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Programming: NYCB was proud to present 22 weeks of programming to approximately 313,000 audience members during our 2022-23 season. Season highlights included SIX new works by a diverse group of choreographers. Gianna reisen and KYLE abraham each created their third work for the company, both of which premiered during our 2022 fall fashion GALA. Reisen's work, titled play time, was SET to a commissioned score by solange knowles and featured 10 dancers. Abraham's new work, titled love letter (on shuffle), featured 16 dancers and was SET to music by james blake. During the winter 2023 season, NYCB premiered new works by resident choreographer justin PECK, and keerati jinakunwiphat, who is the first asian american female choreographer to be commissioned by NYCB. PECK created a full evening work, titled copland dance episodes, which featured the music of 20th century american composer aaron copland and SET designs by renowned choctaw-cherokee visual artist jeffrey gibson. The work featured 18 dancers. Jinakunwiphat created a new work titled fortuitous ASH, which featured nine dancers and was SET to music by award-winning chinese american composer DU YUN, who is the first asian american female composer to have music featured in our repertory. The spring 2023 season featured new works by alysa pires, who created her first mainstage work for NYCB, and christopher wheeldon. Pires' new work, titled standard deviation, featured 15 dancers and a new commissioned score by composer JACK frerer, and built UPON a work she and frerer collaborated on for the new YORK choreographic institute. Wheeldon's new work, his 21st ballet for NYCB was titled from you within me and featured 12 dancers SET to arnold schoenberg's verklrte nacht and SET designs by painter and visual artist KYLE manning. The 2022-23 season also presented masterpieces from the company's repertory in mixed repertory programs, including george balanchine's AGON, concerto barocco, donizetti variations, LA source, square dance, symphony in c, and walpurgisnacht ballet; justin PECK's everywhere we GO, partita, and SOLO; alexei ratmansky's concerto DSCH, namouna: a grand divertissement, and voices; jerome robbins' brandenburg, fancy free, rondo, and the CAGE; and christopher wheeldon's liturgy. We also presented our annual run of george balanchine's the nutcracker and the full-length production of peter martins' the sleeping beauty. Touring: the company held its annual residency at the saratoga performing arts center from JULY 12-16, 2022. From march 20-26, 2023 members of the company performed in madrid, spain, and from JUNE 5-11, 2023 the company had its annual residency at the JOHN f. Kennedy center for the performing arts. Education: new YORK city ballet (NYCB) implemented a robust suite of education and access programs for people of ALL abilities for the 2022-2023 season. These programs are part of NYCB's commitment to offer audiences of ALL AGES and abilities the opportunity to engage with our artists and to experience the art form of ballet. Each year, NYCB conducts three in-school residency programs in new YORK city public schools (ballet tales, the nutcracker project, project ballet) that help students strengthen their own artistic voices and explore how ballet is an accessible artform relevant to their daily lives. Student matinees are a key component of ALL residency programs, bringing NYCB's choreography and music to life and giving students an experience of attending a performance at the company's remarkable theater. Student matinees returned to our stage in 2022-23 after a two-year hiatus caused by the pandemic, and we were thrilled that we were ABLE to reinstate this exciting element of our school residency programs. Overall, we served 4,389 students and 239 teachers across 184 classrooms in 34 schools in ALL five boroughs of new YORK city. In addition, 59% of schools we served were title i, and 60% of students served received free or reduced-cost lunch. NYCB access programs included a variety of free, highly customized programming for children, teens, and adults with physical and cognitive disabilities, including workshops LED by NYCB dancers and teaching artists, artist visits to hospitals and schools, and attendance at performances at our theater. NYCB developed its first access program in 2014 in conjunction with the weinberg family cerebral palsy center at columbia university and has since established partnerships with 15+ organizations. At the beginning of the season our partners expressed great interest in in-person workshops, and by november 2022 we had already reached registration capacity for the entire 2022-23 calendar of workshops, so we added three workshops to accommodate the demand in new YORK city, upstate new YORK, and connecticut. In addition, we established a new partnership with the hospital for special surgery, which specializes in orthopedic surgery and the treatment of rheumatologic conditions. Over ALL, we conducted 35 individual access program events and two multi-workshop access program residencies, which served 2,912 people with disabilities and their families. Public programs provide opportunities for people of ALL AGES to interact with members of the company and learn more about the legacy and innovation of NYCB. In 2022-23 we served 9,614 people with public programming. This season, we presented four family saturdays programs (one-hour onstage presentations that introduce children and their families to NYCB and its repertory), adding one during our run of george balanchine's the nutcracker, and two inside NYCB programs (one-hour onstage presentations intended for adult audiences, which explore the history and inner workings of NYCB through performance, discussion, and demonstration). NYCB also conducted public workshops (children's workshops, ballet essentials, in motion workshops) for children and adults in-person, and also offered one virtual ballet essentials each in the fall, winter, and spring. Then two ballet essentials workshop weekends, a four-day ballet intensive designed for adults with beginner to advanced ballet experience were held and provided a glimpse of what it is like to train with NYCB. Finally, NYCB presented an in-person lecture demonstration and an access workshop during our touring performances at the saratoga performing arts center in JULY 2022.
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