Opening Night [LIMITED AVAILABILITY]

Performance Details

GERALD R. FORD AMPHITHEATER

Opening Night kicks off the season featuring artists and companies making appearances throughout the Festival including Dance Theatre of Harlem, Limón Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre principal dancers Catherine Hurlin and Aran Bell, tap dance luminary Michelle Dorrance, LINES Ballet star Adji Cissoko, Artist-In-Residence Sara Mearns (NYCB), and ballroom champions Denys Drozdyuk and Antonina Skobina. In the second half of the evening, guest stars including Lauren Lovette, Isabella Boylston (ABT), and Unity Phelan (NYCB) join Colorado Ballet in a special performance of George Balanchine’s landmark ballet Serenade, with Tschaikovsky’s score performed live by the National Repertory Orchestra conducted by Michael Stern.

Generously underwritten by Lisa Tannebaum & Donald Brownstein.

PRINTED PROGRAM

JAM SESSION 2024
Music: Artists
Choreography: Artists
Performers: Adji Cissoko, Michelle Dorrance, Ron Myles, Denys Drozdyuk & Antonina Skobina

Suite from A CHOREOGRAPHIC OFFERING
Music: J.S. Bach, Musical Offering
Choreography: José Limón (1964)
Performers: Natalie Clevenger, Joey Columbus, Mj Edwards, Kieran King, Deepa Liegel, Olivia Mozie, Eric Parra, Nicholas Ruscica, Jessica Sgambelluri, Savannah Spratt, Lauren Twomley

WHEN LOVE
Music: Philip Glass
“Knee Play 5” from Einstein on the Beach
Choreography: Helen Pickett
Performers: Alexandra Hutchinson, Micah Bullard
ELÉGIE
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Choreography: George Balanchine, © The George Balanchine Trust
Performer: Artist-in-Residence Sara Mearns

LE CORSAIRE
Act 3 Pas de Deux
Music: Adolphe Adam
Choreography after Marius Petipa
Performers: Catherine Hurlin, Aran Bell

SERENADE
Music: Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky
Choreography: George Balanchine ©The George Balanchine Trust
Performers: Isabella Boylston, Lauren Lovette, Unity Phelan, Chun Wai Chan, James Whiteside & Colorado Ballet

Casting and repertory are subject to change.

Photo credit: Lauren Lovette with Colorado Ballet in Serenade. Choreography by George Balanchine. © The George Balanchine Trust. Photo by Erin Baiano.