Jordan Roth Combines Fashion, Theater and Choreography For Performance at the Louvre

 This Thursday night in Paris, after the final show on the haute couture schedule ended, an altogether different show took place at the Louvre. Jordan Roth presented 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 was a first-ever moment for Roth, whose fearless embrace of outré style and affable theatricality have gone a long way toward 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, his work was 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).