Juilliard presents New Dances: Version 2023

Juilliard presents New Dances: Version 2023, the cornerstone of Juilliard Dance’s fall season, from December 6-10. The annual program options the world premieres of works by 4 preeminent choreographers: Lauren Lovette, Hope Boykin, Raja Feather Kelly and Omar Román De Jesús. Every has created authentic items for every undergraduate dance class set to music by residing composers together with Philip Glass (Diploma ’60, MS ’62, composition) and pupil Alberta Khoury (BM ’18, MM ’19, guitar), carried out reside by Juilliard music college students and alumni. New Dances: Version 2023 celebrates an amalgamation of up to date inventive voices in dance and music and offers college students with the distinctive alternative to work and collaborate straight with at the moment’s main artists.

“It’s all the time thrilling to see how the choreographers work with the scholars to deliver their concepts into fruition,” Juilliard Dance Dean and Director Alicia Graf Mack stated. “The range of our dancers’ expertise permits the choreographers to step into the house and actually faucet into their imaginations.”

This formidable program represents a spread of motion, kinds, and concepts. Choreographers embrace former New York Metropolis Ballet principal dancer and Paul Taylor resident choreographer Lovette; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater alum, educator and choreographer Boykin; Juilliard Arnhold Artistic Affiliate and founding father of the feath3r concept Kelly; and 2023 Dance Journal Harkness Promise Award winner and creative director of Boca Tuya, De Jesús. All have offered main new works with main firms and at efficiency venues throughout New York or acquired distinguished awards all through 2023.

The 4 new works additionally spotlight new and up to date music by composers working at the moment, together with a Juilliard pupil and an alum. Lovette’s Pangaea Calling (first-year class) options music by Juilliard guitar doctoral pupil Alberta Khoury. Boykin’s I Dare … You. (second-year class) is about to music by Terence Blanchard as a part of Lincoln Middle’s year-long, campus-wide celebration of the composer. Kelly set his MUD | LOTUS (third-year class) to “Fanfare for the Unimpressed” and “Ecstatic Science” by Missy Mazzoli coached by Arnhold Artistic Affiliate at Massive Nadia Sirota (BM ’04, MM ’06, viola; Academy ’08); and Omar Román De Jesús’ EROICA (fourth-year class) options Etudes for Solo Piano, E-book 2: Etude No. 15 and “Wichita Vortex Sutra” by Juilliard Alum Philip Glass. The total program celebrates interdisciplinary inventive change, exploration, and mentorship by bringing collectively Juilliard dancers and musicians with these distinguished choreographers and composers.

New Dances: Version 2023 may also supply Juilliard’s first relaxed efficiency with a particular presentation on December 8, at 11am. A relaxed efficiency is one which anyone can attend however that has been particularly designed for folks with autism or sensory, communication, or studying difficulties together with neurodivergent patrons in addition to households with young children. The primary two of the 4 world-premiere works — by choreographers Lovette and Boykin — might be offered in the course of the New Dances relaxed efficiency.