5 of NYC’s most iconic dance firms — Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York Metropolis Ballet and Dance Theatre of Harlem — return for the third annual BAAND Collectively Dance Pageant, sharing the highlight and an outside stage as part of Lincoln Middle’s second annual Summer time for the Metropolis.

From July 25-29, audiences shall be handled to thrilling evenings of programming curated collaboratively by the creative administrators of the businesses, that includes works which are quintessential of every firm’s fashion and brilliance, in addition to the World Premiere of Pas de O’Farill by Pedro Ruiz, a brand new duet that includes dancers from Ballet Hispánico and New York Metropolis Ballet, commissioned by Lincoln Middle for the Performing Arts. All performances are free.

Every afternoon, one of many firms will convey its distinctive educating fashion to campus with a day by day Training Workshop. The collection will supply quite a lot of educating types and dance kinds, acceptable for all ages and talents.

The Pageant is made attainable by CHANEL, representing the third 12 months of the Home’s help of the BAAND Collectively Dance Pageant. This partnership displays CHANEL’s long-standing patronage throughout the world of dance, which has continued for over a century.

A press release from the creative administrators of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Inventive Director Robert Battle), American Ballet Theatre (Inventive Director Susan Jaffe), Ballet Hispánico (Inventive Director and CEO Eduardo Vilaro), Dance Theatre of Harlem (Inventive Director Robert Garland) and New York Metropolis Ballet (Inventive Director Jonathan Stafford, Affiliate Inventive Director Wendy Whelan) reads: 

“The BAAND Collectively Dance Pageant is a testomony to the vibrancy and variety of the New York Metropolis dance neighborhood. We’re thrilled to be returning with a spectacular program that options the town’s most internationally revered repertory firms. This 12 months’s program highlights the modern visions which have made New York Metropolis our nation’s dance capital.”