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Spring Benefit: TŌN + ABT Studio Company

February 28 – March 1

ABT Studio Company
Add to Calendar2025-02-28 7:30 pm2025-02-28 7:30 pmESTSpring Benefit: TŌN + ABT Studio CompanyFisher Center, Sosnoff Theater,
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Charles Barker conductor
American Ballet Theatre Studio Company

Two of New York’s finest artistic training programs join forces as the talented graduate musicians of TŌN welcome the exceptional dancers of American Ballet Theatre Studio Company to the Fisher Center at Bard. Enjoy works by George Balanchine, Kevin McKenzie, Gerald Arpino, and others set to music by Verdi, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and more performed live by a full symphony orchestra.



All proceeds support TŌN’s innovative graduate program that is training the next generation of music professionals to become creative ambassadors for classical music, offering students a full-tuition fellowship and stipend.

Program

Tarantella
Choreography by George Balanchine
Music: Grand Tarantella for Piano and Orchestra by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, reconstructed and orchestrated by Hershy Kay

Crimson Flame
Choreography by Madison Brown
Music: String Quartet No. 2, Company, mvt. IV by Philip Glass
Commissioned by ABT Studio Company

Birthday Variations (Pas de Deux)
Choreography by Gerald Arpino
Music by Giuseppe Verdi, arranged by Jonathan McPhee

Night Falls
Choreography by Brady Farrar
Music: Nocturne No. 19 by Frederic Chopin
Commissioned by ABT Studio Company

Swan Lake Act III Pas de Deux
Choreography by Kevin McKenzie after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Music by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky

Human
Choreography by Yannick Lebrun
Music: Ngwa by Blick Bassy

U Don’t Know Me
Choreography by Houston Thomas
Music: Fratres by Avro Pärt
Commissioned by ABT Studio Company

ABT Studio Company

ABT Studio Company, the junior company of American Ballet Theatre, is made up of 12-18 rising stars of the ballet world between the ages of 17 and 21. ABT Studio Company prepares these outstanding young dancers, who hail from all over the globe, to enter American Ballet Theatre or other leading ballet companies worldwide. Nearly 80% of current dancers in American Ballet Theatre are alumni of ABT Studio Company, including 8 Soloists and 14 Principal Dancers-among them Misty Copeland, Isabella Boylston, and Calvin Royal III.

ABT Studio Company dancers perform masterworks of the classical and neoclassical canons alongside contemporary works. The group commissions a wide variety of choreographers to create new, custom ballets on the dancers each season, with a special focus on female choreographers.

The highly mobile ABT Studio Company serves as an ambassador for American Ballet Theatre by touring to venues large and small. In recent years, ABT Studio Company has performed in such international cities as London, Athens, Manila, Hong Kong, and St. Petersburg, and in a wide variety of US performing arts centers, college campuses, festivals, and galas.

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