Two ballets made a world premiere with costumes by ChristopherJohnRogers and Esteban Cortázar
For New York City balletomanes, last night marked a return to normalcy. After several canceled seasons, a city that had been sorely missing its ballet got it back. Though throughout the pandemic, digital streams of the artform were plentiful, absolutely nothing can come close to the thrill and majesty of witnessing a live ballet performance.
Designers were in the house; yes, Christopher John Rogers and Esteban Cortázar but also Kerby Jean-Raymond, Laura Kim, Cynthia Rowley, Zac Posen, and Prabal Gurung. . But there was also fashion on the bodies of everyone in attendance. Kelsey Lu dazzled in a striped CJR, gala co-chair Diane Kruger wore a delightful Jason Wu number, Gurung wore a jacket of his own design, and dancer Unity Phelan wore pink Carolina Herrera.
First on the program was Jerome Robbins’s wonderful “Glass Pieces,” with music by Philip Glass. Dancers Maria Kowroski and Amar Ramasar dazzled in the piece that Robbins injected with an energy of a Metropolis with balletic equivalents to missed connections and happenstance encounters. Next came the world premiere of “Suspended Animation,” which was choreographed by Sidra Bell.
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