ABTKids Guide Cover Image: Scene from Harlequinade Capture your memories with Photo: Rosalie O’Connor First Time ABT by taking photos in front of the theater, in the lobby and of your favorite dancer taking at the ? a bow at the end of the ballet!

Here are some tips to best enjoy today’s performance:

Arrive a little early. Turn off your phones. Give yourself time to enter the theater, It’s hard to appreciate all of the hard find your seats and read your program. work of the dancers and designers if Make sure you use the restroom and you are looking at the screen of a get a drink of water before the show device. Please turn off all phones and starts. If you leave your seat during the tablets before the ballet begins. Also, show, you may not be allowed back please do not take any photos while to your seat until intermission, and it the dancers are performing—flashes would be a shame to miss any of the can be dangerous for the performers amazing dancing. and disruptive to those around you.

Whisper. Applaud! At the ballet, you will see many Applause is how audiences show amazing things that you will appreciation for the artistry of the definitely want to discuss with your performers. In ballet, there are many neighbor. Try to remember all those times to practice your clapping. After a magical moments and discuss short variation, or solo dance, a dancer during intermission or following the may finish dancing and take a small performance. If you see something so bow. Sometimes at the end of the AMAZING and just can’t keep it inside, ballet when dancers take their final please make sure that you practice bow, audience members shout “Brava” your best whisper and quietly share for the ballerinas and “Bravo” for the so you do not distract the audience male dancers to show appreciation around you. and admiration.

Save your snacks for intermission. Ask Any Questions. Live performances are different Upon arrival, you will meet members from going to the movies. Although of the theater staff, including: ticket everyone loves a big bucket of takers, ushers and security. If you have popcorn, any small noises or smells any questions or need any help, please could become distracting for the speak with any of these staff members.

performers and audience members. Have Fun! Please finish all food and drink Don’t forget to enjoy yourself. before entering the theater. can be dramatic, they can be romantic

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Welcome to Welcome, Kids, to Lincoln Center.

Thank you for bringing your parents • ABT dancers come from to the ballet! 15 countries and 25 states, American plus Washington, D.C. My name is Kara Barnett, and I am the Executive Director of American • The youngest dancer in the Ballet Theatre. (Being Executive company is 20 years old. Director means that I run the This year, ABT performs in company, along with Kevin McKenzie, • Orange County (CA), Washington, Ballet our amazing Artistic Director.) Like D.C, Minneapolis (MN), Iowa City many of you, I took ballet classes as (IA), Chicago (IL) and Wolf Trap a child. I grew up in North Carolina (VA). Last year, we performed and started dancing at age three. in Singapore and I had posters of ABT dancers on Whipped Cream in Hong Kong. Theatre! my walls, and now, like you, I have the opportunity to watch these • ABT has a big warehouse in phenomenal dancers on the stage! New Jersey where all of our sets and costumes live. I have three daughters, ages 9, 7, and 3. All three are students at ABT’s • ABT’s rehearsal studios are not at Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, Lincoln Center. They are on 19th and the youngest is in our ABTots Street and Broadway, which is also program. Our favorite family outing where ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy every year is ABTKids, and we also Onassis School is located. love watching Whipped Cream, If you enjoy today’s performance, Harlequinade and The Sleeping don’t forget to yell “BRAVO!” during Beauty together. the bows. And please ask your As you watch today’s performance, parents to check out www.abt. here are a few facts I thought you org/familyprograms to sign up to might like to know: receive information about ABT family programs year-round. •  (ABT) is America’s National Enjoy your ABT Adventure today, . and please return soon! • ABT is almost 80 years old. Our 80th birthday is January 11, 2020. Best wishes, Kara

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4 5 In 1940, Ballet Theatre emerged onto the Eight American cultural landscape with a unique, exciting vision of a ballet company that functioned like an art museum. Just as a museum presents paintings by different artists to showcase a wide range of beauty and art, the Company would present ballets by diverse choreographers to showcase all the variety the ballet world had to offer. The Company preserved many of the great European masterpieces ‘60s ‘70s ‘80s and was at the forefront of helping to lay the In 1967, ABT performed This decade marked The Company committed Decades foundation for new American works. its first full-length ABT’s arrival as one to commision and present classical : of the world’s major post-modern works by Swan Lake. This success classical companies, and choreographers such led to future full-length dancers from around as , Mark productions such the world took notice. Morris, Paul Taylor and of American as , International stars Merce Cunningham. La Bayadère and , The Sleeping Beauty. , , Rudolph Nureyev and Carla Fracci all performed with the Company during this period.

‘10s Ballet In 2013, ABT launched the Project Plié initiative to further expand its diversity ‘40s ‘50s ‘90s and inclusion efforts and Lucia Chase and Richard The company traveled In 1992, former ABT increase awareness of Pleasant (co-founders) the world extensively Kevin the lack of diversity in the assembled many of and, at the request of McKenzie became community. the world’s finest President Eisenhower, Artistic Director. Under ‘00s In 2018, the ABT Women’s choreographers and added “American” to his leadership, ABT Movement began; it dancers. Dance pioneers its name. The dancers was recognized as (former Artistic Director supports the creation, , Eugene of American Ballet having “the most of the ) Theatre Loring, , Theatre became cultural unquestionably joined ABT as Artist exploration and staging and ambassadors for impressive roster of in Residence; he has of new works by female Agnes de Mille were the . male dancers in any choreographed 16 choreographers. founding members ballet company.” ballets for the Company of Ballet Theatre. in his first 10 years.

Scene from: Fancy Free. Photo Photo Credits: Natalia Makarova in Swan Lake, photo by Kenn Duncan; by Maurice Seymour; Touring as In the Upper Room, photo by Marty Sohl; Kevin McKenzie with “American” Ballet Theatre Photo by and , photo by Rosalie O’Connor; 6 Walter E. Owen; Scene from Swan Alexei Ratmansky, photo by Gene Schiavone; Jessica Lang 7 Lake. Photo by Martha Swope and Michelle Dorrance, photo by Rosalie O’Connor Can you name all of the countries America’s where ABT’s dancers were born?

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On April 27, 2006, by an act of ABT ‘s dancers come from all Company Congress, American Ballet Theatre over the world, drawn to ABT became America’s National Ballet for its repertoire, artistry and Company®. ABT is the only ballet camaraderie. In 2019, ABT’s company to perform in all 50 states dancers hailed from 15 countries and 45 international countries. and 25 states, plus Washington, D.C.! In 1957, with encouragement from President Eisenhower, the company’s name was changed from Ballet Theatre to American Ballet Theatre. But what does it mean to be America’s National Ballet Company? What does it mean to be American?

8 Answers can be found in rear of booklet 9 DANCER’S JOURNEY

Hee Seo in Romeo and Juliet Up close with ABT Photo by John Grigaitis Hee Seo and in Swan Lake Principal Dancer Hee Seo Photo by Gene Schiavone

My journey with dance began when I was 12 years First Ever Role: My first role was How many pairs of pointe shoes do old in my hometown, , Korea. I was taking Red Riding Hood in The Sleeping you go through in a week? I think swimming lessons with my two brothers and Beauty when I was 12. I probably go through 10 pairs Hee Seo Photo by Gene Schiavone decided I didn’t want to swim anymore. My mom per week. First Role with ABT: Ballet Imperial said I needed to do some type of activity, so she by . There are four Favorite Ballet? Swan Lake put me into a ballet class. groups, and I was the first girl to lead Most Challenging Ballet? Swan Lake I’ve only participated in three competitions in one of the groups. I was supposed my life, but each one was an important step on to take my cue from the conductor Do you prefer playing Odette my journey. My first competition was when I was to start, but I was too nervous to do or Odile? I say this because I just 12. I was accepted into an Arts School in Seoul, so, so I asked the Ballet Mistress to rehearsed Odile. I think I like white which then led to a scholarship with the Kirov switch me with one of the senior swan better. No, that’s not true. I don’t Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. I entered corps members so I was not the one know...I like them both! another competition, , that led leading the line. One thing in your dance bag that me into the in Germany, where I Favorite Role: My favorite role is you can’t go without? One thing? trained in the John Cranko Ballet Academy and Odette/Odile in Swan Lake because Two, I need two. Lipstick danced with their company. Finally, at the Youth it is so challenging, but so rewarding and perfume. American Grand Prix, I was offered a position afterwards. Normally you either play with ABT’s Studio Company and joined ABT When did you start to love ballet? a nice person or a bad person...but shortly thereafter. Over the next seven years, I When I came to ABT. Before then I this is the only ballet you can actually worked my way through the company before didn’t see enough beautiful dancing play both good and evil (White Swan/ being promoted to Principal Dancer in 2012! growing up. We didn’t have access to Black Swan) in the same evening. extensive videos or YouTube channels It is so technically challenging that like today. When I finally made it once you finish the full-length ballet, to ABT, I got to see these incredible it feels like you have accomplished dancers that I saw on video in real life. something. For me, it was the role I realized that a dance form could be where I became a ballerina. this beautiful, and it really gave me It was very special. the wings to fly!

Other Dances Photo by Erin Baiano Beginnings in Kirov Academy John Cranko ABT Seoul at the of Ballet of Ballet Academy ABT’s Studio ABT Main ABT Corps ABT Principal Sun-hwa Arts Washington, D.C. in Stuttgart, Company Company as de Ballet Dancer Middle School – Germany an Apprentice 10 11 DANCER’S JOURNEY up watching on DVDs), I started to realize that this is something that I could potentially do as my career.

Calvin Royal III What is a typical day for you like? I get up at 8am every morning, and I try to get to the city by 10am Up close with ABT because class starts at 10:15. I have 15 minutes to warm up and stretch Soloist Calvin Royal III before a 90-minute technique class. Then we have a short break followed Swan Lake Dream within a How did you start dancing? I started dancing by rehearsals from noon to 7pm, with Photo Dream (deferred) by Gene Schiavone Photo by Marty Sohl probably around 11 years old. I did this community a few breaks throughout the day. project in Florida called The Chocolate Nutcracker, If you had to be in another and that was my first introduction to dance. We did What is your favorite ballet? profession, what would that African dancing, hip-hop and jazz. My favorite ballet to watch would Calvin Royal be? At ABT, I have been getting a Photo by Jade Young probably be . It’s super dramatic, I went to a middle school for the performing arts lot of character-acting roles and and there are so many things that and studied music. I thought that I wanted to developing those characters has strike your heart when you watch it. As become a pianist, but when I auditioned for the been really fun for me. I especially a performer, it’s Swan Lake—mainly performing arts high school, I applied to all of the like characters that are not my own because I get to play the sorcerer von arts programs and was accepted into the dance personality, like an Evil Sorcerer. So, Rothbart. This was the first role where program. The beginning of my journey began when I think if I wasn’t a dancer, I would I felt like I lost Calvin and transformed I was a freshman in high school with two hands on probably want to explore acting. into this other person. You basically the barre. Who are your artistic influences invite yourself to the ball, break in and Where did you receive your ballet training? While and why? I just started reading a make everybody fall under your spell. studying at my high school, I participated in the biography of Mel Tomlinson who There’s just something so powerful , and I was invited to New recently passed away. He was about that. York City to compete in the finals. This is where I was one of the first dancers of color What is your favorite part of your spotted by Franco DeVita and Raymond Lukens and to dance with the City job? My favorite part of my job is received a scholarship to ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy Ballet after Arthur Mitchell. He connecting with other dancers in the Onassis School. danced so many prominent roles Company. It makes it so much easier and came from the South like me. How did you know you wanted to become a to come to work, because it doesn’t I danced a ballet called Agon that ? It really didn’t occur to me to have feel like work. It feels like I’m a part of was created for Arthur Mitchell by Interplay the dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer, something special, and it’s exciting! Photo George Balanchine. So definitely by Gene Schiavone even after I moved to New York and began studying. Mel Tomlinson and Arthur Mitchell... Any other advice you want to impart I was still a student adjusting to a new city and they are the pioneers who changed to aspiring young dancers? Trust getting the best training in the world. Then, after people’s perceptions and the yourself! Sometimes we have the being in this environment and seeing dancers like landscape of classical ballet. wildest ideas, dreams or visions for Ethan Stiefel and Jose Manuel Carreño (whom I grew ourselves and they may not necessarily align with how other people see us. Beginnings in ABT’s It’s okay to trust yourself! St. Petersburg, FL, ABT Main Jacqueline ABT’s Studio ABT Corps ABT at the Pinellas County Company as Kennedy Company de ballet Soloist Center for the Arts an Apprentice Onassis School at Gibbs High School 12 13 Interview with ABT Why is ABT Artistic Director like a library? Kevin McKenzie

In 1992, Kevin McKenzie was appointed Artistic Director of American Ballet Theatre after a successful career as a Soloist and Principal Dancer with the Company. As Artistic Director, Mr. McKenzie is responsible for spearheading the artistic vision of the Company, including hiring the dancers and selecting ballets for the Company’s repertoire.

What is your biggest challenge? And why is that? It’s because they One of the biggest challenges are now called classics. of directing the nation’s ballet What does it mean to be a classic? company is to keep the standard A classic is informed by classical of measure of what classical ballet beauty, and really that starts with actually means. the Greeks and their society, art, ABT’s mission is to create, to sculptures…it was about symmetry, present, to preserve and to extend it was about harmony, about the the great repertoire of classical joining of the elements. It was also dancing. How do you achieve about the power of belief and the Close your eyes and picture a library. It is hard to that? Every ballet company really hope to embody those lines of the imagine anything other than rows and rows of Which of wants to create the next great art form into the actual positions of shelves filled from floor to ceiling with books of all classic, and so does ABT, but my job the body in ballet. That is where our shapes, sizes and colors. The books are all neatly your favorite as a Director is to help an audience line comes from. Petipa took that organized by genre or categories, there are fairy and help our artists and staff line and further refined it. tales, fantasies, dramas and biographies, along books would understand that you can’t make with any subject you can imagine. Are Petipa’s ballets still relevant you like to see new, groundbreaking work without today? We, as the nation’s ballet This library you are imagining is really no different knowing the history of what it is that company, need to keep these works from American Ballet Theatre, except, instead of as a ballet? you are breaking through. fresh and relevant! I don’t really think books, we have ballets. Every time ABT performs a Is that why each Spring we that what we’re doing today reflects new ballet, it is added to the Company’s repertoire perform so many ballets that were exactly what was really done 100 or collection of ballets. Since 1940, ABT has originally created over 100 years years ago, but the heart and spirit performed more than 475 different ballets, with ago? The repertoire of of it and the line of it is the same. over 180 of those works commissioned or first is, in fact, that standard of measure It also gives the dancers a power performed by the Company. that I spoke of earlier. Petipa (who of language they can then bring At any time, ABT’s Artistic Director Kevin created his masterpieces in the into the studio to work with our McKenzie can pull any of these ballets down 19th century), laid the foundation genius Artist in Residence, Alexei from the shelf and bring them to life for a new for every single ballet company that Ratmansky, who wants them to use generation of dancers and audiences! In 2019, exists today. Now, not every single that language in a very different ABT adds Charlotte Brontë’s literary masterpiece ballet company still performs his way. Simply put, I like to think that Jane Eyre to its repertoire. works, but it is the work that every the reason we have classical ballets company started from. in ABT’s repertoire, is because we 14 15 respect our parents! Marius Petipa

The Father of Classical Ballet

Marius Ivanovich Petipa was a French ballet dancer and choreographer, one of the most influential ballet masters and choreographers in ballet history. He began his dance training at the age of seven with his father, a dancer and 3. 4. 5. teacher. In 1869, Petipa was named Premier Ballet Master of the Imperial Theatre and is considered This ballet is a holiday This comedic ballet This ballet features lots of to have laid the foundation for the entire school tradition, featuring a features Commedia pirates! It’s name means of Russian ballet. During his career, he created young girl named Clara, dell’Arte characters and “The Pirate” in French. more than 50 ballets, many of which are still toy soldiers and an army uses pantomime to performed today. of mice. act out themes of love, jealousy and old age.

Photo by Rosalie O’Connor Photo by Hidemi Seto and James Whiteside Photo by Marty Sohl Can you identify the Petipa Ballets in ABT’s Repertoire?

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1. This romantic ballet features restless spirits called Wilis.

Stella Abrera Photo by Gene Schiavone 6. 7. 8.

Princess Aurora pricks Prince Siegfried finally Set in India, this ballet her finger on a spindle, finds a beautiful princess follows the story of Nikiya, which causes a peaceful to marry, but she is under a temple dancer, and a 2. Loosely based on a novel by Miguel de Cervantes, 100-year sleep for her the spell of an evil sorcerer young warrior named this ballet follows the love story of Kitri and and her realm. who transforms her into Solor. The ballet is most Basilio. It also features a windmill. a graceful bird. famous for its “Kingdom of the Shades.”

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San Francisco, CA Ballet is... Courtney Principal Dancer Lavine Giselle Fairfax, Virginia “It’s a beautiful story of forgiveness. I Stella love it because it is a dramatic ballet. Swan Lake For Giselle, Act I is dramatic theatrically Abrera Luigi and through her movement, while Act “The storyline of Swan Lake is so South Pasadena, CA Crispino II is dramatic lyrically and through her dramatic…and I love the drama! The music Principal Dancer facial expressions.” , Italy from the second act is perhaps the most Corps de Ballet beautiful in ballet. I could listen to the pas Photo by Owen Bruce La Bayadère de deux music over and over.” “I love the depth of the characters. Swan Lake Photo by Rachel Neville The ballet touches on all of the universal “It’s so grand, romantic and dramatic. themes: love, betrayal, envy, power and You can read how much passion and nobility. The dances are classical, but love the dancers put through the steps also have some non-traditional classical that Petipa choreographed.” James movement that can be so much fun to Photo by Luigi Bilancio Tyler perform. I love portraying Gamzatti…she Whiteside Maloney is so powerful and menacing!” Fairfield, CT Photo by Jade Young Wyckoff, NJ Principal Dancer Corps de Ballet Giselle The Sleeping Beauty “Albrecht is the most involved role for a male principal dancer. I find the story “I like how it’s a real fairy tale, it’s mystical and characters depth-wise to be the Jose and elegant. I love the range of characters Catherine most interesting…there’s such a wide from Carabosse to the Bluebird. This is Sebastian range of emotions and the virtuosic Hurlin also one of few ballets that has everyone steps are so iconic to that ballet. And New York, NY on stage for most of the ballet, so you feel New York, NY who doesn’t love a spooky ghost story!” Corps de Ballet a real sense of community on stage!” Soloist

Photo by Hanna Bass Photo by Rosalie O’Connor La Bayadère Don Quixote

“I like the story and the period it is set “It’s super fun and fierce!”

in. Mostly, I love the music…from the Photo by Jade Young beginning of Nikiya’s first solo until the end of the ballet…it’s all just so beautiful.”

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18 19 REIMAGINING THE CLASSICS The 1979 Alexei Sleeping Ratmansky Beauty Photo by Fabrizio Ferri Natalia Makarova and Ivan Nagy in Oliver Messel’s production staged by Mary Skeaping. When ABT Artist in Residence how to read and decode them and Alexei Ratmansky creates a new used them to create his 2015 restaging 1987 ballet, it is documented on video so of Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty. the ballet can be preserved and easily Cheryl Yeager and What was the process of in Kenneth MacMillan’s production. reproduced by future generations researching the Sergeyev Collection of dancers. for The Sleeping Beauty? It was like In 1890, however, there was no video, an endless little door into the magical so Marius Petipa’s original production world of Imperial ballet, so rich, so of The Sleeping Beauty could not different from today’s technique. It’s 2007 be recorded in this way. Some other wild. We tracked documents and method had to be used to make sure memoirs and things in different his choreography would survive. archives…so there was a lot of There wasn’t yet an established code historical research. The notations in which to write dance steps down were created during rehearsals in real on paper—many attempts to create time by notators documenting the Through such a system had failed. dancers, movements and are filled with legendary names like Pavlova But at the Mariinsky Theater in St. and Fokine. You feel goosebumps Petersburg, Russia, where Petipa when reading it! was choreographing all his most famous works, a former dancer Were the notations easy to work 2015 named Vladimir Stepanov came up with? The problem with the notations with a way to record the ballet steps is that they are not complete. So we Gillian Murphy and David Hallberg and stage directions on paper. This needed to fill out the gaps in Petipa’s in Kevin McKenzie, Gelsey Kirkland and Michael Chernov’s production. dance notation became known as style that are missing from the the “Stepanov system,” and Petipa’s documents. It was very challenging ballets were preserved using and difficult. You really needed to be this method. up on your Petipa research and his choreography. While there was a lot the Today these notations are in the of research, the ballet shouldn’t be archives of the Harvard University a museum piece. It needs to be live Library Theatre Collection. Ratmansky, Gillian Murphy and theater and fun. Alexandre Hammoudi in along with his wife Tatiana, learned Alexei Ratmansky’s production Years

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22 23 Thank You from Our Dancers

On behalf of the dancers at to perform a solo piece called American Ballet Theatre, I would Paganini at our ABTKids: Schools like to thank you for joining us for performance, and hearing over today’s performance. I am often 3,000 children laughing and asked “What is it like to perform cheering my performance was a on the world’s greatest stages?” feeling I will never forget. Although I was born in England, I I met my wife, Leann Underwood, simply can not find the words in the while we were both dancers in English language to describe the ABT’s Studio Company and we are emotions that run through me when so pleased to introduce our two- I step onto the stage in front of an year-old son Benjamin into the audience of thousands. ABTKids family this year. While he Over my 13-year career at ABT, I has always enjoyed visiting ABT’s have played every part imaginable: 890 Broadway Studios to see dad ABTo t s Pirate, Bumblebee, Evil Sorcerer, rehearse or mom teach in ABT’s This 10-class series is designed as a unique ABT’S STUDIOS Giant Rat and even JKO School’s Children’s Division, parent and child or caregiver and child 890 Broadway New York, NY 10003 Prince! While I don’t have a favorite Benjamin was able to take his first engagement program. Spark your child’s interest in ballet and prepare them for a future of ballet role, I can say that the ABTKids dance class with the brand-new [email protected] or enjoyment and participation. Join ABT dance 212-477-3030 x3339 performances are always my favorite ABTots program for two-year-olds. educators to learn ballet fundamentals, explore Tuition: $650 total and most memorable shows. The musicality and foster your child’s creativity and Our family is proud to join your audience reactions are always imagination through the world’s most iconic Students must turn 2 family as well as the thousands of so genuine and appreciative. I ballets at ABT’s Studios at 890 Broadway! by September 1, 2019 ABTKids families across the world in remember I had the opportunity bringing the joys of classical ballet to Photo: Rosalie O’Connor our children. abt.org/abtots

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