Muses no more
The female-led program, ChoreograpHER, celebrates innovative voices across the art world with five new works. ChoreograpHERs will create original works that express their voices and visions as female artmakers.
New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Tiler Peck will create her first world premiere for the Company. She recently received accolades for her work at Vail Dance Festival and directed movement for the film John Wick 3: Parabellum.
Claudia Schreier will also create her first work for Boston Ballet. Praised for her distinctive choreographic voice, which fuses neoclassical technique with a contemporary vocabulary, she has choreographed over 30 ballets and has been commissioned by companies and organizations including Dance Theatre of Harlem, Vail Dance Festival, American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, Juilliard Opera, New York Choreographic Institute, and Joffrey Winning Works.
Visual artist Shantell Martin—internationally-acclaimed for her landscape of lines and existential questions—will make her choreographic debut.
Boston Ballet Principal Dancer and choreographer Lia Cirio will create her first main stage world premiere for Boston audiences. She made her choreographic debut with Sta(i)r(e)s during BB@home: ChoreograpHER in November 2018 and has since created two additional works in 2019 for BB@home and Boston Ballet School’s Next Generation performance.
Melissa Toogood, an award-winning dancer and choreographer, will create a world premiere. She is both a dancer and rehearsal director for Pam Tanowitz Dance. She was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has taught Cunningham Technique internationally since 2007.
This program is part of Boston Ballet’s ChoreograpHER Initiative, a multi-year commitment in support of emerging female choreographers.
Note: This program has been optimized for the health of patrons and performers, and will be presented in accordance with appropriate state and CDC guidelines.
With Appreciation
The 2020-2021 performances of ChoreograpHER have been made possible by generous gifts from a Commissioners Circle including the Stephanie L. Brown Foundation, Brynja Vifilsdottir and Hannes Smarason, and an anonymous donor.
The 2020-2021 performances of Tiler Peck’s ChoregrapHER world premiere have been made possible by a generous gift from Ronald G. Casty and family.
The 2020-2021 performances of Claudia Schreier’s ChoregrapHER world premiere are generously supported by the Krupp Endowment for Contemporary Dance.
The ChoreograpHER Initiative has been made possible by Lead Sponsors Amy and David Abrams, Marie and Mark Schwartz, and Elizabeth Yntema, along with a generous grant from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.
The Company gratefully acknowledges the outstanding support of Barbara and Amos Hostetter in our commitment to amplifying diverse artistic voices.