Joyce Theater's Ballet Festival

The Joyce Theater's Ballet Festival returns this summer with UNITE, a one-week celebration of the long bright line of ballet. Creatively directed and co-produced by Calvin Royal III, Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre, this year's festival brings together a global community of distinguished artists from nine esteemed companies across five continents, spanning four generations, a beautiful array of ethnicities all to share and celebrate our collective humanity through dance.

UNITE also connects the arc of ballet with the best of its present and future artists and master choreographers with works by Sir Kenneth MacMillan, George Balanchine, and Angelin Preljocaj and a selection of contemporary, New York and world-premiere works. Adding to the festival's allure, Royal debuts a self-choreographed solo alongside creations by fellow dancers of American Ballet Theatre, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Boston Ballet, and more.

Program Schedule:

Run Time: One hour and 45 minutes including one intermission

Apollo Solo and Pas de Deux (George Balanchine/Igor Stravinsky)
Cast: Chyrstyn Fentroy, Calvin Royal III
Jacek Mysinski (piano;) Kobi Malkin (violin)

Night Pieces (Duncan Lyle/Robert Schuman)
Cast: Kyra Coco, Ingrid Thoms, Duncan MacIlwain, Tristan Brosnan
Jacek Mysinski (piano)

Impatiens (Aleisha Walker/Nathan Milstein)
World Premiere
Cast: Aleisha Walker
Kobi Malkin (violin)

Rozzi Suite (James Whiteside/Rozzi)
Cast: Isabella Boylston, James Whiteside
Jacek Mysinski (piano); Rozzi (vocals)

Moonlight (Calvin Royal III/Claude Debussy)
Cast: Calvin Royal III
Jacek Mysinski (piano)

Manon Bedroom Pas de Deux (Sir Kenneth MacMillan/Jules Massenet)
Cast: Sae Eun Park, Paul Marque

Excerpts from Flight (Jae Man Joo/Johann Sebastian Bach)
Cast: Herman Cornejo

TBD (Alonzo King)
Cast: Adji Cissoko, Shuaib Elhassan

Petalwing (Adriana Pierce/David K. Israel)
World Premiere
Cast: Ingrid Thoms, Kyra Coco

Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux (George Balanchine/Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Cast: Chloe Misseldine, Calvin Royal III

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