The American Ballet Theatre honored artistic director Kevin McKenzie’s retirement at the June Gala. Step inside the night:
premiered at Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet in December of 1869, it didn’t appear at the American Ballet Theatre until June of 1995, over a century later. In that iteration, Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky’s original choreography was staged by Susan Jones and Kevin McKenzie, and since then, the classic piece—a balletic interpretation of Miguel de Cervantes’s novel—has been a celebrated component of the company’s repertoire, dipping in and out of the programming year after year.
McKenzie’s departure marks one of several recent changes in leadership at ABT, what with Janet Rollé succeeding Kara Medoff Barnett as CEO and executive director earlier this year. Filling McKenzie’s rather large ballet slippers is Susan Jaffe. At last night’s ABT June Gala, he bid farewell to the company and its members with swift graciousness.
After the performance, it was time for a gala dinner. Select members of the audience, which included Anna Chlumsky, Carly Cushnie, Olivia Palermo, B Michael, Lili Buffett, and more crossed over from the Metropolitan Opera House to the David H. Koch Theatre for a dreamy black-tie dinner within the atrium. The night then gave way to more dancing, and though the ballet dancers themselves weren’t present , the guests did their best to do them justice on the dancefloor.
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