrace sculpture, to Raphael's painting of Saint Michael. Pyramid referenced the changing sky above I.M. Pei's glass pyramid structure and 25 paintings in the Louvre's collections. 'From fabric to pyramid, dress to architecture, the boundaries between the exterior and interior world collapse,' Roth wrote on his Instagram of the final piece in the tableau. Jordan Roth at the 2025 Met Gala in New York in May. Photo: @jordan_roth/Instagram Earlier this year, Roth made a striking entrance at the 2025 Met Gala . Described by Vogue as a 'sartorial mic drop', his avant-garde outfit by LaQuan Smith featured draped beading, sweeping black flares, and accessories including a diamond bow tie, a layered hat, and nearly 10-inch heels. The influential Tony Award-winning Broadway producer is now venturing into the fashion art industry and currently serves as the creative director of ATG Entertainment. Here's everything you need to know about Jordan Roth. He's a seven-time Tony Award winner Jordan Roth at the Tony Awards in June. Photo: @joran_roth/Instagram As a producer, Roth has won a total of seven Tony Awards for shows including Hadestown, Kinky Boots, Moulin Rouge: The Musical!, Angels in America and Clybourne Park. He is also the president and majority owner of Jujamcyn Theaters, a major Broadway group overseeing five prestigious venues in New York City. In 2001, Roth revived the 1975 Broadway hit The Rocky Horror Show, for which he and the cast earned four Tony Award nominations. He also produced The Donkey Show, an interactive disco-themed adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream that combined theatre and nightlife and ran off-Broadway and internationally for six years.
Vogue
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Art That Moves: Jordan Roth and Laurence des Cars on Crafting a One-of-a-Kind Performance Piece at the Louvre
Next Thursday night in Paris, after the final show on the haute couture schedule has ended, an altogether different show will take place at the Louvre. Jordan Roth will present 'Radical Acts of Unrelenting Beauty,' a cycle of three live performances in which he uses fashion as a conduit for his impressions of the world's largest museum. It is a first-ever moment for Roth, whose fearless embrace of outré style and affable theatricality have gone a long way towards building a persona beyond his career as an acclaimed Broadway producer and philanthropy-focused impresario. To him, this 'narrative fashion performance' doesn't represent a reinvention so much as an evolution; he describes it as 'an artistic practice that is synthesizing so much of my professional, creative and emotional life so far.' With the support of six dancers and music by Thomas Roussel, he is part of the larger programming for La Nuit de la Mode, an evening that marks the last celebration of the blockbuster 'Louvre Couture' exhibition (even though it runs through late August). We have found each other in a remote wing of the building, inaccessible from the museum, where we will be joined by Laurence des Cars, director of the Louvre since 2021. Roth will spend the next week rehearsing, but has arrived at our meeting dressed très chic in a Dries Van Noten ivory top with sculptural pleating, a black straight skirt and pointed heels from Saint Laurent, and a small bag adorned with a Claude Lalanne bronze flower. So, what to expect? 'We are taking static, solid icons and exploring them through fabric and emotion and movement, which is the vocabulary of fashion,' Roth says. 'Clothes speak very loudly to my body and tell me how they want to be moved.' Consider how most of us visiting the Louvre will find ourselves enthralled by any number of ancient artefacts and masterpieces, or else the architecture itself. Roth has transposed all of this into three themes—'Red,' 'Wings,' and 'Pyramid'—and translated those themes into digital images, to be projected onto white garments of his own design. 'Red' is centered around John Galliano's empress gown from the Christian Dior spring 2005 collection, currently displayed in the Napoleon III apartments as part of the exhibition. 'Wings' entails some 50 wings from across the collections—from the obvious Winged Victory of Samothrace and Raphael's depiction of Saint Michael to small Egyptian amulets. 'Pyramid' takes a cue from the changing sky above I.M. Pei's glass pyramid structure, as well as painted skies by the likes of Andrea Mantegna and Hubert Robert.
