The Jerome Robbins Dance Division Annual Symposium 2025

Join the Jerome Robbins Dance Division for its annual symposium, where the current class of Dance Research Fellows will present their projects on Mikhail Baryshnikov and his legacy.

The Jerome Robbins Dance Division’s annual symposium is the culmination of the Dance Research Fellowship, an annual cohort of dance scholars and artists invited to research a specific aspect of dance. This year’s class features Marina Harss, Marcelline Mandeng Nken, Maria Vinogradova, Brian Seibert, Alessandra Nicifero, and Jordan Demetrius Lloyd.

The symposium consists of an all-day series of presentations by these fellows at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Looking to attend virtually? Please register here.

Mikhail Baryshnikov: Beyond Boundaries

10:00 AM - Marina Harss

You Can Never Go Home—Baryshnikov, Balanchine, Ratmansky, émigré artists in New York

11:00 AM - Marcelline Mandeng Nken

Queening The Knight: Baryshnikov’s Vulnerability and Masculinity On Display

12:00 PM - Maria Vinogradova

Baryshnikov and the Kirov Cohort: Their Soviet Years on 8mm Film

2:00 PM - Brian Seibert

Baryshnikov, the American Dancer

3:00 PM - Alessandra Nicifero

Dancing in exile as a collaborative practice of citizenship: Alvis Hermanis’ Brodsky/Baryshnikov in conversation with Trisha Brown’s Homemade

4:00 PM - Jordan Demetrius Lloyd

Mikhail Baryshnikov: Registers of Performance in 2024

If you plan on attending all six fellow presentations, please select the All Day Pass ticket type.

If you plan on attending only one or a select few presentations, please choose those specific session(s) at checkout. Note that your ticket is only valid for the session(s) you choose at checkout.

SEATING POLICY | Programs are free and open to all, but registration is requested. The check-in line forms 30 minutes before the advertised start time. While registration does not guarantee admittance to the auditorium, registered guests are given priority check-in. Ten minutes before the advertised start time, all seats are released, regardless of registration, to our patrons in the stand-by line. If you arrive after the program starts, you will be seated at the discretion of the house manager. Registered guests who are not able to get a seat may still view the program in our overflow seating.

STANDBY LINE | If registration is sold out or has ended, do not fret! We welcome you to come to the Library regardless of registration status and wait in our standby line, which forms 30 minutes before the advertised start time. While this is not guaranteed, we will do our best to get you into any of our programs.

ASSISTIVE LISTENING AND ASL | ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing [email protected].

BRUNO WALTER POLICY | Please note that any unoccupied seat will be released five minutes before the show begins and holding seats for anyone beyond that is prohibited. There is no food or drink allowed inside the venue.

AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING | The Jerome Robbins Dance Division’s Annual Symposium will be photographed and recorded for the archive. If you would prefer your image not be captured, please let us know and we can seat you accordingly. Attending any program indicates your consent to being filmed/photographed and your consent to the use of your recorded image for any and all purposes of the New York Public Library.

PRESS | Please send all press inquiries to Alex Teplitzky at [email protected]. Please note that all recording, including professional video recordings, are prohibited without expressed consent from the Library.

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