BalletCollective 10th Anniversary Season Performance and Benefit

Featuring the NYC Premiere of

the first full ballet created and performed in the U.S. after the start of the pandemic plus two iconic BalletCollective works.

Choreography by Troy Schumacher

Music by Ellis Ludwig-Leone and Judd Greenstein

Contributing artists: Zaria Forman, Carey McHugh, and David Salle

321 East 73rd Street

the first ballet created and performed live in the US during the pandemic, inspired by poems from Carey McHugh with music by Ellis Ludwig-Leone

from our collaboration with climate artist Zaria Forman and composer Judd Greenstein

painter David Salle presented Troy Schumacher and composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone a series of mysterious croppings from a large work-in-progress

Seating is extremely limited inside the 3,700 square foot, double height ballroom. All audience members must provide proof of vaccination and remain masked for the duration of the performance. Approximate running time is 60 minutes.

Dancers: Devin Alberda, Daniel Applebaum, Harrison Coll, Jovani Furlan, Emilie Gerrity, Anthony Huxley, Lauren King, Claire Kretzschmar, Ashley Laracey, Mary Thomas MacKinnon, Mira Nadon, Lorenzo Pagano, Davide Riccardo, and Leslie Andrea Williams.

Live Music from: Members of The Knights with Special Guests

Founded in 2010 by Troy Schumacher, BalletCollective (BC) creates and performs forward-thinking works that reflect the world we live in. BC commissions emerging, established and acclaimed choreographers, composers, writers and visual artists to collaborate on ballet based works. BC exclusively performs commissioned, collaborative work.

Each BalletCollective project takes as its source a contemporary work of art in any medium chosen or commissioned by its choreographer and composer. From this starting point, the choreographer and composer collaborate to create a work that interprets, explores, or responds to its source. The result of the collaboration is performed live. By its nature, BalletCollective consists of a rotating group of artists and collaborators, and with each new collective there are new ideas, new challenges, and, ultimately, new forms of expression emerge.

Founded in 2010 by choreographer Troy Schumacher, BalletCollective has collaborated with a roster of over 100 acclaimed artists, choreographers, composers, musicians, designers, and dancers, including Zaria Forman, Ellis Ludwig-Leone, Karen Russell, James Ramsey, Ken Liu, Julianna Barwick, David Salle, Dafy Hagai, Judd Greenstein, Gabrielle Lamb, Preston Chamblee, and Cynthia Zarin, and produced fourteen new ballets. Recently, BalletCollective has been presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Joyce Theater, NYU Skirball Center, Guggenheim Works & Process, Guggenheim Bilbao, the Fire Island Dance Festival, and the Savannah Music Festival.

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, BalletCollective commissioned. produced and safely performed live both the first world-premiere one-act ballet, Natural History, and the first full-length world premiere ballet, The Nutcracker at Wethersfield, in the US.

BalletCollective is grateful for the ongoing support of our patrons. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. re-MEMBERING is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. 

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