ABT Spring Gala, May 14

Summer Season: June 18-July 29

 

 

서희(Hee Seo)와 안주원(Joo Won Ahn)이 수석무용수로 활동하는 아메리칸발레시어터(ABT, American Ballet Theatre)가 5월 14일 맨해튼 그랜드센트럴터미널 앞 치프리아니(Cipriani)에서 스프링 갈라를 연다. ABT는 이어 6월 18일부터 7월 20일까지 메트로폴리탄오페라하우스에서 섬머 시즌을 연다. 프로그램은 '오네긴(Onegin)' '로미오와 줄리엣Romeo and Juliet)' '백조의 호수(Swan Lake)' '달콤 쌉싸름한 초콜릿(Like Water for Chocolate)', 그리고 웨인 맥그리거 안무작 'Woof Works' 등이다.

 

ABT는 마더스 데이(Mother's Day)를 기해 일부 좌석과 공연의 티켓을 30% 할인 판매한다. 할인 코드는 ABTMOM

https://www.abt.org/performances/summer-season

 

 

AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE TO HOST 2024 SPRING GALA:

BALLET BRILLIANCE TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2024, AT CIPRIANI 42ND STREET

 

American Ballet Theatre will host the 2024 Spring Gala: Ballet Brilliance on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 6:30 P.M. at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. Performed by ABT’s extraordinary dancers, this one-night-only program will feature a curated selection of excerpts from ABT’s upcoming 2024 Summer season, including a preview of Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works ahead of the New York Premiere.

 

Repertory for ABT’s 2024 Spring Gala will include the pas de deux from Acts II and III from Kevin McKenzie’s production of Swan Lake with music by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky; two pas de deux excerpts from John Cranko’s Onegin with music by Tchaikovsky; excerpts of “Becomings” and “Tuesday” from Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works; the Act III pas de deux from Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet set to music by Sergei Prokofiev; and the Act III pas de deux from Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate with music by Joby Talbot.

 

Dancers scheduled to perform are Joo Won Ahn(안주원), Aran Bell, Isabella Boylston, Skylar Brandt, Herman Cornejo, Thomas Forster, Catherine Hurlin, Gillian Murphy, Calvin Royal III, Christine Shevchenko, Cory Stearns, Devon Teuscher, Cassandra Trenary, James Whiteside, Chloe Misseldine, and Jake Roxander.

 

Following the performance, Gala guests will enjoy dinner and dancing.

 

The Gala evening will honor Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi for her incomparable commitment to artistic excellence and innovation as a filmmaker, as well as her fervent advocacy of classical ballet.  

 

Honorary Chairs for the 2024 Spring Gala are Susan Fales-Hill, Elizabeth Segerstrom, and Blaine Trump. Gala Chairs include Sarah Arison, Amy Astley, Avery and Andrew Barth, Emily Blavatnik, Hamish Bowles, Malcolm Carfrae, Mr. and Mrs. Austin T. Fragomen, Christine and Stephen Schwarzman, Jenna and Paul Segal, Melissa A. Smith, and Sutton Stracke. Casey Kohlberg, Lilah Ramzi, and Zachary Weiss will serve as Junior Chairs.

 

 

ABT 2024 Summer Season

 

ABT’s 2024 Summer season will run from June 18 – July 20 at the Metropolitan Opera House. The season will kick off with seven performances of John Cranko’s Onegin beginning on Tuesday evening, June 18 at 7:30 P.M. with Devon Teuscher and Daniel Camargo in the leading roles.  

 

The New York Premiere of Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works is set for Tuesday evening, June 25 at 7:30 P.M. Woolf Works, an award-winning ballet triptych, re-creates the emotions, themes, and fluid style of three of Virginia Woolf’s novels: Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves. Woolf Works will be given seven performances through June 29.  

 

Week three of ABT’s Summer season will open on Monday evening, July 1 with the first of eight performances of Swan Lake, led by Isabella Boylston as Odette-Odile and Daniel Camargo as Prince Siegfried. Next, Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet will open on Tuesday evening, July 9 with Devon Teuscher and Aran Bell in the title roles, running for seven performances through July 13. The final week of the 2024 Summer season will feature seven performances of Like Water for Chocolate beginning Tuesday evening, July 16 at 7:30 P.M. with Cassandra Trenary as Tita and Herman Cornejo as Pedro.  

 

*All casting, programming, and pricing are subject to change.