American Ballet Theatre Gala With Aoki Lee Simmons, Indre Rockefeller, Prince Achileas-Andreas And Many Others

May 16, 2024

The American Ballet Theatre (ABT) hosted its Spring Gala: Ballet Brilliance tonight.

This one-night-only program featured a curated selection of excerpts from ABT’s upcoming 2024 Summer season, including a preview of Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works ahead of the New York Premiere in June 2024.

The dancers who performed included Joo Won Ahn, Aran Bell, Isabella Boylston, Skylar Brandt, Herman Cornejo, Thomas Forster, Catherine Hurlin, Gillian Murphy, Calvin Royal III, Christine Shevchenko, Cory Stearns, Devon Teuscher, Cassandra Trenary, James Whiteside, Chloe Misseldine, and Jake Roxander.

Gala guests who gathered for the riveting performance, black-tie dinner and dancing at Cipriani 42nd Street included Katie Holmes, Anh Duong, Brent Neale, Carly Cushnie, Crystal Minkoff, Cynthia Rowley, Elizabeth Segerstrom, Isabella Massenet & Prince Achileas-Andreas, Ivy Getty, LaQuan Smith, Lizzie Asher, Luann de Lesseps, Melanie Hamrick, Sai De Silva, Sunny Hostin, Chloe Flower, ABT Artistic Director and Interim Executive Director, Susan Jaffe among others.

The event honored Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi for her incomparable commitment to artistic excellence and innovation in film and her fervent advocacy of classical ballet.

Photo credit: 1) Aoki Lee Simmons. 2) Anh Duong, Malcolm Carfrae. 3) Chloe Misseldine, Elizabeth Segerstrom, Vsevolod Maievskyi. 4) Elizabeth Segerstrom, Crystal Kung Minkoff. 5) Elizabeth Segerstrom, Crystal Kung Minkoff. 6) Christine Shevchenko, Isabella Boylston, Devon Teuscher, Chloe Misseldine. 7) Elizabeth Segerstrom, Larissa Saveliev, Clinton Luckett, Desmond Richardson. 8) Indre Rockefeller, Elizabeth Chai Vaserhelyi, guest, guest. 8) Sharareh Siadat. 9) Isabella Massanet, Prince Achileas-Andreas.

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