Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Announces COMPLETE Schedule.

Ballet X marked its territory onstage at its new home with three premieres and, most important, its new permanent roster of eight dancers. Its co-artistic directors, Matthew Neenan and Christine Cox, didn’t miss this opportunity to display their company’s expansive artistic and technical mettle. Ballet X: Risk of Flight, Once Again, M.O.M.

It took guts for her to leave her company before she had a contract somewhere else, but eventually she found a home—and a promotion—in Dresden. Now, she’s about to be famous, as the star of the Starz network’s new ballet drama “Flesh and Bone.” (Check out our behind-the-scenes photo essay on page 32.).

Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor, pianist, educator, and humanitarian. Leonard Bernstein at 100 is a worldwide centennial celebration that begins on August 25, 2017, on the day of his 99th birthday, and runs through August 25, 2019.

Celebrated choreographer Matthew Neenan presents “Natasha,” an excerpt from his full-length ballet, “11:11.” Originally set on the Pennsylvania Ballet, “Natasha” is a beautiful quartet set to one of the six Rufus Wainwright songs used for the full ballet.

Jacob's Pillow opens its 87th season with premier Canadian contemporary ballet company Ballet BC in the Ted Shawn Theatre, June 19-23. Celebrating ten years under the leadership of Artistic.

BalletMet has provided artistic excellence in the field of dance to Central Ohio since 1974. Click on the tabs below to learn more about what happened at BalletMet during a specific season.

Thomas Neenan is Lecturer in Music History and Music Theory, a position he has held since 1991. Mr. Neenan holds degrees from California State University, Northridge (organ performance) and from UCLA (Baroque performance practices and choral conducting) where he was honored with an Outstanding Academic Achievement Award and was a prizewinner in the Atwater-Kent Performance Competition.

Three of the program’s five dances were choreographed by Matthew Neenan. He was one of the principal reasons for founding a “second” ballet troupe in Philadelphia. Neenan uses the dancer’s total body and often deploys it as a unit, as a whole. His choices of music range from a Franz Schubert quintet to folk melodies to dramatic film.

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Langabeer collaborated for over a year with BalletX Founder Matthew Neenan in the creation of “Sunset, o639”, an evening-length work created for BalletX and premiered in 2014. Her score and musical performance garnered rave reviews from The New York Times Dance Critic, Alastair Macaulay.

The real-life inspiration for this ballet is reflected in the specificity of the title, which refers to the inaugural trans-Pacific airmail flight. The ballet is a collaboration between American choreographer Matthew Neenan and New Zealand composer Rosie Langabeer, linking their two cultures through the concept of transcontinental aviation.

Brenda Dixon Gottschild is an American cultural historian, performer, choreographer, and anti-racist cultural worker. She has used her background as a dance performer and as a professor of dance to create works that bring racism, gender, and societal questions to the forefront of discussions.