We’re excited to announce our lineup of BT Alumni classes for the remainder of October! If you would like to participate, please sign up via the link in our bio. Please keep in mind the Jotform signup will close the Thursday at 5pm before each Saturday class. The first class is happening this Saturday, October 12th at 12pm. Hope to see you there!
More info about classes in November & December coming soon.
Happy 88th birthday to Steve Reich! Steve Reich is known for his innovative minimalist musical compositions, which resonated with Eliot Feld so deeply that he choreographed 15 ballets to Reich’s music! His music is noted for its “perceptible processes,” where the careful layering of repetitive figures allows the listener to hear each shift in the music as the pattern changes.
Two of the public domain ballets we shared over the summer feature Reich’s music, “Tongue & Groove” and “Aurora,” check them out on our page if you are interested in experiencing the variety of Reich & Feld’s artistic harmony.
Here’s the complete list of all the ballets Eliot choreographed to Reich’s music:
The Grand Canon 1985
Aurora I & II 1985
Medium: Rare 1985
Bent Planes 1986
Echo 1986
Kore 1988
Clave 1991
Ion 1991
Tongue and Groove 1995
Chi 1995
A Stair Dance 2004
Proverb 2004
Sir Isaac’s Apples 2005
Isis In Transit 2008
Photo credits:
Image 1: Steve Reich photographed by Jeffrey Herman; Image 2: Buffy Miller in “Kore” photographed by Lois Greenfield; Image 3: Fang-Yi Sheu in “Isis in Transit” photographed by Lois Greenfield; Image 4: Chris Vo in “Proverb” photographed by Lois Greenfield; Image 5: “A Stair Dance” photographed by Stephanie Berger.
MZ Wallace, a designer bag company based in NYC, collaborated with New York City Ballet (NYCB) Principal Dancers Megan Fairchild and Joseph Gordon to create a collection of bags with the specific needs of dancers in mind. The Dancer Collection has officially launched today and we are incredibly excited to announce that Monica Zwirner and Lucy Wallace Eustice, the founders of MZ Wallace, have generously decided to donate 10% of all sales to Ballet Tech to support our Ballet Tech Across New York (BTANY) enrichment program! In addition, MZ Wallace donated 120 bags to Ballet Tech for us to distribute to our students.
On September 16, Megan Fairchild and Joseph Gordon visited Ballet Tech alongside MZ Wallace Director of Marketing Eliza Sniatkowski, Brand Consultant Anja Tyson, and photographer Cynthia Edorh to surprise our students with the new bags! We are deeply grateful to MZ Wallace for this generous contribution and would like to extend a huge thank you to all who helped make it happen.
Please enjoy these photos from the surprise announcement, taken by Cynthia Edorh.
From left to right: Joseph Gordon, Megan Fairchild, Eliza Sniatkowski, Anja Tyson
From left to right: Megan Fairchild, BT Executive Director Maggie Christ, BT Artistic Director Dionne Figgins, BT Principal Veronica York, BT Director of External Affairs Andrew Ennis, Eliza Sniatkowski, Joseph Gordon.