08/03/2024
Thanks to all who attended the BALLET UNDER THE STARS performances. It was a pleasure to present some of our repertory favorites!
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Photos by Sean Bemand
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Connecticut Ballet was founded in 1981 by choreographers Brett Raphael and Luk de Layress. Its official debut took place (under the company's former title, Ballet Today) at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. In her New York Times review, Anna Kisselgoff called it 'a very promising troupe.' The company made its Connecticut debut at the Stamford Center for the Arts, where it became a resident performing company in 1986. Striving for continuous artistic growth, Artistic Director Brett Raphael has made the commissioning of new works by today's choreographers a hallmark of the company's repertoire alongside stagings of the great story ballets. Now numbering 60+ works, the repertoire spans the gamut from masterworks by Bob Fosse to George Balanchine to commissioned works from Darrell Grand-Moultrie to Lila York.
The company has performed at the Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, New York's Riverside Dance Festival, Cape Cod Performing Arts Festival, Harbourfront Festival in Toronto, Grand Central Station in New York City, Goat Island Dance Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, and many other venues. The list of guest artists who have appeared with the company reads like an encyclopedia of dance luminaries: Fernando Bujones, Cynthia Gregory, Cecilia Kerche, Lynne Charles, Katherine Healy, Johan Renvall, Yoko Ichino, Susan Jaffe, Ross Stretton, Gennadi Saveliev, Les Ballets Trockadero, Pilobolus, Limon Dance Company, Larisa Lezhnina, Yyacheslav Samadourov, Stephanie Saland, Ask la Cour, Lauren Lovette, Veronika Part, David Hallberg, Julie Kent, Jose Manuel Carreno, Amar Ramasar, Vitor Luiz, Maia Wilkins, Gillian Murphy, Carmen de Lavallade, Dudley Williams, Serge Lavoie, Ashley Bouder, Charles Askegard, and more.
In 2005, the company established a home in the state's capital, performing at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts. In 2008, the company initiated an annual Summer Dance Caravan, providing free performances across the state and inviting emerging companies and choreographers to open for them on tour. Throughout its history, the organization has presented educational assembly programs, conducted residencies and outreach classes in public schools, community centers, and residential treatment centers. It is estimated that over 300,000 students have attended such performances since 1991. With the support of The Tow Foundation, the organization began offering programming at the state's five juvenile detention centers in 2004, resulting in a five-year contract with the Judicial Branch's Court Support Services Division.
