Ballet Festival: Jerome Robbins

New York City Ballet standout Tiler Peck curates and stars in this year's edition of the Joyce's Ballet Festival, which is devoted to works by Jerome Robbins, the longtime NYCB Ballet Master in Chief and legendary Broadway director-choreographer. The run is divided into two main programs and performed to music by Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven and Stravinsky. Program A (Aug 12, 14 and 16 at 7:30pm) features Four Bagatelles, A Suite of Dances and excerpts from Dance at a Gathering; Roman Mejia performs A Suite of Dances—which was created for Mikhail Baryshnikov—on August 12 and 14, and Peck herself dances it on August 16, becoming the first woman ever to do so. Program B (Aug 13 and 15 at 7:30pm and Aug 16 at 2pm) comprises Rondo, Other Dances, Concertino and In the Night. The run concludes on August 17 with a hybrid program: Four Bagatelles, In the Night and Peck in A Suite of Dances. In addition to Peck and Mejia, the cast includes NYCB's Taylor Stanley, and Indiana Woodward, American Ballet Theatre’s Brooks Landegger, Cassandra Trenary and Devon Teuscher, Paris Opera Ballet's Paul Marque and Sae Eun Park of Paris Opera Ballet and the Royal Ballet’s William Bracewell and Marcelino Sambé.