Kaatsbaan Cultural Park presents American Ballet Theatre Studio Company
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Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
Experience the next generation of ballet stars with American Ballet Theatre Studio Company on Saturday, May 31, 2025 at 7pm and Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 2pm at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s intimate Black Box Theater. ABT Studio Company presents a dynamic program featuring both classical and contemporary works. The company’s spring 2025 repertoire includes selections from the following: pieces by renowned choreographers Jerome Robbins, Gerald Arpino, Yannick Lebrun, and ABT Principal Dancer James Whiteside; original commissions by Houston Thomas and ABT dancers Madison Brown and Brady Farrar; and iconic works such as George Balanchine’s Tarantella and the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake, staged by Kaatsbaan’s co-founder, Artistic Advisor, and Board Chair, Kevin McKenzie. Seize the chance to see these exceptional, talented young dancers. Tickets are $45 for general admission, $25 for students with ID, and can be purchased HERE.
The specific program for each performance will be announced at a later date.
ABT Studio Company
Artistic Director: Sascha Radetsky
Managing Director: Claire Florian
Rehearsal Director: Yan Chen
ABT Studio Company Dancers 2024–2025 Season: Max Barker, Maximilian Catazaro, YeonSeo Choi, Elijah Geolina, Ptolemy Gidney, Daniel Guzmán, Paloma Livellara, Kayla Mak, Aaron Marquez, Viktoria Papakalodouka, Sooha Park, and Natalie Steele
ABT Studio Company, now in its 30th anniversary year, develops the next generation of ballet dancers, choreographers, and audiences. Led by ABT Studio Company Artistic Director Sascha Radetsky, its central mission is to prepare its exceptionally promising dancers (currently ages 17-22) for careers in American Ballet Theatre or other leading ballet companies worldwide. Nearly eighty-five percent of current American Ballet Theatre dancers are alumni of ABT Studio Company, including sixteen Principal Dancers and eight Soloists. The highly mobile ABT Studio Company serves as an ambassador for American Ballet Theatre by touring to venues large and small. In recent years, ABT Studio Company has performed in such international destinations as the United Kingdom, Greece, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Mexico and at a wide variety of US performing arts centers, universities, festivals, and galas. ABT Studio Company dancers perform favorite excerpts from the classical and neoclassical canons alongside inventive contemporary pieces, commissioning today’s brightest choreographers to create new ballets on the dancers each season. Performances feature a wide variety of styles, offering something for everyone to enjoy – from ballet newcomers to lifelong fans.
"ABT Studio Company plays out charmingly as a fresh and fleet display of young dancers...accomplished classicists and comradely artists." — The Wall Street Journal
“Everyone creates a stage world of chivalry, etiquette, good humor.” — The New York Times
About Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
The mission of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park is to provide an extraordinary environment for cultural innovation and excellence by providing artists at any stage of their careers with creative residencies at state-of-the-art facilities, and presenting audiences and communities with annual outdoor festivals, educational programs, and seasonal events. As both an incubator for creativity and presenter for world-class artists in dance, theater, music, film, spoken and written word, and culinary and visual arts, Kaatsbaan provides artists with state-of-the-art dance studios, accommodations, an indoor theater, and outdoor stages. Sited on 153 Hudson River-adjacent acres, Kaatsbaan is free of urban facilities’ space and time constraints, allowing for exciting levels of artistic exploration, creative action, and achievement — just two hours north of New York City.
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park is committed to the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts as we aim to present, promote, and embrace programming that accurately reflects our society. We encourage a broadly diverse group of individuals to participate in our programs and join our Board and Staff, and insist on being inclusive of all peoples regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socio-economic background, or physical or mental ability.
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