New York Theatre Ballet

In case you missed it, there are a few newly released seats available for TOMORROW! Find your tickets to LIFT Lab Live here- https://newyorktheatreballet.ticketleap.com/lift-lab-live-/

NEWLY RELEASED TICKETS! Tickets for both LIFT Lab shows TOMORROW, May 12, have just become available for purchase. Go to https://newyorktheatreballet.ticketleap.com/lift-lab-live-/ to find tickets. Hurry! Alexis Branagan in Amanda Treiber’s Wind-Up, photo by Richard Termine

We’re so sad to announce our last day of performances have been canceled today due to the weather. We are so grateful to have been part of this exhibit with @randominternational and thank @artsbrookfield and @superblue.art for including us. Photo by Jakob Dahlin

NYTB in Random International's Body / Light I: Free performances today and tomorrow at Manhattan West Plaza

See NYTB in Random International’s Body / Light I Thursday, May 6- Sunday, May 9 Free Performances: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM EST Manhattan West Plaza, Between 31st - 33rd St, 9 - 10th Ave... @randominternational @superblue.art @artsbrookfield @manhattanwestnyc Photo by Jakob Dahlin

Between the Acts: Agnes de Mille. The virtual discussion series continues this Sunday at 11am on Zoom!

Tonight! Between the Acts: a preseason virtual discussion with Diana Byer and William Whitener

Between the Acts: a preseason virtual discussion with Diana Byer and William Whitener. Tomorrow on Zoom!

Tickling Titans (Part IV), Steven Melendez’s new work for NYTB set to Rameau’s Les Cyclopes from Suite in D Major (1706) is featured on Program A. LIFT LAB LIVE continues through November 14. Link in bio or www.nytb.org for more info. Alexis Branagan pictured in Tickling Titans (Part IV), photo by @richardtermine

MEET THE COMPOSER Jean-Philippe Rameau was a prominent French composer and music theorist. Born in Dijon in 1683, his earliest compositions came in 1706 after he relocated to Paris, including many works for harpsichord as well as secular and sacred vocal works. He would gain further recognition for his treatises on music theory, the first of which was published in 1722. Later in life, Rameau would compose over 20 operas and opera-ballets. He died in 1764 in Paris. Tickling Titans (Part IV), Steven Melendez’s new work for NYTB set to Rameau’s Les Cyclopes from Suite in D Major (1706) is featured on Program A. LIFT LAB LIVE continues through November 14. Link in bio or www.nytb.org for more info.

MEET THE CHOREOGRAPHER Steven Melendez was born in New York City and started his ballet training at age seven with the LIFT Program at Ballet School New York. He has danced as a Soloist dancer with Ballet Concierto in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a Principal dancer with The Vanemuine Theater Ballet Company in Tartu, Estonia, and for over 15 years with New York Theatre Ballet. He is a national and international guest artist and teacher and has worked across Europe, Asia, and Centr...al and South America. Steven co-choreographed his first large-scale work, Song Before Spring for New York Theatre Ballet which was named a Dance Europe critic's choice Best Premiere of 2016. Steven is currently the Hiland Artistic Director for National Dance Institute New Mexico. Tickling Titans (Part IV), Steven’s new work for NYTB set to music by Jean-Philippe Rameau is featured on Program A. LIFT LAB LIVE continues through November 14. Link in bio or www.nytb.org for more info.

Program A of LIFT LAB LIVE is back this week Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday! Link in bio or www.nytb.org for more info. Amanda Treiber pictured in Gemma Bond’s Fall of the Leaf. Photos by @richardtermine

MEET THE COMPOSER Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany in 1685. After being orphaned at age 10, he lived with his older brother Johann Christoph and began studying the organ and the klavier. He was a highly prolific composer and served as Kapelle of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, as Kapellmeister at the court of Anhalt-Cöthen, and as Cantor at St. Thomas's in Leipzig, a position he held until his death in 1750. Though well regarded as an organist, his compositions fell largely out of favor, until a revival began with the performance of his St. Matthew Passion, conducted by Felix Mendelssohn in 1829. Richard Alston’s Distance, set to music by J.S. Bach, is featured on both Program A and B. LIFT LAB LIVE continues through November 14. Link in bio or www.nytb.org for more info.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Richard Alston! Wishing NYTB’s Resident Choreographer and dear friend a wonderful day! We are thrilled to have choreography by @richardalstondance featured on both Program A & B in NYTB’s fall season. MEET THE CHOREOGRAPHER Sir Richard Alston, Knighted in the 2019 Honours choreographed his first work in 1968. He went on to choreograph for Robert Cohan’s London Contemporary Dance Theatre before forming Britain’s first independent dance company, Strider, in 1...972. In 1975 he came to New York to study for two years. His teachers included Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, Viola Farber, Valda Setterfield, Gus Solomons Jr. and Alfredo Corvino. On his return to Europe he worked internationally as choreographer and teacher. In 1980 he was appointed Resident Choreographer of Ballet Rambert, becoming the company’s Artistic Director from 1986-1992. During his time there he created 25 works for Rambert, besides being commissioned to create works for the Royal Danish Ballet (Dances from the Kingdom of Pagodas, 1982) and the Royal Ballet (Midsummer, 1983). As Artistic Director of Rambert, he commissioned work from Merce Cunningham (Touchbase, 1991); Lucinda Childs (Four Elements, 1988, designed by the painter Jennifer Bartlett); and David Gordon (Mates, 1987). In the repertoire also were Antony Tudor’sDark Elegies, Merce Cunningham’s Septet andDoubles, and Frederick Ashton’sCapriol Suite. In 1994 he formed his own company, where he took up the post of Artistic Director of The Place. Over the past 24 years, Alston has made over 37 pieces for his company. He made his first commissioned work for New York Theatre Ballet,A Rugged Flourish, in 2011 and his secondThe Seasons. He has also remountedLight Flooding into Darkened RoomsandSuch Longingfor NYTB.

Tights, pointe shoes, mask. Happy World Ballet Day 2020! NYTB acknowledges & celebrates everything all artists are doing these days to keep our art alive! #worldballetday

MEET THE COMPOSER Alexis Ffrench (b. 1970) is an English pianist/composer who trained at the Purcell School, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the Royal Academy. His debut album Evolution on Sony Records reached No. 1 on the UK Official Classical Artist Album Charts in 2018. Ffrench wants to change the way people perceive classical music and to help make it more inclusive and democratic, more relevant to the society in which we live. Alexis Ffrench is on Spotify and Instagram, @alexisffrench. Victor Abreu’s new work to music by Alexis Ffrench is featured on Program B. LIFT LAB LIVE continues through November 14, link in bio or visit www.nytb.org for info.

MEET THE CHOREOGRAPHER Victor Abreu is a member of New York City Ballet’s corps de ballet. Mr. Abreu was born in New York, New York, and began his training at the age of 10 at New York Theatre Ballet under Diana Byer. In January 2019, Mr. Abreu was named an apprentice with NYCB and in May 2019 he joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. PROGRAM B of LIFT LAB LIVE kicks off today, including Victor’s new work for NYTB with music by Alexis Ffrench. NYTB’s fall sea...son runs through November 14, link in bio or visit www.nytb.org for more info. Photo of Victor Abreu by Erin Baiano.

The new rules of performance not only let the outside in but also enhanced the program, which began with Jean Volpe’s Speranza for Mónica Lima, whose filigree footwork filled the stage with a loveliness that matched her gentle look. Head to toe in pink including her mask she could have stepped out of a jewelry box. -The New York Times LIFT LAB LIVE continues through November 14. More info in the link in our bio! Mónica Lima pictured in Jean Volpe’s Speranza. Photo by @richardtermine

MEET THE COMPOSER Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born in London in 1875. As a child he studied the violin, but quickly brought his focus to composition after being accepted into the Royal College of Music at age 15. His works would later be championed by Edward Elgar, leading to three tours to the United States, during one of which he was received at the White House by Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. These tours also brought to Coleridge-Taylor a curiosity about his heritage, partic...ularly that of his father's ancestors who had fought alongside the British during the American Revolution in exchange for their freedom from slavery and safe passage to England. He sought to incorporate African folk melodies into his music, in his words the same as what Brahms has done for Hungarian music, Dvorak for the Bohemian, and Grieg for the Norwegian." Coleridge-Taylor died in 1912 in Croydon at the age of 37. Jean Volpe's new ballet on Program A uses the 4th movement from Coleridge-Taylor's Forest Scenes op. 66 for solo piano, composed in 1907. LIFT LAB LIVE continues through November 14 at NYTB. More info in the link in our bio!

MEET THE CHOREOGRAPHER Jean Volpe trained at the Juilliard School and with Margaret Craske. She danced as a soloist with the Zurich Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera. Ms. Volpe has taught classical technique at the 92nd Street Y and currently teaches at New York Theatre Ballet School and the Sarasota Ballet School. Speranza, Jean’s new solo work for NYTB set to music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, is featured on Program A. LIFT LAB LIVE continues through November 14. More info in the link in our bio!

LIFT LAB LIVE in The New Yorker! NYTB’s fall season opens tomorrow and runs through November 14 https://www.newyorker.com//new-york-theatre-ballet-10-26-2