As Eternity Flows is chamber music for all the senses.

The show brings classical music, contemporary dance, and light into intimate collaboration, conceived by Delirium Musicum violinist and director Étienne Gara.

7 musicians and 6 dancers shift between acoustic and visual roles. As the piece unfolds, movement becomes rhythm and sound, creating unexpected connections between the artists. The music ranges from Vivaldi to Philip Glass, alongside world premieres by Jacques Rebotier and Clarice Assad. Together, music, dance, and visual elements create a constantly changing world and an evolving, shared language across artistic disciplines.

Gara is joined by LA Dance Project dancer-choreographer Shu Kinouchi and light whisperer François-Pierre Couture, each bringing a distinct artistic voice to the collaboration. Influenced by their culturally and artistically multifaceted backgrounds, they revisit the old while exploring the new, bringing together Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

A poetic performance, As Eternity Flows invites each audience member to make their own connections and interpretations of what they see and hear.

Its visceral impact engages audiences across classical music, dance, cross-cultural programming, and beyond. 

As Eternity Flows premieres at The Soraya, in Los Angeles, on March 13th, 2027.

TOURING FORMATS: 3 to 13 artists, adaptable to a wide range of venues and spatial configurations. 

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• THE CORE ARTISTS:

Étienne Gara

Violin virtuoso and visionary producer Étienne Gara is a barrier-breaking artist known for creating performance experiences that unite genres, people, and ideas. During tenures as Artist in Residence at The Soraya Performing Arts Center and the USC Brain & Creativity Institute, he has captained such timely and diverse artistic explorations as “Treelogy” - a musical homage to the resilience of the iconic trees of California after wildfires - and “Sketches of Miles,” which married the classical and the jazz in a paean to the mastery of legendary trumpeter Miles Davis. He tours extensively in the US and Canada, Europe, and Asia, and recorded his French Recital CD on the 1714 Leonora Jackson Stradivarius. He is a Warner Classics exclusive artist with his award-winning chamber orchestra, Delirium Musicum (Seasons - 2023, and Cabinet of Curiosities - 2025).

Shu Kinouchi

Shu Kinouchi is a ballet dancer and multidisciplinary artist from a suburban town near Yokohama, Japan. Shu aims for his choreography to relate and connect to social conditions through movement, examining and finding abstract communications, acknowledgements, and reactions between himself and objects in space. His choreographic work blends ballet, martial arts, theater, and performance art, often drawing from the nuance and restraint of Japanese unspoken culture. He is currently a danser at Benjamin Millepied's LA Dance Project.

François-Pierre Couture

François-Pierre Couture is an award-winning designer originally from Montréal. Creatively, he seeks out simplicity and imagination - utilizing raw materials, unconventional lighting sources, and mix media juxtaposed with traditional theatrical devices. He has worked with such artists and troupes as Robert Lepage, Jocelyne Montpetit, Dominic Champagne, Benjamin Millepied, and Cirque du Soleil.