Studio 5 at City Center
All tickets $35
Mon Dec 2, 2019
Barbara and David Zalaznick Studio
130 W 56th St, 5th Floor
This studio series takes audiences beyond the proscenium for intimate conversations and live performance excerpts from the great dance artists of today. Three events in Fall 2019 are hosted by dance critic and historian Alastair Macaulay.
In this event, virtuoso dancer Herman Cornejo celebrates his 20th anniversary with American Ballet Theatre in Fall 2019. Cornejo is recognized for his range as a performer in works from Giselle to Twyla Tharp’s Sinatra Suite; to premieres by Justin Peck and Alexei Ratmansky; to classics by Ashton, Balanchine, Fokine, MacMillan, and Robbins. Alastair Macaulay, in conversation with Cornejo and ABT Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie, explores an illustrious career and the significance of range. Cornejo performs excerpts from a broad selection of works alongside ABT Soloist Skylar Brandt. David LaMarche will accompany on the piano.
Alastair Macaulay was chief theatre critic of the Financial Times from 1994 to 2007, and chief dance critic of The New York Times from 2007 to 2018. In 1983, he was founding editor of the British quarterly Dance Theatre Journal; in 1988 and 1992, he was guest dance critic to The New Yorker. He has written the short biography Margot Fonteyn (1998) and an extensive book of interviews Matthew Bourne and his Adventures in Dance (2011). He has convened a series of seminars at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts on ballets from Giselle to Afternoon of a Faun, and has given public presentations there on dance from The Sleeping Beauty to Merce Cunningham. He is currently a Director’s Fellow at the NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts.
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