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See the next generation of ballet talent! ABT Studio Company presents a richly varied program of newly commissioned works alongside classical and neoclassical selections. Repertoire includes the World Premiere of Beyond the Silence by ABT dancer Brady Farrar; New York City Premieres of U Don’t Know Me by Houston Thomas and Crimson Flame by ABT dancer Madison Brown; Human by Yannick Lebrun; More Than Nothing by ABT Principal Dancer James Whiteside; George Balanchine’s Tarantella; Jerome Robbins’s Interplay; Gerald Arpino’s Birthday Variations pas de deux; and the iconic Black Swan pas de deux from Kevin McKenzie’s Swan Lake.
Repertoire subject to change.
Friday, May 16, 2025 at 7:30pm
Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 7:30pm
NYU Skirball
566 LaGuardia Place
(Between West 3rd and West 4th Street)
New York, New York
Tickets (pricing includes fees)
Center orchestra: $61
Side orchestra, parterre: $55
Students: $25 (purchased in person at the box office with a valid student ID)
Groups: Groups of 10 or more save 10%! To arrange a group sale, please call the NYU Skirball box office at 212-998-4941 or email group.tickets@nyu.edu.
WORLD PREMIERE
Beyond the Silence
Choreography by Brady Farrar
Music by Sergei Rachmaninoff
NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE
U Don’t Know Me
Choreography by Houston Thomas
Music by Avro Pärt
NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE
Crimson Flame
Choreography by Madison Brown
Music by Phillip Glass
More Than Nothing
Choreography by James Whiteside
Music by Matthew Whitaker
Human
Choreography by Yannick Lebrun
Music by Blick Bassy
Tarantella
Choreography by George Balanchine
Music by Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Interplay
Choreography by Jerome Robbins
Music by Morton Gould
Birthday Variations (pas de deux)
Choreography by Gerald Arpino
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Swan Lake (Act III pas de deux)
Choreography by Kevin McKenzie after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Music by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
American Ballet Theatre Studio Company seeks to develop the next generation of ballet dancers, choreographers, and audiences.
The central mission of ABT Studio Company is to prepare its dancers of exceptional potential (currently ages 17-22) for careers in American Ballet Theatre’s main Company or other leading ballet companies worldwide. ABT Studio Company serves as the crucial vehicle for transitioning from student to professional performer. Nearly 85% of current American Ballet Theatre dancers are alumni of ABT Studio Company, including sixteen Principal Dancers and eight Soloists.
Each season, ABT Studio Company commissions emerging and/or established choreographers to create new works on Studio Company dancers, serving as a platform for new choreography.
ABT Studio Company engages the broadest possible ballet audience by performing classical, neoclassical, and contemporary repertoire in a range of venues around the globe.
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