To celebrate its first fall season, NYCB will have a fall gala on October 7th. It will feature the premiere of a new ballet by Benjamin Millepied set to a score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang. The program will also include Balanchine’s Tarantella and Western Symphony and Robbins’ I’m Old Fashioned (photographed above, by Paul Kolnik). Sarah Jessica Parker, newly elected to the NYCB Board of Directors, will serve as the event’s honorary chair.
Benefit tickets, which include a pre-performance cocktail reception and post-performance supper ball are available for $1500, $2500, and $5000 and tickets for the performance and cocktail reception are $250. The cocktail reception will begin at 5:30, the performance at 7, and the supper will follow. Click below to read the full press release.
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