2021/2022 Season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center

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B ELOV ED FAVO R I T ES , CO M PA N Y D EB U TS A N D M U CH-A N T I CI PAT ED PR EM I ER ES CO M PR IS E A N I NS PI R I N G S E A SO N O F DA N CE PERFORMANCES. THE JOY OF DA N CE A N D DA N CI N G IS BACK AT T H E M US I C CEN T ER !

The Music Center and its TMC Arts programming team are thrilled to reconnect with you and invite you to experience the 19th season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center! We will be back on our beautiful indoor stages in Spring 2022 with some of the world’s most electrifying dance companies and exciting dance experiences.

Bernstein Dances © Photo by Kiran West. Cover: LaTasha Barnes by Em Watson.

H A M B U RG BA L L E T J O H N N EU M EI ER VENUE The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion DATES Friday, March 11, 2022 @ 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 13, 2022 @ 2:00 p.m.

Saturday, March 19, 2022 @ 7:30 p.m.

LIVE ORCHESTRA PROGRAM Bernstein Dances

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Director and chief choreographer John Neumeier has developed Hamburg Ballet into one of the world’s most extraordinary dance companies. Neumeier has continually focused on the preservation of ballet tradition, while giving his works a modern dramatic framework, ultimately creating an unmistakable choreographic language. Hamburg Ballet makes its company debut performance at The Music Center with Bernstein Dances, based on the music and spirit of the multi-talented composer Leonard Bernstein. Rather than a direct telling of Bernstein’s life, this work is a dance mosaic inspired by his personal and professional journeys and is unified by his timeless and beloved music.

A LV I N A I L E Y® A M ER I C A N DA N CE T H E AT ER VENUE The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion DATES Wednesday, April 6, 2022 @ 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 7, 2022 @ 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 8, 2022 @ 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 9, 2022 @ 2:00 p.m.

Saturday, April 9, 2022 @ 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 10, 2022 @ 2:00 p.m.

RECORDED MUSIC PROGRAM Repertory

Since its now-fabled performance in March 1958 at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has grown from a small group of African American dancers, to a revolutionary company that transcends barriers and celebrates the African American cultural experience. In 2008, a U.S. Congressional resolution designated the company as “a vital American cultural ambassador to the world.”

Under the decade-long leadership of its visionary artistic director Robert Battle, the company continues to honor the monumental legacy of its founder, while expanding the Ailey repertory and developing the next generation of choreographers. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will perform different programs of mixed repertory, which all conclude with its enduring classic Revelations, beloved by generations of fans. Using African American spirituals, song-sermons, gospel songs and holy blues, Revelations fervently explores the places of deepest grief and holiest joy in the soul. Seeing Revelations for the first time or the hundredth is a transcendent experience.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Photo by Dario Calmese.

SW ! N G O U T VENUE The Music Center’s Ahmanson Theatre & Jerry Moss Plaza DATES Friday, June 24, 2022 @ 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 25, 2022 @ 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, June 26, 2022 @ 2:00 p.m.

LIVE BIG BAND

Acclaimed choreographer Caleb Teicher brings the best of the Swing dance world to the concert stage! With live music by the Eyal Vilner Big Band, the cast of Lindy Hop champions bring the joy, fire and fight of competitive and social swing dance to prove that there’s no better time in history to SW!NG OUT! New choreography and direction by Caleb Teicher; a brain trust of collaborators Evita Arce, LaTasha Barnes, Nathan Bugh, Macy Sullivan, and Eyal Vilner; stunning improvisation by Swing dance champions; and an outdoor post-show dance jam on Jerry Moss Plaza offer audiences a high-energy, magical experience like no other.

LaTasha LaTasha Barnes Barnes and and Caleb Caleb Teicher Teicher

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PACI FI C N O R T H W ES T BA L L E T VENUE The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion DATES Friday, July 15, 2022 @ 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 16, 2022 @ 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, July 17, 2022 @ 2:00 p.m.

LIVE ORCHESTRA PROGRAM Little mortal jump Plot Point Waiting at the Station

Under the direction of Peter Boal, Pacific Northwest Ballet is one of the largest and most highly regarded ballet companies and ballet schools.

Boundary-bending is the theme for this trio of daring and stunning performances. Little mortal jump, by resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo, is a cohesive blend of different styles and genres that fuses the technicality of movement, the theatricality of the stage and the dark humor inherent in relationships.

Crystal Pite’s Plot Point, set to Bernard Herrmann’s film score from Psycho, is a suspenseful dance-theater work featuring parallel casts whose interplay gives life to Pite’s experiment in rendering a screenplay in wordless movement. Twyla Tharp’s Waiting at the Station, set to a collection of compositions by R&B artist Allen Toussaint, takes place in 1940s New Orleans and tells the story of a man attempting to connect with his son and pass on his steps before he must surrender to three gilded Fates.

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer James Moore with company dancers in Twyla Tharp’s Waiting at the Station. Photo © Angela Sterling.

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TICKET BUYER ASSURANCE PROGRAM THROUGH 2022 The Music Center and its TMC Arts programming team value our dance patrons, and we want to help you plan for the future with assurance that your purchases are 100% protected. Our Ticket Buyer Assurance Program is available for all dance engagements through 2022, and allows you to purchase advance tickets with the confidence of knowing that we have you covered in the event of COVID-related changes.

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