ONE WORLD PREMIERE INSPIRED BY A CUSTOM TABLETOP ROLE-PLAYING GAME. A SECOND BASED ON A SERIES OF EERILY BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHS OF PIGMENTLESS FLOWERS.

BalletCollective’s 2023 season explores what happens when collaborating arts work together to investigate the outsize role chance has in life and art—and how much things out of our control can directly influence the creative process, even when meticulously crafted and planned.

Founded in 2010 by New York City Ballet Soloist Troy Schumacher, arts nonprofit BalletCollective asks not what ballet is, but what it can be—partnering with both emerging and established art makers and thought leaders in a deeply collaborative, original process to make forward-thinking ballet-based works presented in inspired settings.

BalletCollective exclusively performs original work and has partnered with a roster of over 260 acclaimed artists, architects, authors, choreographers, composers, musicians, designers, and dancers to date.

THE ARTISTS

CHOREOGRAPHY

Omar Román De Jesús
Princess Grace Award Winner

Troy Schumacher
”Visionary Artist” - T Mag

MUSIC

ROBERT HONSTEIN
EMMY Nominated Composer

PHONG TRAN
Composer, Electronicist

SOURCE ART

SAMANTHA LEIGH
ENNIE Nominated tabletop role playing game designer

KATHRIN LINKERSDORFF
Visual Artist

THE PERFORMERS

DANCED BY*:

Dominika Afanasenkov
Devin Alberda
David Gabriel
Ruby Lister
Mary Thomas MacKinnon
Kennedy Targosz
Sebastián Villarini-Vélez

*New York City Ballet

MUSIC PERFORMED BY:

Phong Tran
Bergamot Quartet with special guests. 

Additional artists to be announced.