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BALLET HISPÁNICO Eduardo Vilaro, Artistic Director & CEO , , and Brittany Pollack Ballet Hispánico 18+1 Excerpts Calvin Royal III New York Premiere Dormeshia Jamar Roberts by GUSTAVO RAMÍREZ SANSANO Dance Company Music: “Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider” and With guest artists Adrian Danchig-Waring and Joseph Gordon “Mama Teach Me to Dance” by Pérez Prado Dance Company Costumes by GUSTAVO RAMÍREZ SANSANO and SERGIO CORDOBA Lighting Design by SAVANNAH BELL and

Premiere hosts October 13, 2012 Alicia Graf Mack David Hallberg Harris Theater for Music and Dance , IL produced by Center and Nel Shelby Productions Dancers in association with SHELBY COLONA DANDARA VEIGA LENAI WILKERSON Dance Division, The for the Performing Arts 18+1 celebrates Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s 19 years as a choreographer and the vulnerability, care, and hope that comes with each artistic endeavor. In a display of associate producer subtle humor and electric choreography, the movement merges with the playful Martin Wechsler rhythms in Pérez Prado’s music. Sansano draws from his history and memory to take a joyous look at the past, present, and coming future. festival lighting director festival sound supervisor Kate Ashton Alex Neumann Ballet Hispánico salutes Jody and John Arnhold for their visionary leadership and support. Through the generosity of the Arnhold family, Ballet Hispánico will continue to inspire communities around the world for years to come. MetLife Foundation is the Official Tour Sponsor of Ballet Hispánico.

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major support is provided by Jody and John Arnhold

presenting partners Denise R. Sobel • Barbara and David Zalaznick • Perry and Marty Granoff • Caroline Howard Hyman JAMAR ROBERTS of American Dance Theater gratefully acknowledges

Morani/Mungu (Black Warrior/Black God) World Premiere City Center Commission

Choreography by JAMAR ROBERTS Music: “Black Is” by The Last Poets; “The Drum Thing” by John Coltrane, recorded by Johnathan Blake, Dezron Douglas, and Jaleel Shaw; and “You’ll Never Walk Alone” by Nina Simone Costume Design by JERMAINE TERRY Lighting Design by

Dancer JAMAR ROBERTS

This work has been commissioned by New York City Center for the . Lead Sponsor of the Support for new dance works at City Center is provided by Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. 2020 Fall for Dance Festival MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY SARA MEARNS and DAVID HALLBERG Janet Eilber, Artistic Director The Two of Us Lamentation World Premiere City Center Commission

Choreography by MARTHA GRAHAM Choreography by Music: Neun Klavierstücke, Op.3, No. 2 by Zoltán Kodály Music: “I Don’t Know Where I Stand”; “Urge for Going”; Costume Design by MARTHA GRAHAM “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio”; and “Both Sides Now” by Joni Mitchell Original lighting by MARTHA GRAHAM; Adapted by BEVERLY EMMONS Costume Design by HARRIET JUNG & REID BARTELME Lighting Design by KATE ASHTON Premiere January 8, 1930 Dancers Maxine Elliot’s Theatre SARA MEARNS DAVID HALLBERG New York, NY This work has been commissioned by New York City Center for the Fall for Dance Festival.

Dancer Support for new dance works at City Center is provided by Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the NATASHA M. DIAMOND-WALKER Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

Lamentation premiered in New York City on January 8, 1930, at Maxine Elliot’s Theater, to music by the Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály. The dance is performed almost entirely from a seated position, with the dancer encased in a tube of purple jersey. The diagonals and tensions formed by the dancer’s body struggling within the material create a moving sculpture, a portrait which presents the very essence of grief. The figure in this dance is neither human nor animal, neither male nor female: it is grief itself. According to Martha Graham, after one performance of the work she was visited by a woman in the audience who had recently seen her child killed in an accident. Viewing Lamentation enabled her to grieve, as she realized that “grief was a dignified and valid emotion and that I could yield to it without shame.” “Will I ever dance on stage again?” Roberts, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s first Resident Choreographer, City Center Turns the That’s the big question facing dancers today. performs a self-choreographed solo titled From being able to turn, travel, and fly across Morani/Mungu (Black Warrior/Black God). space to being forced to stand still and wait, “My inspiration for this particular work comes Lights Back On for the dancers are in an odd form of stasis. But by from observing the moment that we’re in their nature, they are resilient—adroit at right now in our country,” Roberts said. “And changing speed and direction. And when thinking about how, in this moment and every 2020 Fall for Dance Festival given a chance, they make magic, create moment of Black life, there’s always a type of worlds, and relate what’s on stage to life at duality at play in terms of how Black people by Reanne Rodrigues large. have to move through the world depending on the politics of the moment, time, or space.” That’s what makes this year’s Fall for Dance Festival unlike any other. For many of the Dancers step into artists—all homegrown talent exclusively “The pieces in the the spotlight at based in New York—this will be the first time City Center’s 17th they get to perform on stage after several 2020 Festival are annual Fall for months. And as they continue to navigate Dance Festival. the challenges of filling empty performance like a snapshot of this schedules and finding ways to keep moving, being able to finally dance for an audience moment in time” again gives them the special opportunity to open their hearts and share how this period –Stanford Makishi, has shaped their artistry. VP of Programming “The pieces in the 2020 Festival are like a snapshot of this moment in time,” For internationally renowned choreographer said Stanford Makishi, Vice President of Christopher Wheeldon, this year’s Festival Programming at City Center. “Some works signals a turning point: “I’m extremely proud are introspective while others punctuate the and honored to share the stage with so many programs with moments of joy. Together, esteemed artists. Being in City Center’s they elevate the voices of today’s greatest studios over the past couple of weeks and artists and offer global audiences a unique standing on stage fills me with great hope and unifying experience.” that we will all be back stronger than ever.”

Wheeldon’s piece titled The Two of Us, brings Continuing a Tradition of Commissioning a felicitous pairing center stage as illustri- New Works ous Sara Mearns, a familiar face to City Center As part of City Center’s ongoing commit- audiences, joins ment to support artists in the creation of (ABT) principal dancer and incoming Artistic new work, this year’s Festival includes world Director of David premiere City Center commissions from Kyle Hallberg. Abraham, Dormeshia, Jamar Roberts, and Christopher Wheeldon—four of the most How do these beloved stars feel about adventurous voices in dance today. what will be their first and probably only Jamar Roberts performs Morani/Mungu (Black Warrior/Black God); photo by Christopher Duggan Photography 9 @NYCITYCENTER @NYCITYCENTER 10 “Returning to stage for this year’s Fall for Dance Festival is an opportunity to contribute meaningfully—for the first time in months—to our city’s dance culture.” –Adrian Danchig-Waring

performance together? “To create a brand- her—Lois Bright, Harriet Browne, Cora new work with two epic artists that I admire LaRedd, Jeni LeGon, and Dianne “Lady Di” beyond belief is such an honor,” said Mearns. Walker, to name a few. Dormeshia’s perfor- “David and I have dreamt of dancing with mance comes hot on the heels of her success each other for years...years, and this is our in the highly acclaimed And Still You Must final chance. I’m so grateful to City Center . for making it happen.” Hallberg continued, “This Fall for Dance is bittersweet, as I’ve been a part of so many Festivals in the past Fresh and Familiar Voices Pave the Way for and this will be my last as a dancer. As well, the Future this is my one and only opportunity to dance with an artist that I’ve wanted to dance with For Martha Graham Dance Company’s my entire career.” Natasha M. Diamond-Walker being a part David Hallberg and Sara Mearns perform The Two of Us; photo by Christopher Duggan Photography of this year’s Festival is momentous. “I’m the ABT’s Calvin Royal III makes his debut as a first woman of African American descent Six Twenty-Two—one of the first responses to so much peace,” said Colona. principal dancer—the third Black dancer in to perform this solo [Lamentation] here in the AIDS crisis from the dance community. the Company’s history to achieve this rank, America as a member of the Company,” said “Just being back in the studio is so incredi- And while performing without an audience after dance luminaries Desmond Richardson Diamond-Walker. “I feel like I’m represent- bly healing,” said Gordon. “It’s like I’ve finally in the theater might seem daunting for most and . He performs a solo by ing the whole Company, but also humanity found land after spending months lost at sea. artists, Colona believes that dance transcends multi-award-winning choreographer Kyle at the same time.” This pandemic has forced us all to reconsider physical boundaries: “People come to watch Abraham, a frequent Fall for Dance artist. our most basic human instincts, all of which dance because it makes them feel something. The synergy of this powerful collaboration Lar Lubovitch Dance Company guest artists are embedded within dance.” They become a part of the experience and brings an eye-opening look into how dance Adrian Danchig-Waring and Joseph Gordon, immerse themselves in another world. When evolves and moves forward. New York City Ballet principal dancers and Known for “piercing stereotypes” (The New you watch dance, it can be an escape from partners in real-life, share similar sentiments. York Times), Ballet Hispánico, a leading Latinx within your ‘four walls.’ That’s something Dormeshia, “who no longer uses a last name— “Returning to stage for this year’s Festival dance company opens this year’s Festival everyone could use a bit of.” she’s royalty, she doesn’t need one” is an opportunity to contribute meaning- with their bold and eclectic style of contem- (The New York Times), marks her first featured fully—for the first time in months—to the porary dance, featuring Shelby Colona, Ballet icon Tiler Peck, who performs along- performance at City Center with a piece that city’s dance culture,” said Danchig-Waring. Dandara Veiga, and Lenai Wilkerson. “Just side Ashley Bouder and Brittany Pollack, was honors and pays homage to legendary Black Together with Gordon, he performs the the thought of stepping out onto a stage with recently featured in City Center’s five-part who inspired and influenced enduring and timely male duet from Concerto my co-workers after six months fills me with Studio 5 | Great American Ballerinas series

11 @NYCITYCENTER @NYCITYCENTER 12 among other endeavors during her time off stage. For her, the Festival strengthens the feel- ing of and camaraderie between the dancers: “I love sharing the stage with so many talented and diverse artists, and although we City Center cannot be in the wings cheering each other on like we usually are, I am honored to be dancing has pulled out alongside them digitally this year.” Monday, October 26, 2020 PROGRAM 2 Leading up to the Festival’s opening night, City all the stops Center has pulled out all the stops to make what ASHLEY BOUDER, TILER PECK, was a dream, a reality. To protect the artists, and BRITTANY POLLACK staff, and crew working to produce the Festival, City Center has been closely following guide- Excerpts from Who Cares? lines from medical advisors including repeated COVID-19 testing for everyone involved. And Choreography by © The George Balanchine Trust with a herculean effort that involves hours Music: “I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise”; “Fascinatin’ Rhythm”; of online meetings, conducting safe studio and “My One and Only” by George Gershwin rehearsals, and creating new works via Zoom, Adapted and Orchestrated by HERSHY KAY City Center in partnership with Nel Shelby Staging by GLENN KEENAN Productions is able to share the magic of live Costumes: Inspired by BEN BENSON; performance directly from its stage to you at Designed and Executed by DIANE SCHAUBACH home. Lighting Design by MARK STANLEY

So while audiences cannot gather at City Premiere February 5, 1970 Center for this year’s Festival, the astounding New York State Theater display of artistry that celebrates the indomita- New York, NY ble spirit of dance promises to bring inspiration and joy. “Dance in this moment in New York Dancers and the world is so important because it keeps ASHLEY BOUDER TILER PECK BRITTANY POLLACK dreams alive, it keeps the promise of a better future alive,” Mearns concluded. “It’s always The performance of Who Cares? (excerpts) a Balanchine© Ballet, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine been what’s healed my heart and my soul so I Style© and © Service standards established and provided by the Trust. hope it can do the same for others right now.” Music Credit: George Gershwin : I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise - Fascinatin’ Rhythm - My One and Only Arion recording ARN60332 "Les de Monte-Carlo Vol.2 - Ravel / Gershwin” Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, dir. David Garforth – Arion 1996 – The 2020 Fall for Dance Festival premieres on Courtesy of Arion Music, Paris, France www.arion-music.com October 21 (Program 1) and 26 (Program 2) at 7:30pm ET and is available to view on demand through November 1 for $15 per program. For more information and to purchase digi- tal access, please visit NYCityCenter.org/ FallforDance.

Reanne Rodrigues is the Editorial Content Manager at New York City Center.

13 @NYCITYCENTER Dormeshia performs Lady Swings the Blues; photo by Christopher Duggan Photography NEW YORK CITY CENTER THANKS ITS FALL FOR DANCE SPONSORS

Lead Sponsor Fall for Dance Endowment Bloomberg Philanthropies The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Marjorie S. Isaac Fund for Fall for Dance Major support for Fall for Dance The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation CALVIN ROYAL III Jody and John Arnhold The Irene Diamond Fund of American Ballet Theatre Ford Foundation Additional major support Rockefeller Brothers Fund to be seen Howard Gilman Foundation The Fan Fox and Leslie R. World Premiere City Center Commission Ford Foundation Samuels Foundation, Inc. Rockefeller Brothers Fund Choreography by in collaboration with Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Dance Council CALVIN ROYAL III and Lisa Witten, Chair Music: Boléro by Maurice Ravel, from Ravel: Bolero / Daphnis Et Chloë. Arts Access Fund Barbara Brandt London Symphony Orchestra. Classical © 1995 Arts Music GMBH JLGreene Arts Access Fund in Stuart H. Coleman and Meryl Rosofsky Sound Design by SAM CRAWFORD The New York Community Trust Barbara Dau Costume by KAREN YOUNG Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund Deborah Goodman Davis Scenic Design by DAN SCULLY William and Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust Miki and David Donoho Lighting Design by DAN SCULLY John Philip Falk Presenting Partners Perry B. Granoff Dancer Denise R. Sobel Carol Lippert Gray CALVIN ROYAL III Barbara and David Zalaznick Judith M. Hoffman Perry and Marty Granoff Elizabeth Harpel Kehler This work has been commissioned by New York City Center for the Fall for Dance Festival. Caroline Howard Hyman Alexandra Landegger Hillary Lane Support for new dance works at City Center is provided by Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Fall for Dance Challenge Grant Nancy MacMillan Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Lisa and Richard Witten Irene Shen Mr. and Mrs. Michael Steinberg Additional support for Fall for Dance Diane Winter Sunshine The Shubert Foundation Barbara Zalaznick Joyce F. Menschel The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Patrons Foundation, Inc. Jen Ablon Bonnie Sacerdote The SHS Foundation Carolyn H. Andress Christie C. Salomon Dick and Diana Beattie Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Saul Lisa and Dick Cashin John Leland Sills and Leadership support for dance at City Center Jennie L. and Richard K. Elizabeth Papadopoulos The Harkness Foundation for Dance DeScherer Maryann Sudo Linda and Martin Fell Dhuanne and Supporters Gary and Diane Hirsch Douglas Tansill Betty S. Iu Laurie M. Tisch Con Edison Jane Parsons Klein Illumination Fund The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Kate Lear and Jon LaPook Marshall Watson and Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation Ellen G. Levine Paul Sparks C.L.C. Kramer Foundation, Inc. Jessie K. Palmer Cathy and Stephen The Jerome Robbins Foundation Dr. Deborah Pilla Weinroth T. Pope Doreen and Martin Trust for Mutual Understanding Bonnie and Frank Pratt Weisfuse Rajika and Anupam Puri LAR LUBOVITCH DANCE COMPANY DORMESHIA WITH GUEST ARTISTS ADRIAN DANCHIG-WARING and JOSEPH GORDON Lady Swings the Blues Lar Lubovitch, Artistic Director World Premiere City Center Commission Choreography and Conception by DORMESHIA Duet from Concerto Six Twenty-Two Music by DORMESHIA, in collaboration with NOAH GARABEDIAN, WINARD HARPER, Choreography by LAR LUBOVITCH and GABRIEL ROXBURY Music: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A Major, K. 622 Musical Direction by NOAH GARABEDIAN by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Lighting Design by RICH SACCOLITI, Event Systems Lighting, Inc. Staging by TOBIN DEL CUORE Production Manager: ELKA SAMUELS SMITH, Divine Rhythm Productions Lighting Design by CRAIG MILLER; Recreated by JACK MEHLER Lighting Director: CLIFTON TAYLOR Dancer DORMESHIA Premiere April 9, 1986 Musicians NOAH GARABEDIAN WINARD HARPER GABRIEL ROXBURY New York, NY Lady Swings the Blues embraces the glorious interplay between genres of music birthed Dancers by Black culture. This work honors the generations of Black womxn whose essential ADRIAN DANCHIG-WARING JOSEPH GORDON contributions to the art form of tap dance have largely remained under the radar.

“As with most of what I have created as a choreographer, the dance is first and foremost This work has been commissioned by New York City Center for the Fall for Dance Festival. an expression of the music—a way, one might say, of playing the music on the dancers’ bodies. I think of the choreography as an additional line of music, much as the voice Support for new dance works at City Center is provided by Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the is in opera, but in this case a visual line. However, that does not mean to say that it is Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. without a specific dramatic context as well. In this case, it is intended as an essay on friendship. Mozart wrote his Concerto for Clarinet K.622 for a close friend who was a virtuoso clarinetist, though as a composer he did not, in fact, favor this instrument and rarely featured it. In 1985, when the dance was created, the AIDS epidemic was upon us and one of the emerging themes in this time of crisis was the depth of friendship expressed as friends helped friends to die. The dance essays the joyousness of the subject in its outer ensemble movements and its tenderness in the central adagio for two men.” —Lar Lubovitch

Created, in part, with support from the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine (Angers, France) and with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts (with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature), and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (in partnership with the City Council). MEET THE ARTISTS MEET THE ARTISTS ASHLEY BOUDER was born in Carlisle, Penn- company Morphoses, with which he toured from Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz graduate pro- and holds an MA in non- sylvania, and began her ballet training at the age 2005–2008. Danchig-Waring is the director gram. In March of 2011, Garabedian was selected profit management from Washington Univer- of six at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet of the New York Choreographic Institute: an to participate in Brad Mehldau’s master class at sity in St. Louis. In 2007, Smithsonian Magazine with Marcia Dale Weary. After attending the incubator for the development of new work in the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, and named her an American Innovator of the Arts School of American Ballet (SAB), Bouder joined the field of classical and contemporary ballet and in June of that same year, he was selected as a and Sciences. She is a recipient of the Columbia New York City Ballet (NYCB). She was promot- director of the board of The George Balanchine finalist in the ISB Double Bass Competition. In University Medal of Excellence, an annual award ed to principal dancer in 2005. She has danced Foundation. November of 2016, he received a Fulbright Spe- given to an alumnus who has demonstrated ex- in ballet galas around the world and guest starred cialist Grant to teach jazz music for one month cellence in their field of work. In 2008, she de- in companies including the , NATASHA M. DIAMOND-WALKER is from at Silpakorn University, in Bangkok, Thailand. livered the keynote address to the graduates of Rome Opera Ballet, Bayerisches Staatsballett, Los Angeles. She joined Martha Graham Dance Garabedian, a native of Berkeley, California, has Columbia University’s School of General Studies. and the . She was awarded the Company in 2011 and has danced solo roles in performed and toured with Ralph Alessi, Ravi As a dance educator, Mack most recently taught Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise at Graham classics such as Diversion of Angels, Cave Coltrane, and Josh Roseman, as well as on behalf as an adjunct faculty member at the University of SAB as a student. Other awards include the Jan- of the Heart, Embattled Garden, and Appalachian of the US State Department throughout Asia Houston and was a visiting assistant professor at ice Levin Honoree from NYCB, the Miss Expres- Spring, among others. She has also originated and the Middle East. Webster University. She is a co-founder of D(n) sivity for 2011 and the Miss Virtuosity for 2013 roles for top choreographers Kyle Abraham, Lil A Arts Collective, an initiative created to enrich from the Dance Open Gala, the 2019 Benois de Buck, Nacho Duato, Liz Gerring, Bobbi Jene JOSEPH GORDON was born in Phoenix, Ari- the lives of young dancers through master classes la Danse, and the Award for Artistic Excellence Smith, and Pam Tanowitz. Diamond-Walker ap- zona, and began his dance training at the age of and intensives. from the Borough of Community peared as a guest artist with Annie-B Parson’s five at The Phoenix Dance Academy. Gordon College for her work in promoting gender equal- Big Dance Theater and can be seen in myriad TV began studying at SAB, the official school of DAVID HALLBERG was born in South Da- ity in the ballet world. and film projects. She holds a BFA from Fordham NYCB, during the 2006 summer course and en- kota. He trained at The School of University. rolled as a full-time student that fall. In August of and the Paris Opera Ballet School, before join- SHELBY COLONA grew up in Houston, Texas 2011, Gordon became an apprentice with NYCB, ing American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in 2001. He where she graduated from the High School for DORMESHIA is a two-time Bessie Award win- and in July of 2012, he joined the Company as became a principal dancer in 2005 and his rep- the Performing and Visual Arts with honors in ner (performer and choreographer), and Princess a member of the corps de ballet. He was pro- ertoire includes leading roles in all the major clas- dance. After graduating, she attended The Ai- Grace Statue Award and Astaire Award recipient. moted to soloist in February 2017 and to prin- sical ballets. He has performed works by George ley School’s Certificate Program from 2011 to Her credits include After Midnight, cipal in October 2018. He has performed fea- Balanchine, Kurt Jooss, Lar Lubovitch, Mark 2013. In addition to her education, Colona has Black and Blue, and Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in tured roles in ballets choreographed by George Morris, Jerome Robbins, , Antony performed works by Robert Battle, Billy Bell, ‘da Funk!, including the international tour (dance Balanchine, August Bournonville, , Tudor, and more, as well as roles he created in Graciela Daniele, , Ben- captain, principal, lead). Her film credits include , Jerome Robbins, and Chris- seven of Alexei Ratmansky’s world premieres. He oit-Swan Pouffer, and Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, TAP with Gregory Hines, Spike Lee’s Bamboozled topher Wheeldon. Gordon has performed on made history in 2011 as the first American to join among others and has performed with companies (assistant choreographer/actress), and The Rise stages around the world including the Théâtre the under the title premier dancer. such as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at and Fall of Miss Thang, for which she received a du Châtelet of Paris, Bunkamura Festival Hall of Hallberg has been a guest artist with the Mari- City Center, Lunge Dance Collective, and BHdos nomination for Best Lead Actress. Some of Dor- Tokyo, Copenhagen , Tivoli insky Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, La Scala, The prior to joining Ballet Hispánico. This is Colona’s meshia’s choreography credits include Michael Gardens Theater, and has been a guest artist at Royal Ballet, and more. His recognitions include sixth season with Ballet Hispánico. Jackson’s Rock My World, and The Blues Project the Vail International Dance Festival since 2014. the Benois de la Danse prize, the Princess Grace (co-choreographer). Dormeshia continues her Fellowship, The Bell Family Foundation Emerg- ADRIAN DANCHIG-WARING is a princi- artistic journey with the first full-length workAnd ALICIA GRAF MACK began her inaugural ing Artist Award, and the Chris Hellman Dance pal dancer with NYCB, where he’s collaborated Still You Must Swing: a celebration of tap dance, season as the dean and director of the Dance Award and its Statue Award. Hallberg is the in- with many of today’s renowned choreographers jazz music, the connection between the two, and Division at The Juilliard School in fall 2018. She coming artistic director for The Australian Bal- and performed an active repertoire of master- their African roots. enjoyed a distinguished career as a leading dancer let, and he serves as a board member with City works by George Balanchine and Jerome Rob- of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and was Center and Performa in New York City. bins. He has originated featured roles in works by NOAH GARABEDIAN holds a BA in Ethno- a principal dancer with Dance Theatre of Har- Kim Brandstrup, , Wayne McGregor, musicology from the University of California Los lem and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. She WINARD HARPER studied at the University , Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Angeles, and a Master’s in Music Performance has also danced as a guest performer with An- of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Justin Peck, , Alexei Ratman- from New York University. In 2006 he was dré 3000, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Beyoncé, and at Howard University and was awarded a sky, and , among others. He was awarded a John Coltrane National Scholarship, , and . Mack graduated scholarship to study jazz under the guidance of a founding member of Christopher Wheeldon’s and in 2007 he was selected as a finalist for the magna cum laude with honors in history from Jackie McLean at the University of Hartford. He MEET THE ARTISTS MEET THE ARTISTS has played with Betty Carter, Dexter Gordon, Award, Mae L. Wien Award, and was named one the New World School of the Arts and The Ailey She also studied at Studio Margarita Fernandez and Johnny Griffin. Harper was part of the Young of Forbes “30 under 30.” Peck has appeared in School, he has danced for Alvin Ailey American in Argentina, Opus Ballet in Italy, and Annarella Lions with his brother Philip, and together they previous City Center events including Studio 5, Dance Theater, Ailey II, and Complexions Con- Academia de Ballet e Dança in Portugal. Veiga formed jazz sensation The Harper Brothers, with the 2015 and 2018 Fall for Dance Festival, and temporary Ballet. Roberts won the 2016 Bessie continued her training as a scholarship student at five much lauded albums and Billboard 100 posi- the 2016 Vail Dance Festival: ReMix NYC. Peck Award for Outstanding Performer. He has been The Ailey School from 2016–2017. She has par- tions to their name. He formed his own sextet in recently added “author” to her already impressive commissioned by The Juilliard School Dance Di- ticipated in dance festivals around the world and 1993, recording seven albums featuring a host of list of titles by writing her first children’s book, vision, the March on Washington Film Festival received scholarships from special guests, true to his collaborative approach Katarina Ballerina. She choreographed the block- to create a dance tribute to the honorable John and . She has performed for the Vibe and the strong desire to showcase jazz greats of buster hit film John Wick 3 and developed a daily Lewis, and as a Works & Process Virtual Com- Competition, Assemblée Internationale, Harlem all ages. His latest project “Winard Harper & Jeli ballet class, #TurnItOutWithTiler, that airs on her missioned Artist where he created the acclaimed Arts Festival, and the Ailey Spirit Gala. Veiga Posse” continues to record and perform through- Instagram, @tilerpeck. Tiler is the designer of short work on film, Cooped. has had the opportunity to work with artists like out the region. Tiler Peck Designs, a studio to streetwear cloth- Robert Battle, Raul Candal, Jean Emille, Mela- ing line. GABRIEL ROXBURY studied with Sekou nie Futorian, Charla Gen, Caridad Martinez, Ray SARA MEARNS of Columbia, South Carolina, O’Hura and Chiku Awali , Arts & Mercer, and Claudia Zaccari. This is her fourth has been a principal dancer with NYCB since BRITTANY POLLACK is a soloist with NYCB. Culture with Makane Koute and Jerry Dzokoto. season with Ballet Hispánico. 2008. She has been a guest artist with the Paul She has performed principal roles in ballets His credits include Hello from Hollywood at Lin- Taylor Dance Company, Jodi Melnick Dance, choreographed by George Balanchine, Mauro coln Center with the LENAI WILKERSON is from Washington, DC and Wang Ramirez. She has also starred in the Bigonzetti, August Bournonville, Justin Peck, featuring Tony Award winner Bryan Stokes where she attended the Baltimore School for US premiere of ’s The Red Shoes Angelin Preljocaj, Alexei Ratmansky, Jerome Mitchell, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and the the Arts. Wilkerson graduated from the Univer- at City Center and performed the of Robbins, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Christopher Hudson River Dance Festival. Roxbury has also sity of Southern California (USC) as a Glorya at both and City Wheeldon, and more. Her standout roles include toured and taught in Ghana, West Africa and in Kaufman scholar with a BFA in Dance and a mi- Center’s Fall for Dance Festival. Mearns was also Anita in , George Balanchine’s The Tempe, Arizona. nor in Political Science in 2019. She is one of the featured in the Fall for Dance Festival in 2013, Nutcracker, , Opus 19: - seven 2016–2017 dance scholars to be awarded 2017, 2018, and 2019. She has worked with er, , Who Cares?, The Sleeping CALVIN ROYAL III began his formal dance a scholarship from Nigel Lythgoe’s Dizzy Feet world-renowned choreographers including Justin Beauty, , and more. Her Broadway training at the Pinellas County Center for the Foundation. At USC Kaufman, Wilkerson per- Peck and Alexei Ratmansky. In 2019, she made credits include Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was a finalist formed the works of George Balanchine, Aszure her City Center Encores! debut in I Married an –2018 revival and her film and TV cred- at the Competition Barton, William Forsythe, Martha Graham, Jared Angel. Mearns is the winner of the 2018 Bessie its include Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, and was awarded the Ethan Stiefel Scholarship Grimes, Jiří Kylián, Yanis Marshall, and Dwight Award for Outstanding Performer and a nomi- Camp, NY Export: Opus Jazz, The David Letter- to train at ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Rhoden, among others. Additionally, she has nee for both the Benois de la Danse and Princess man Show, Live from Lincoln Center’s George School in 2006. Royal joined ABT II in 2008 trained seasonally with Hubbard Grace Awards. She has partnerships with Cole Balanchine’s , and more. Pollack and the main Company in April 2011. He was Chicago, Bolshoi Ballet, , and Haan, Tiger Balm, and SoDanca. has also appeared in the Radio City Christmas promoted to soloist in September 2017 and with legendary ballerina . This is Spectacular, the cover of ’s “25 to principal dancer in September 2020. Royal Wilkerson’s second season with Ballet Hispánico. TILER PECK has been a principal dancer with to Watch” issue, and more. She holds a BS from has been featured in the Company’s classical NYCB since 2009. She most recently starred Fordham University and an MBA from Colorado repertoire such as Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, NEW YORK CITY CENTER has played a de- as Marie in the Kennedy Center’s production of State University. Pollack performed Christopher , and new works by Kyle Abraham, Wayne fining role in the cultural life of the city since Little Dancer and is slated to star in the show’s Wheeldon’s with NYCB at City Cen- McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky, Twyla Tharp, and 1943 when it was founded by Mayor Fiorello upcoming Broadway production now called Ma- ter’s 2011 Fall for Dance Festival. Christopher Wheeldon. Royal was the winner of La Guardia with the mission to make the best in rie. Peck made her Broadway debut at age 11 in the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship grant and the the performing arts accessible to all. The distinc- and was seen on Broadway as JAMAR ROBERTS is the first resident cho- July 2020 cover star of Dance Magazine. He was tive neo-Moorish theater welcomes 300,000 Ivy Smith in the Tony-nominated . reographer of the Alvin Ailey American Dance named the 2020–2021 artist-in-residence at visitors annually to experience internationally She has appeared on television in Ray Donovan, Theater. A dancer with the Company since the Vail Dance Festival in Vail, Colorado. acclaimed artists on the same stage where leg- Dancing with the Stars, the 2012 and 2014 Ken- 2002, Roberts’s first full-length work for the ends like George Balanchine, , nedy Center Honors for the Obamas, and Live Company, Members Don’t Get Weary, premiered DANDARA VEIGA is originally from Brazil and made their mark. For over 25 from Lincoln Center’s George Balanchine’s The at City Center in 2016. In 2019, he premiered where she began her dance training at Projeto years, the treasured, Tony-honored Encores! se- Nutcracker and Carousel. She is a recipient of the his next work, Ode, also at City Center. Roberts Social Primeiros Passos, before training as a ries has given new life to the American musical Princess Grace Statue Award, Dance Magazine set his work Gemeos on Ailey II. A graduate of scholarship student at Escola de dança Ballerina. theater canon, complemented in recent years by New York City Center Board of Directors MEET THE ARTISTS Stacey Mindich Richard E. Witten the Encores! Off-Center series, which brings to- Additional Equipment Co-Chairs day’s innovative artists into contact with ground- Lighting Rental: 4Wall Entertainment Arlene Shuler breaking musicals from the more recent past. Audio Rental: Sound President & CEO Dance continues to be an integral part of the in- Backline: Boulevard Carroll Entertainment Group Video Rental: Adorama Rentals stitution’s mission through programs like the an- Raymond A. Lamontagne nual Fall for Dance Festival, which exposes new FOR NEL SHELBY PRODUCTIONS Chairman Emeritus audiences to an international array of artists by Director/Producer/Editor ...... Nel Shelby offering subsidized tickets. Through its robust ed- Assistant Producer/ Stacy Bash-Polley David Hallberg Ira M. Resnick ucation and community programs, City Center Videographer/Editor ...... Ashli Bickford Luigi Caiola Sarah James Irby Alfred J. Shuman brings the performing arts to over 11,000 New Project Manager ...... Cherylynn Tsushima Theodore S. Chapin Elizabeth Harpel Kehler Paul Spivey York City students, teachers, and families each Videographer ...... Cody Buesing Mark Kingdon Joseph S. Steinberg year and activates all areas of the building with Videographer ...... Steve DiCasa Stuart H. Coleman Julie Abrams Leff Erana M. Stennett Videographer ...... Caroline Haidet talks, master classes, art exhibitions, and intimate Patrick Crosetto Jeanette W. Loeb Elinor Ruth Tatum Photographer ...... Christopher Duggan performances that provide audiences an up-close Deborah Goodman Davis Nancy S. MacMillan Alan G. Weiler Harris Diamond Susan Mindell Elizabeth H. Witten look at the work of the great theater and dance FOR JEROME ROBBINS DANCE DIVISION, artists of our time. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE Maurice DuBois Tracey Knight Narang PERFORMING ARTS Bobbie Frankfort Kelli O’Hara Barbara Zalaznick Curator ...... Linda Murray Perry B. Granoff Carl Quintanilla SPECIAL STAFF FOR Librarian and Original Akila Raman FALL FOR DANCE FESTIVAL Documentations Producer ...... Daisy Pommer Emeriti Council Douglas S. Cramer Barry F. Schwartz Judy Wilpon John Philip Falk Frederic M. Seegal Joanne Woodward Manager of Dance Programs ...... Cathy Eilers SPECIAL THANKS TO Richard A. Goldstein Nicole Seligman Merryl S. Zegar Assistant Manager of Stanley Plesent Anne Strickland Squadron Dance Programs ...... Imogen Pickles Pablo J. Salame Dolores D. Wharton 2019-2020 Programming Apprentice ....Mia Silvestri LaRue Allen, American Federation of Musicians, American Guild of Musical Artists, Ex-Officio Director of Production ...... Mark Mongold Robert Battle, Richard J. Caples, Nicole Cornell, The Honorable Bill de Blasio, Mayor, City of New York Production Manager ...... Julie Shelton-Grimshaw Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, Dorrance Dance, Bill Samuels, Mayoral Designee Assistant Production Manager ...... John Rodriguez DeAnne Eisch, Aaron Flagg, Jenny Granrud, Gonzalo Casals, Commissioner, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Kathie Iannaci, Jennifer McGrath, Dianna Mesion, The Honorable Scott M. Stringer, Comptroller, City of New York Production Stage Manager ...... Lori Wekselblatt Jason Olaine, Paris Opera Ballet, Joshua Preston, Assistant Stage Manager ...... Madison Ellis Stephen Reed, Bennett Rink, Sarahi Seda, Jessica Lappin, Comptroller’s Designee Dorothy Siff, Tyshawn Sorey, Ellen Sorrin, Assistant Production and Stage Manager ... Alex West Public Support Wardrobe Supervisor...... Stephanie Sleeper Taylor Stanley, Tedesco Studios, Oliver Tobin, Assistant Wardrobe Trisha Brown Dance Company, New York City Center, created and owned by the City of New York, is very grateful Supervisor...... Gina Loiodice-Montes Susan Yung, Daniel Ulbricht for the support of the following public agencies and officials: COVID-19 Compliance Officers…...... Julienne Bilker, Anna Engelsman, Rachel Gross Member Helen Rosenthal Wendy Ziecheck, M.D. / Park 55 Medical Associates, ADDITIONAL CREDITS New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Medical Consultant New York State Council on the Arts New York State Education Department COVID-19 Testing supplied by: Wendy Ziecheck, M.D. Cover and Editorial Design: Jasmine Thorson New York State Assembly Member Helene E. Weinstein / Park 55 Medical Associates, NYU Langone & NYU Cover Photo: Ballet Hispánico’s Shelby Colona, Office of Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer Grossman School of Medicine, Elevation Health, Weiss Photo by Rachel Neville Photography Office of the Mayor Wellness, Bradley A. Connor, M.D. New York City Center Annual Support $10,000 and over (continued) New York City Center is grateful to the many individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies Aaron and Betty Lee Stern Jujamcyn Theaters Louise Bickman whose generous gifts provide vital support for its artistic, educational, and outreach programs. Listed below are Jane and R.L. Stine Laura and Lewis Kruger Sheila Blank those patrons whose annual gifts of $1,000 or more are indispensable to the success of our season. The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, Inc. Judi and Douglas Krupp Allison M. Blinken Mayo and Elizabeth Stuntz Kate Lear and Jon LaPook Lori B. Bookstein $250,000 and over Diane Winter Sunshine Ellen G. Levine Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. 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Perlmuth from Elisabeth de Picciotto Stacey and Eric Mindich Paula and Ira Resnick Susan Drury Mr. Armen Avanessians Patricia Dugan Perlmuth David Dean New York City Department of Dyson Foundation Edwin Bacher Lisa Piazza and David Golub Daniel and Gayle Devin Cultural Affairs $25,000 and over Margee and John Falk Brook and Roger Berlind Denice H. Rein Richard and Lauren Donner New York State Council on the Arts Sandra Gluck Karen Zimmerman and Paul Bindler Allen & Company, Inc. Richenthal Foundation Jeanne Donovan Fisher Dance Foundation Carol Lippert Gray and Claudia Bjerre and Andrea Senich The Applebaum Foundation Allan V. and Maxine Rose Jean Marie Echemendia-Kouri Lynne and Richard Pasculano Harold Perlmutter James B. Boskey Memorial Foundation Columbia University Susan and Elihu Rose Michael L. Emmel Denise R. 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Rose Sue and Paul Kilrain The Sirus Fund Mr. and Mrs. Jon Rotenstreich We are deeply grateful to the friends and supporters whose commitments to the 75th Anniversary Don Roy King David A. Sokol Patricia Schoenfeld Campaign will ensure a vibrant future for the next 75 years. Jane Parsons Klein Madeline and William Speer Robert Schulman Karen Kochevar Charline Spektor Karen and Steven Seltzer Helen Kornblau/The Kornblau Family Sydney and Jonathan Stern Paul Spivey and Evelyn Gonzalez J o d y a n d J o h n A r n h o l d The Hearst Foundation, Inc. Jane and R.L. Stine Foundation Linda B. Stocknoff Alec Stais and Elissa Burke Irwin Cohen in memory of The Katzenberger Foundation Elaine and Alan Weiler Sandra and Eric Krasnoff Rita and Thomas Sweeney Frances Tsou Elizabeth and Dean Kehler Lisa and Richard Witten Robin Krasny Jeanette Tabb Eleanor and Mark Walfish J i l l F r a m e r C o h e n Ronald Krause Barbara Tarmy and Gary Fradin Linda and Jay Weiss Stuart H. 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Lawrence Carrie and Timothy Buchman Mark and Debbie Jacoby John Orberg Donna Case Michael S. Kaufman Lisa Orberg Ms. Mindy Cohen Norman Keller Sylvia T. Pope Sean Davis David A. Kernahan New York City Center is a city-owned facility and is supported by funds from the New York City Dr. Robert Press Richard Eggers/Eggers Charitable Barbara Kravitz Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council. Peter and Peggy Pressman Foundation Frank Lenti Rajika and Anupam Puri Tova Fink Susan B. Lindenauer Frances Resheske Adrienne Frosch The Dorothy Loudon Foundation Encores!, Encores! Off-Center, and Dance at New York City Center are made possible by the New Bathsheva Rifkin Dale Glasser Gabrielle and Samuel Lurie York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York Mr. and Mrs. Toby Ritter George Iadarola and Michael Guarnieri Joanne Olian State Legislature. Stephen Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. 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