Bold meets accessible.
Ballet meets its future.
About this Event
This is for the Tuesday, November 3rd performance, for Wednesday, November 4th, click here. For our Gala on Thursday, November 5, .
Following last year’s sold-out Fall Season, BalletCollective returns to the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine with three world premiere ballets. Each one offers a distinct exploration of the 2026 15th Anniversary season theme: Opposites Attract.
Opposites Attract began as a description of how we create our genre expanding work: brilliant artists from different forms, brought into the same room to work toward a shared goal. It grew into an exploration of the competing impulses inside a single mind.
The evening begins along a candlelit pathway that leads into one of NYC’s most iconic spaces. Inside, encounter live music and discover eleven of the world’s best dancers performing so close that they are almost within your reach.
Performance Program:
WORLD PREMIERE
Choreography: Noelle Kayser
2026 Commission for Developing Choreographers
Music: Julia Kent, performed live by the composer;
Source Art: original scent by Heather Sielaff;
Costume design: Amanda Gladu
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WORLD PREMIERE
Choreography: Shane Urton
2026 Commission for Developing Choreographers
Music: Paul Novak
Source Art: original poetry by M. Soledad Caballero
Costume design: by Amanda Gladu
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WORLD PREMIERE
Choreography: Troy Schumacher
Music: Phong Tran, performed live by NOIS
Source Art: original illustrations by Matt Rota
Lighting by Ben Rawson
Dancers: Georgia Greene, Thomas Hogan, Mizuho Kappa, Keenan Kiefer*, Brooke Lutz, Arayah Lyte, Maya Milić*, Alexander Perone*, Davide Riccardo*, Alexsander Swader, Ella Titus
*Denotes a dancer from New York City Ballet
Event venue & nearby stays
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, United States
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