Forward of the corporate’s last efficiency of the 2022-23 season, Nashville Ballet’s incoming Inventive Director, Nick Mullikin, has introduced a blockbuster 2023-24 season. A singular mix of boundary-breaking modern productions and beloved classical favorites, the 2023-24 season will characteristic 2018 Tony Award winner Justin Peck’s 12 months of the Rabbit, world premieres by Mullikin, Jermaine Spivey, Mollie Sansone and Yusha-Marie Sorzano, the return of the corporate’s sold-out Reside in Studio A program, and Inventive Director Emeritus Paul Vasterling’s fan favourite love story, Romeo and Juliet.

“This season highlights the place we got here from, the place we’re and the place we’re going,” shared Mullikin. “The muse of this work has been constructed by those who got here earlier than me, and we’re going to proceed to maneuver ahead with the concepts of labor that make us probably the most distinctive ballet corporations within the nation. Audiences can have the prospect to see issues that they will simply acknowledge, but in addition have the prospect to see what the evolution of ballet appears like. We’re sustaining who we’re by creating eight world premieres, and fostering creativity by giving our personal artists a spot to create.”

A Tony Award winner and acclaimed choreographer of Steven Spielberg’s 2021 West Aspect Story, Justin Peck might be making his Nashville Ballet debut together with his 12 months of the Rabbit. His second work as Resident Choreographer of New York Metropolis Ballet, 12 months of the Rabbit is a collaboration with American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens and contains a music cycle based mostly on the favored Chinese language zodiac. 12 months of the Rabbit blends the athleticism of classical ballet with boundary-breaking motion for a efficiency that’s each visually gorgeous and physiologically intriguing. Peck’s piece might be joined by Vasterling’s Firebird, set to Stravinsky’s iconic, full-length rating, and Jiří Kylián’s Un Ballo.

Along with modern masterpieces, Nashville Ballet might be presenting beloved classical tales, together with Vasterling’s Emmy Award-winning Nashville’s Nutcracker and Romeo and Juliet. Different highlights embrace the return of the corporate’s twice sold-out Reside in Studio A program, which can embrace Mullikin’s first world premiere as Inventive Director, and its annual Perspective manufacturing in February 2024, that includes world premieres by multi-award winner Jermaine Spivey, Resident Choreographer Mollie Sansone, and former Alvin Ailey dancer Yusha-Marie Sorzano.