STREAMING EVENT
EXPERIENCE BALLETCOLLECTIVE ONLINE NOVEMBER 5-20
Following last year’s sold-out Fall Season, BalletCollective returns to the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine with three world premiere ballets. Each one offers a distinct exploration of the season’s theme: Opposites Attract.
Opposites Attract began as a description of how we create our genre-expanding work: brilliant artists from different forms, brought into the same room to work toward a shared goal. It grew into an exploration of the competing impulses inside a single mind.
The evening begins along a candlelit pathway into one of New York's most iconic spaces. Inside, eleven astonishing dancers, including artists from New York City Ballet, perform close enough to reach, with live contemporary classical and electronic music by Julia Kent, Phong Tran and ~Nois Quartet.
Three nights only. November 3–5
PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
WORLD PREMIERE
Choreography: Noelle Kayser
2026 Commission for Developing Choreographers
Music: Julia Kent, performed live by the composer
Source Art: original scent by Heather Sielaff
Costume design: Amanda Gladu
WORLD PREMIERE
Choreography: Shane Urton
2026 Commission for Developing Choreographers
Music: Paul Novak
Source Art: original poetry by M. Soledad Caballero
Costume design: Amanda Gladu
WORLD PREMIERE
Choreography: Troy Schumacher
Music: Phong Tran, performed live by NOIS
Source Art: original illustrations by Matt Rota
Lighting by Ben Rawson
Dancers: Georgia Greene, Thomas Hogan, Mizuho Kappa, Keenan Kiefer*, Brooke Lutz, Arayah Lyte, Maya Milić*, Alexander Perone*, Davide Riccardo*, Alexsander Swader, Ella Titus
*Denotes a dancer from New York City Ballet
BALLETCOLLECTIVE at 15
Fifteen years ago this fall, a young organization made its New York debut. It has since become a leader in the field, unafraid to be bold, to take a chance, and, as an early New York Times review put it, to "ask central questions about the genre of ballet."
At BalletCollective, ballet is a collaborative art form, not a style. Since our founding we have worked with more than 350 artists, authors, choreographers, composers, musicians, designers, and dancers through The BalletCollective Process, our original method for making forward-thinking, dance-based work.
BalletCollective has been presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center, Pioneer Works, and Trinity Church Wall Street, and covered in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Dance Magazine, Pointe, Cosmopolitan, T Magazine, and CR Fashion Book.