Spac on Stage Saratoga Performing Arts Center July 23
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Saratoga Performing Arts Eye has announced the render of its resident companies – New York City Ballet and The Philadelphia Orchestra – to their summer home in Saratoga Springs for a various season featuring SPAC premieres and debuts by women and BIPOC (Blackness, Ethnic, People of Color) composers, choreographers, performers and conductors, alongside iconic masterworks of the classical repertoire.
New York City Ballet (NYCB) will return with the full company from July 12 through 16, with its roster of more than 90 dancers under the direction of artistic director Jonathan Stafford and associate artistic director Wendy Whelan, accompanied past the New York City Ballet Orchestra, led by music managing director Andrew Litton.
The company will present iv programs including the full-length story ballet A Midsummer Night'southward Dream; an evening dedicated to 20th Century Masters highlighted by Merce Cunningham's Summerspace, returning for the showtime time since 1967; and a programme showcasing works past contemporary choreographers including new pieces by Jamar Roberts and Pam Tanowitz, and the return of Justin Peck's In Creases, gracing the SPAC stage for the first fourth dimension since its globe premiere at SPAC in 2012.
Back past popular need is too a special NYCB On and Off Stage presentation designed to innovate the season with an intimate, up-close look at selected excerpts from the company's repertory of ballets that volition exist featured during the residency.
"Afterwards two long years without the total New York Metropolis Ballet in residence at SPAC, it is tremendously exciting to be announcing the render of the total Company in July 2022," SPAC President and CEO Elizabeth Sobol said in a press release. "Information technology will be a perfect celebration of their render with timeless works of Balanchine and Robbins, SPAC debuts by Jamar Roberts and Pam Tanowitz, the return of Merce Cunningham's Summerspace, dear story ballet A Midsummer Nighttime's Dream, and NYCB On and Off Phase. The latter, born from the need to conform to COVID guidelines in 2021, was a format that was immensely popular with audiences.
"It volition be a perfect kick off to the residency – as both an intimate behind the scenes await at NYCB equally well equally a poignant reminder as to how far nosotros will have come since March of 2020."
The Philadelphia Orchestra 3-week residency, from July 27 through Aug. thirteen, volition feature music director Yannick Nézet-Séguinleading iv programs including a finale featuring Beethoven'south Ninth Symphony.
Highlighting the residency is the return of earth-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Joshua Bell alongside star soprano Larisa Martinez. Making their 2022 SPAC debuts is a diverse roster of artists including 14n-time Grammy nominee Ledisi singing the music of Nina Simone, pianist and NPR host Lara Downes, soprano Angel Blueish, 26-year-old superstar violinist Randall Goosby, and Philadelphia'due south premier gimmicky ballet visitor, BalletX, performing a new work choreographed past NYCB's Tiler Peck.
Also featured will exist more than than a dozen SPAC premieres including the Eastward Coast premiere of Contact by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts composed for the genre-crossing ensemble Time for Iii.
SPAC's popular film nights will return also to delight audiences of all ages as the orchestra accompanies, live to picture, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ in Concert and The Princess Bride in Concert.
"SPAC'south ambitious and artistically inspiring programming continues our effort to bring pregnant contemporary works and iconic classics that have never been performed at SPAC to our stage, while also presenting a record number of works by BIPOC and female person composers throughout the season," Sobol said in the release.
Tickets volition be available start on March 7 for members (tiered past level) and on March xvi for the general public. New for this season, evening performances will be held at seven:30 p.m.
SPAC will keep to monitor health and rubber guidelines mandated by New York state and the CDC and will accommodate ticketing and condom policies accordingly. Total guidelines will be published in accelerate of ticket sales and may be constitute online at spac.org.
Source: https://www.saratogian.com/2022/01/23/new-york-city-ballet-philadelphia-orchestra-to-return-to-spac-for-summer-residencies
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