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“STARS UNDER THE STARS”
EVENING BENEFITS
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
Special
Performance By ABT Artists Featured
Los Angeles, CA – American Ballet Theatre (ABT) presented
its annual Stars Under The Stars: An Evening in Los
Angeles, at the Beverly Hills home of Jeanne and Anthony
Pritzker. The event marked the beginning of ABT's
celebration of its 75th anniversary Avery & Andy Barth, Dr.
Richard Merkin and Laura & Jamie Rosenwald served as
co-chairs for the evening, along with along with
Vice-Chairs Bob Barth & Nicole Frank and Florence Sloan;
Benefit Committee members John Bartlett, Ambassador Frank &
Kathy Baxter and LeeAnn & Ron Havner.
Highlighting the evening was
a one-night-only special performance by the world-renowned
artists of American Ballet Theatre, including Principal
Dancers Veronika Part, Hee Seo and Cory Stearns; Soloists
Alexandre Hammoudi, Christine Shevchenko and Devon Teuscher
and Corps de Ballet members Blaine Hoven, Luciana Paris and
Arron Scott, dancing selections from the Company’s unrivaled
repertoire including “Seven Sonatas,” “Cinderella,” “Swan
Lake” and “Toccare.”
This marked the third
consecutive year the Pritzkers have hosted the gala
special event, with the more than $250,000 raised benefiting
ABT. Stars Under The Stars raises funds to support
the Company’s extensive domestic and international touring,
the creation of significant new works, and award-winning
education and outreach programs, which are also held in
California.
Rachel Moore, ABT CEO,
welcomed guests adding that “Tonight’s event is the first of
many celebrations we will hold throughout 2014 and 2015 to
mark ABT’s establishment in 1940 and its 75years of artistic
excellence. We are so pleased to be starting this milestone
achievement with you.”
Kevin McKenzie, ABT Artistic
Director took the stage to introduce the performances,
sharing Moore’s gratitude for the warm Los Angeles welcome
and the pride in bringing “the best in dance to America and
the best in American dance to the world.”
Among those in attendance:
Jane Kaczmarek, Cameron Silver, “The Insider” host Louis
Aguirre, Sutton Stracke, Karyn Lovegrove, Florence Sloan,
Sarah Arison, Christina Lyon, Barbara Guggenheim, Larry
Boland (President of Piaget North America), Wendy Goldberg,
Irena Medavoy, and Robin & Elliott Broidy.
Universally recognized as
one of the world’s preeminent cultural organizations,
American Ballet Theatre is proud to have been designated by
both houses of the United States Congress as “America’s
National Ballet Company.” For 75 years, ABT has upheld the
enduring vision of excellence upon which the Company was
founded in 1940. Few dance companies can equal the quality
of ABT’s productions, the range of its repertory, or the
extent of its education programming.
ABT has been home to many of
ballet’s legendary stars – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia
Makarova, Carla Fracci, Cynthia Gregory, Alicia Alonso, and
Fernando Bujones – and is renowned for its lavish
productions of full-length ballets including Swan Lake,
Giselle, La Bayadère, and Romeo and Juliet. With
a Company of 90 of the world’s most celebrated dancers,
including Gillian Murphy, Julie Kent, Diana Vishneva, Herman
Cornejo, Marcelo Gomes, and David Hallberg, ABT performs for
audiences of more than 400,000 each year in New York City,
Los Angeles, across the country, and around the world.
For more information about
American Ballet Theatre, please visit
www.abt.org
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