New York City Ballet (NYCB) will current its 10th annual Fall Fashion Gala on Wednesday, September 28, at 7pm on the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.
A celebration of dance and vogue, this yr’s occasion will characteristic world premiere ballets by choreographers Kyle Abraham and Gianna Reisen, the first-ever reside efficiency of Justin Peck’s Solo, and the fourth motion and finale from the George Balanchine masterpiece Symphony in C.
Abraham’s new ballet will characteristic costumes by Giles Deacon who additionally designed the costumes for The Runaway, which Abraham choreographed for the 2018 Fall Fashion Gala. Dan Scully, who additionally collaborated with Abraham on The Runaway, will design the lighting.
Reisen’s new ballet, her third for NYCB, may have costumes designed by Alejandro Gómez Palomo that includes Swarovski crystals. The lighting for Reisen’s ballet will likely be designed by Mark Stanley, NYCB’s Resident Lighting Designer.
The music for the Abraham and Reisen premieres will likely be introduced at a later date.
The gala program will even embrace the reside efficiency premiere of Justin Peck’s Solo, which was created for NYCB’s 2021 Virtual Spring Gala movie directed by Sofia Coppola. The 2022 Fall Fashion Gala would be the first time that Solo, which is about to Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, will likely be carried out reside. For the event, the ballet will characteristic new costume design by Raf Simons, who beforehand collaborated with Peck on Glass Handel, the 2018 multi-media set up that includes countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. Solo will characteristic lighting design by Stanley, who additionally designed the lighting for the movie model of the ballet.
The gala night will even embrace the fourth motion and finale from George Balanchine’s Symphony in C, which was choreographed in 1947, to the music of Georges Bizet. In 2012, NYCB’s manufacturing of the ballet was re-costumed with new designs by Marc Happel, NYCB’s Director of Costumes; Symphony in C additionally options lighting by Stanley.
This yr’s occasion will honor Sarah Jessica Parker, a vice chair of the NYCB Board of Directors, who conceived the Fall Fashion Gala in 2012, the primary yr of which celebrated the legendary designer Valentino. Since then, the Fall Fashion Gala has raised greater than $24 million for NYCB.
A spotlight of the autumn season in New York City, over the previous 10 years, the occasion has additionally featured costumes designed by the late Virgil Abloh of Off-WhiteTM, Rosie Assoulin, Thom Browne, Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, Tsumori Chisato, Peter Copping for Oscar de la Renta, Esteban Cortázar, Giles Deacon, Alberta Ferretti, Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim of MONSE and Oscar de la Renta, Prabal Gurung, Carolina Herrera, Mary Katrantzou, Humberto Leon of Opening Ceremony and Kenzo, Hanako Maeda of ADEAM, Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida of Marques’Almeida, Zuhair Murad, Zac Posen, Gareth Pugh, Narciso Rodriguez, Christopher John Rogers, Jonathan Saunders, Anna Sui, Olivier Theyskens, Iris van Herpen, Dries Van Noten, and Jason Wu. All of the designs have been created in home on the NYCB Costume Shop in collaboration with the designers and NYCB’s Director of Costumes Marc Happel.
Joining Parker as Chairs of the 2022 Fall Fashion Gala are Honorary Chair Steven Kolb, CEO of the Council of Fashion Designers of America; and co-Chairs Georgina Bloomberg, Andy Cohen, Laverne Cox, Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy, Jill Kargman, Diane Kruger, Mazdack and Zanna Rassi, Deborah Roberts, Jordan Roth and Lizzie Tisch.
Benefit-priced tickets for the gala night, which embrace the 7pm efficiency, a pre-performance reception and black-tie supper ball following the efficiency, can be found by means of the NYCB Special Events Office at 212-870-5585 and at nycballet.com/fallgala. Tickets for the efficiency solely begin at $38 and will likely be out there starting August 8 at nycballet.com, by calling 212-496-0600, or on the David H. Koch Theater field workplace, situated at West 63rd Street and Columbus Avenue.
