Join the ABT JKO School for the 2023-2024 school year! 🌟
In-person auditions for new Children’s Division students ages 7-12* will be June 6 & June 7.
abt.org/training/dance
*Must turn 8 yrs old by 12/1/23, or must remain 12 through 12/1/23).
📷: Rosalie O'Connor
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Join the ABT Junior Council at our White Hot Summer Party TOMORROW June 1st 🔥 Breakout your favorite white cocktail affaire and join us at The Set Club in Hudson Yards!
🎟 support.abt.org/whitehotparty
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ABT's MEMORIAL DAY MERCH SALE is HERE 🎉
Make sure to check out abt.org/shop to receive 25% off select items NOW through May 29th! Hurry before items sell out - find the perfect shirt, sweatshirt, or accessory for you or your loved ones!
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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY from ABT 💞
Celebrating 2 ABT Legends Cheryl Yeager and Yan Chen, both former company dancers with ABT and moms to two of our current company dancers Hannah Marshall and Chloe Misseldine ❤️
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Serving you some of the best BTS from our last 2 tour stops in Nebraska and Iowa! UP NEXT: 2023 Summer Season !
🎟️: bit.ly/ABT23_MET23_Su
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TIX are still available for the ABT JKO School Pre-Professional Division’s SPRING PERFORMANCE at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts! 📷
Join us on May 18 at 7PM and May 20 at 1:30PM to see the next generation of talent.
🎟: bit.ly/ABT23_JKO_Skir
🎥: Madge Reyes
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Happy Cinco de Mayo! 🇲🇽
Join us in celebrating Mexican culture & traditions with our new ballet LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE, bringing Laura Esquivel's novel to life through an experience that celebrates family, love & food in Mexican culture.
📸: João Menegussi and Marty Sohl
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pointemagazine.com/sunmi-park-bal
Read about Park's big breakthrough in ABT's newest production LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE, which will be kicking off ABT's 2023 Summer Season at the Metropolitan Opera House, featuring 4 performances with Park in the title role!
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ABT'S SUMMER SEASON | June 22-July 22 at the Metropolitan Opera House
TICKETS ON SALE NOW 🎟 DON’T WAIT
ABT's Summer season | June 22-July 22 | LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE | GISELLE | SWAN LAKE | ROMEO & JULIET |
🎟: abt.org
Filmed by: UNDERHILL Productions
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LAST CHANCE TO GET DISCOUNTED TIX FOR #ABTStudioCompany: SPRING MOVES May 19 &20 at NYU Skirball!!
Hop on the early bird discount and receive $5 off your tickets by the END OF TODAY.
Full pricing goes into effect April 19!
🎟: bit.ly/ABT23_StuCo_Sk
📷: Quinn Wharton
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#ABTStudioCompany is taking off for their Asia tour with performances featuring a mix of classical and neoclassical repertoire, alongside new works by Gemma Bond, Hope Boykin, Houston Thomas, and Aleisha Walker. ✈️
For more info on ABT's Asia Tour: bit.ly/ABT23_StuCo_Sp
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ABT's LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE had it's North American Premiere last night at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California!
Only 5 more performances of LWFC in Costa Mesa, CA. ABT's Summer Season at the MET Opera will open with LWFC June 22 - July 2 in New York!
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US PREMIERE of Christopher Wheeldon's LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE is TONIGHT at in Costa Mesa, CA!
Don't miss our 6 show run from 03/29 to 04/02 🧡 We hope to see you there!
🎟: bit.ly/ABT23_Tour_Seg
📷: @fabrizioferriofficial
#ABT #ABTOnTour
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Wishing #ABTDancers Chloe Misseldine & Tristan Brosnan merde as they compete TONIGHT in The International Competition for The Erik Bruhn Prize in Toronto, Canada!
Livestream from 7:30pm EST to 10:30pm EST.
#BruhnPrize
Link: national.ballet.ca/Productions/Th
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#ABTStudioCompany is flying into their FINAL performance of their Spring 2023 Tour TONIGHT in Palm Desert, California! 💥
📸: Madison Brown, Yuma Matsuura, and Finnian Carmeci in FOR WHAT IS IT ALL WORTH? by Hope Boykin. Photo by Erin Baiano
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Robin Preiss Glasser, bestselling illustrator of the FANCY NANCY series, and her sister, critically acclaimed children’s author, Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman joined the students of the ABT JKO School to share the first book of their two-part series, titled GLORIA’S PROMISE 📚🩰
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#ABTStudioCompany takes the stage TONIGHT in Escondido, California for their Spring 2023 Tour! ✨
Don't miss #ABTStudioCo at their final tour stop in Palm Desert, CA tomorrow night (3/22)!
🎟: bit.ly/ABT23_StuCo_Sp
📸: Kyra Coco & Finnian Carmeci in CONCERTO by MacMillan.
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- ABT's GISELLE one last time in North Carolina 💔 -
#ABTPrincipals Skylar Brandt and Herman Cornejo rehearsing under the watchful eye of ABT Artistic Director Susan Jaffe, for our final afternoon performance at DPAC ✨
#ABT #AmericanBalletTheatre
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TONIGHT 💥 #ABTPrincipals Christine Shevchenko and Calvin Royal III take to the DPAC stage for GISELLE!
One more chance to see GISELLE tomorrow afternoon, don't miss it!
🎟: bit.ly/ABT23_Tour_Dur
#ABT #AmericanBalletTheatre
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Today is opening night of GISELLE at DPAC!!! 🤍
Our gorgeous #ABTPrincipal Skylar Brandt rehearsing as ‘Giselle’ (performing 3/19 mat)
🎟️: bit.ly/ABT23_Tour_Dur
#AmericanBalletTheatre #ABTOnTour #Giselle
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STELLA ABRERA NAMED ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS SCHOOL 🎉
📷: Photo by Sophie Elgort, courtesy of Lafayette 148.
Photo by Rosalie O’Connor.
Photo by Rosalie O’Connor.
Photo by Gene Schiavone.
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Taking GISELLE on the road to in Durham, North Carolina! ✈
Fun Fact: #ABTPrincipal Gillian Murphy is "manège-ing" her way back to her old stomping grounds as she returns to the North Carolina stage for our Friday Eve performance (3/17)!
🎟: bit.ly/ABT23_Tour_Dur
#ABT
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ABT's next generation of talent putting in some serious work behind the scenes! 💥
Catch #ABTStudioCompany on tour!
Wed, March, 15 | Sedona, AZ
Thurs, March, 16 | Farmington, NM
Tues, March, 21 | Escondido, CA
Wed, March, 22 | Palm Desert, CA
🎟: bit.ly/ABT23_StuCo_Sp
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Inside peek 👀 at our LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE rehearsals as we prepare for our North American Premiere in Costa Mesa, CA in 2 weeks!
#ABTSoloist Luciana Paris rehearsing Nacha. Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon.
#AmericanBalletTheatre #ABTOnTour #ABTMet23
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#InternationalWomensDay at ABT!!!
For the first time in our history, we are proud to have 3 incredible women leading ABT 💕
Susan Jaffe: Artistic Director
Janet Rollé: CEO & Executive Director
Stella Abrera: Acting Artistic Director, ABT JKO School
📷:
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ABT Studio Company is hitting the road for their first stop on tour ✈️: New Hampshire!
#ABTStuCo dancer Takumi Miyake looking sharp in KNIFE'S EDGE by Houston Thomas 💥
#ABTStudioCompany #ABT
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Getting ready for the US Premiere of LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE at 03/29 - 04/02 in CA✨!
Catch the NY Premiere 06/22 - 07/01!
#ABT Soloist SunMi Park rehearsing Tita (3/30, 4/1 eve)
Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon
#ABT #ABTOnTour #ABTMet23
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Tune in to NBC News TONIGHT for a special segment featuring ABT's Artistic Director Susan Jaffe!
This piece will run during the 8pm ET hour of NOW Tonight on NBC News NOW.
#ABT #americanballettheatre
📷: Photo: MIRA.
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Goodbye R&J! Headed back to NYC to prepare for Giselle 💕 See you March 16-19!
Thank you and all of our amazing audiences for making this such a special tour.
#ABTPrincipal Catherine Hurlin & Calvin Royal III 💔
#AmericanBalletTheatre #ABTOnTour
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Swan Sighting 🦢 | Never too early to start rehearsing for the MET season 💪
#ABTPrincipal Skylar Brandt rehearsing Odette 🤍
SWAN LAKE: July 10-15 at the Metropolitan Opera House
#ABTMet23 #AmericanBalletTheatre
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- DEBUT ALERT -
#ABTPrincipal dancer Catherine Hurlin is making her Juliet debut alongside Principal dancer Calvin Royal III February 16th !!! ❤️
This is not one to miss! 🎟: bit.ly/ABT23_Tour_Ken
#AmericanBalletTheatre #ABTOnTour
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ABT is proud to announce that ABT dancer Aleisha Walker won the Young Creation Award at the 2023 Prix de Lausanne Competition in Lausanne, Switzerland for her solo work DO YOU CARE?, performed by Madison Brown. Congrats!
📷: (from left to right) Madison Brown and Aleisha Walker
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Turning into the new year here at #ABT! Class is back in session and we are in the studios preparing LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE, GISELLE, ROMEO & JULIET, and SWAN LAKE 🤍
📷: #ABTSoloist Chloe Misseldine
#AmericanBalletTheatre
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LUPE SERRANO 1930 - 2023
ABT is deeply saddened by the passing of legendary #ABTPrincipal Lupe Serrano, whose grace & beauty impacted innumerable dancers across the generations. Her legacy, as a dancer then a teacher, lives on.
📷 - Jack Mitchell, Fred Fehl, Maurice Seymour
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Congratulations to our ABT JKO Children’s Division students who performed this weekend as supers at with in ROMEO + JULIET!
Thank you Hong Kong Ballet for this incredible performance opportunity 🌟
📷: Hong Kong Ballet staff & #ABTJKO parents
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In honor of #MLKDay we honor and celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Now more than ever, his leadership, wisdom, and tenacity shine bright.
📷: by Boris Chaliapin (1904–1979) / Watercolor and pencil on board, 1957 | Gift of Time magazine
Smithsonian | NPG
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ABT INCUBATOR 2023 premieres TONIGHT 💥✨
We are excited to present our first ever live in person viewing of ABT INCUBATOR, featuring works by Eva Alt, Mark Caserta, Roderick George, Luciana Paris, & Tyler Maloney.
📷: João Mengussi
menegussiphotography.pixieset.com
#ABTIncubator
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Looking forward to our 2nd weekend of the 2023 ABT Summer Intensive National Audition Tour!
This weekend: Boca Raton, Dallas, Tampa, Houston, Orlando & Washington, DC. Additional auditions in Boca Raton and DC for the #ABTJKO School.
See you on the tour ✈️🗺🩰
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Join us for the first ever live public showing of #ABTIncubator - a choreographic program providing a focused lab for the creation of new work.
6pm Fri (01/13)
🎟: bit.ly/ABTIncubator20
🧠: Eva Alt, Mark Caserta, Roderick George, Tyler Maloney, Luciana Paris
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