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Celebrating the Life and Work of Ilona CopenHonoring Jean–Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride

Tuesday, March 22, 2011, at 7:30pm

Honorary Chair, Robert Battle

Ave MAriAJosé Manuel Carreño | NYIBC Alumnus 1987

American Ballet TheatreMusic | Franz Schubert

Choreography | Igal Perry

MeditAtionAna Luiza Luizi and Junio Teixeira | NYIBC Alumnus 2005

New Jersey BalletMusic | Jules Massenet

Choreography | Vladimir Salimbaev

the dying SwAnVictoria Jaiani | NYIBC Alumna 2003

The Joffrey BalletMusic | Camille Saint–Saëns

Choreography | Mikhail Fokine

diAnA And ActeonDaVon Doane and Flavia Garcia

Dance Theatre of Harlem EnsembleMusic | Cesare Pugni

Choreography | Agrippina Vaganova

SpAniSh dAnce | An iMpreSSion of flAMenco dAnce 1948Roxane D’Orléans Juste | NYIBC Coach

Limón Dance CompanyMusic | Genevieve Pitot

Choreography | Daniel Nagrin © Daniel Nagrin Theatre, Film and Dance Foundation

tSchAikovSky pAS de deuxAlessandra Ball and Addul Manzano

North Carolina Dance TheatreMusic | Piotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky

Choreography | George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust

A Song for you | froM love SongSMatthew Rushing

Alvin Ailey American Dance TheaterMusic | Leon Russell

Choreography | Alvin Ailey

Announcer | Lynne MacLaren

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The Ilona Copen Award is an annual, honorary award, celebrating the significant contribution to the ballet field by an individual, company or institution who or which provides young ballet dancers with: the finest educational, mentoring and cultural experiences; inspiration and encouragement to advance their careers to their fullest potential, raising their artistry, and stimulating their growth as individual human beings.

The Award honors a recipient who or which works to further ballet as an art form by: discovering, nurturing and developing un-derexposed dance/ballet talent; promoting international under-standing and goodwill through collaborative efforts across different

artistic disciplines; upholding the traditions and history of this classical art form; and securing its future through fostering the advancement of ballet.

The recipients of the Ilona Copen Award are elected through a nomination process by the Artistic Board of NYIBC.The award will be presented for the first time in 2011.

This award is made possible in part by a generous donation from Mrs. Judith Frost.

Patricia McBride began her ballet training in her hometown of Teaneck, NJ, before receiving a scholar-ship to the School of American Ballet. Within a year of joining the company, she danced a solo in The Figure in the Carpet,

created for her by Balanchine. McBride attained the rank of soloist in 1960 and by 1961, at age 18, she became the youngest principal dancer in NYCB. She spent 3 decades with the company, and created leading roles in many memorable ballets, including Harlequinade, Tarantella, the “Rubies” section of Jewels, Brahms–Schoenberg

Quartet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Coppelia, Union Jack, Who Cares?, and Vienna Waltzes. Jerome Robbins choreo-graphed principal roles for her in his In the Night, The Goldberg Variations, Dybbuk, Opus 19 and The Four Seasons. Her years of performing un-der Balanchine’s direction have gained her the expertise necessary to restage many of his master works. McBride has been associate artistic director of NCDT since 1996 and also serves as a master teacher at NC Dance Theatre School of Dance and Chau-tauqua Ballet’s School of Dance. She is married to Jean–Pierre Bonnefoux and they have two children.

Jean–Pierre Bonnefoux was born in France and began his dance training at the age of 10 at the School of the Paris Opera Ballet. At age 14, he joined the company, and by age 21, was named Danseur Etoile. Bonnefoux danced

with the Bolshoi and Kirov Ballets before being invited by George Balanchine to dance with New York City Ballet. After 10 years with NYCB, Bonnefoux joined the School of Music at Indiana University as chairman and artistic director of the

ballet department. Since 1983, he has been the artistic director of the ballet company and school at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY. In 1996, he joined North Carolina Dance Theatre as artistic director and was named president in 2003. He and his wife, Patricia McBride, have added new works to NCDT’s repertoire, have attracted talent-ed dancers from all over the world, and champi-oned the effort to build a new facility for the com-pany. In June of 2010, NCDT opened the Patricia McBride & Jean–Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance.

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RECORD OF EXCELLENCENYIBC is committed to excellence with a clear vision and a passion for delivering outstand-ing results. It attracts hiring artistic directors and choreographers who are confident that a dancer who has been mentored and trained at NYIBC can endure the rhythm of work and life in a ballet company. Since its inception in 1983, more than half the participating dancers have gone on to successful careers with leading

companies in the United States and abroad, including: American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, The Royal Ballet, Paris Opera Bal-let, National Ballet of Canada, Royal Danish Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Shanghai Ballet, Miami City Ballet, The Royal Winnipeg Bal-let, Boston Ballet, Washington Ballet and Ballet Estable del Teatro Colón among many others.

In 2011, NYIBC celebrates twenty–seven years of providing exceptional education, training, mentor-ing, career advancement, performance and employment opportunities through full scholarships to nearly 500 talented young dancers from all over the world.

WHAT SETS US APARTNew York International Ballet Competition (NYIBC) is a three–week intensive professional training, performance and artistic education program for forty–eight talented young dancers from countries around the world, all of whom receive full scholarships. NYIBC nurtures prom-ising dancers aged 17 to 24 from all ethnicities, regardless of their socio–economic status, pro-

viding them with an exceptional opportunity to completely focus on training to perform at their highest artistic level. The repertory is announced upon the arrival of the dancers in New York. The contemporary duet form and the classical pas de deux are the core of the repertory that NYIBC participants learn from world–renowned coaches under high standards of fairness.

HOW WE DO WHAT WE DOThe first two weeks are devoted to technique classes and the teaching and coaching of the repertory. The participants perform for the public and the illustrious panel of judges in the third week of the program. Learning clas-sical and contemporary masterpieces from world–renowned coaches in such a short time

period, and performing them, provides the dancers with a real–life experience of what it means to work in a first–class ballet company. NYIBC provides an unparalleled professional training and artistic education these young dancers cannot find elsewhere.

Audiences delight in the unique format of the performances whereby the dancers perform the same choreographic version of the ballets chosen for each progressive round. They learn to differentiate and appreciate the artistic and cultural nuances every dancer brings to each piece. Balletomanes and theatergoers alike also

experience the dancers’ personal artistry and unique qualities when they perform their solos. The international jury, comprised of leading artistic figures from different countries, awards Gold, Silver and Bronze medals accompanied by monetary prizes. In addition, the jury gives awards for special artistic achievements.

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The Gussie and Samuel Arbuse Gold MedalSilver Medal

Bronze MedalThe Igor Youskevitch Award

One–year contract with American Ballet Theatre

The Arpino AwardOne–year contract with The Joffrey Ballet

The Lefkowitz AwardFor a dancer or dancers with special attributes

Medals accompanied by monetary awards may be shared or withheld

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José Manuel Carreño, born in Cuba, where he received his training at the Provincial School of Ballet and the National Ballet School. He won the Gold Medal at the New York International Bal-

let Competition in 1987 and the Grand Prix at the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi in 1990. He has appeared extensively in Europe, Latin America and the United States, dancing such roles as Franz in Coppélia, Basil in Don Quixote, Albrecht in Giselle and Prince Sieg-fried in Swan Lake, and the Le Corsaire, Diana and Acteon and “Black Swan” pas de deux.

Carreño joined the English National Ballet in 1990, where his repertoire included Solor in “The Kingdom of the Shades” from La Bay-adère, the Prince in Cinderella, Franz in Cop-pélia, Albrecht in Giselle, the Prince and the Gopak in The Nutcracker, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and roles in a number of one–act ballets and pas de deux, including A Stranger I Came, Etudes, Grad-uation Ball and Prince Igor.

Carreño joined The Royal Ballet as a princi-pal dancer in 1993 where his repertoire included the Bluebird in The Sleeping Beauty, Basilio in Don Quixote, Oberon and Puck in The Dream, a leading role in Herman Schmerman and the lead-ing role in Matthew Hart’s Caught Dance. Carre-

ño joined American Ballet Theatre as a princi-pal dancer in June 1995. His repertoire with the Company includes the title role in Apollo, the leading role in Ballet Imperial, Solor in La Bay-adère, Franz in Coppélia, Conrad, Ali the Slave and Lankendem in Le Corsaire, Basilio in Don Quixote, the third sailor in Fancy Free, Albrecht in Giselle, Fate in Here After, Des Grieux in Manon, Danilo in The Merry Widow, the Cavalier in The Nutcracker, the pas de deux Diana and Acteon, Es-meralda, Grand Pas Classique, Other Dances and Sinatra Suite, Sergei in On the Dnieper, the Man From the House Opposite in Pillar of Fire, War-rior Chieftain in Polovtsian Dances, the Son in Prodigal Son, the leading male role in Push Comes to Shove, Jean de Brienne in Raymonda, Romeo and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Prince Dé-siré in The Sleeping Beauty, Misgir in The Snow Maiden, Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, the sec-ond movement in Symphony in C, the Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Theme and Variations, the first and second variations in Variations for Four, Without Words, and roles in The Brahms–Haydn Variations, Clear, Études, Overgrown Path, Petite Mort and Rabbit and Rogue. He created a leading role in Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Har-rison and Pièce d’Occasion with Herbie Hancock. Mr. Carreño’s performances with American Ballet Theatre are sponsored by Nancy Ellison and William Rollnick.

Alessandra Ball, from Atlanta, G.A., trained with Gwinnett Ballet Theatre under the di-rection of Lisa Sheppard. She also trained with Stanislav Is-saev and went on to complete the Premio Roma Interna-

tional Ballet Competition where she received third prize and the Grishko Prize for Charm and Elegance. Ball danced with Colorado Ballet

for one season before joining North Carolina Dance Theatre 2 and later, the main company. She received a Princess Grace Award in 2005. In 2008, after six years with NC Dance Theatre, Ball moved to Madrid, Spain, where she danced with Victor Ullate Ballet. She returned to NC Dance Theatre in 2009. Ball has performed in George Balanchine’s Agon, Apollo, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Who Cares?, Jerome Robbins’s Fancy Free, and Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs.

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DaVon Doane was born in Salisbury, Maryland. He be-gan his dance training at the age of nine at the Salisbury Studio of Dance in Fruit-land, Maryland. There he performed with the Eastern

Shore Ballet Theater under the Direction of Betty Webster, Tatijana Smith and Elena Manak-hova where he performed roles in The Nutcracker,

Coppelia, Scheherazade, The Polovtsian Dances, Snow White and Peter and the Wolf. In the sum-mer of 2004, he attended the Kirov academy in D.C. Also in the fall of 2004, he attended the Atlantic Contemporary Ballet Theater as a full time academic and artistic student. In 2006, he joined the Atlantic City Ballet and performed roles in the Nutcracker, A Midsummer Night Dream, Eclipse, and the Tchaikovsky’s pas de deux.

Roxane D’Orléans Juste (Associate Artistic Director of Limón Dance Company), a native of Montreal, Canada, has been a member of the Limón Dance Company since 1983. She has also performed

with the Eleo Pomare Dance Company and Annabelle Gamson Dance Solos. Ms. D’Orléans Juste’s choreography has been presented by

Toronto Danceworks, Shoenberg Dancycle, Dia Center for the Arts, L’Agora de la Danse, The Yard, and the Museé du Quebec. She was honored with the Canadian Dance Award, Le Prix Jacqueline Lemieux | 1980, and is the recipient of several grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Foundation for Creation in Fine Arts. An active master teacher, she also stages José Limón’s choreography for companies and ensembles around the world.

Flavia Garcia was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She trained and graduated from The National Ballet of Cuba. She participated in The Interna-tional Ballet Competition at Jackson and Varna. She has

danced with Cia Brasileira de Dancas, Joffrey

Ballet 2, LazarBallet NYC and Participated in Gala of The Stars in Santo Domingo, Domini-can Republic. Her repertoire includes Kitri in Don Quixote, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Me-dora in Le Corsaire and Myrtha in Giselle, plus works by Elie Lazar and Igal Perry to name a few of many. She has danced with DTH Ensemble since 2006.

Victoria Jaiani joined The Joffrey Ballet in August 2003. Born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, Ms. Jaiani began her training at the age of 10 at the Choreographic School of Georgia. Later she continued

her studies at a ballet school in New York. In June 2003, she won a bronze medal at the New

York International Ballet Competition. Since joining The Joffrey, Ms. Jaiani’s roles

include: Edwaard Liang’s Age of Innocence, Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain, Alegro Consabor, Apollo | Terpsichore, Arpino’s Birthday Variations, Ashton’s Cinderella | Cinderella, Jes-sica Lang’s Crossed, Creative Force, Dark Elegies, Giselle | Giselle, The Green Table, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, In the Night, Kettentanz,

Ana Luiza Luizi was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She began her dance education in 1992 at Meia Ponta Studio de Dancas with Juliana Grillo, Marisa Monadjemi, Andrea Leao and Eurico Justino. In

1999, she entered Centro Mineiro de Dancas Classicas, where she studied under Maria Clara Salles and the Cubans Maitres Ofelia Gonza-lez and Mercedes Beltran. In the same year, Ms. Luizi graduated in the Royal Academy of Dance Method. In 2002, she joined the Sesiminas Dance Company under the direction of Madame Cristina Helena and Cuban Maitre Pablo Moret. During this period, Ms. Luizi toured through-out Brazil and Latin America, performing in renowned venues such as Teatro Castro Alves, Teatro Nacional, Palacio das Artes and Teatro Colon in which she performed lead roles in The

Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, La Fille Mal Gardee, Coppelia, Don Quixote and Raymonda. In 2006, she was a participant and laureate at the prestigious Brasilia International Dance Seminar, where she received a Bronze Medal and a schol-arship to study at Europe Ballet Conservatory of St. Polten, Austria, with its renowned faculty of Schyda Mubariakova, Vaquil Usmanov, Chopin Usmanova, Sabina Horn and Michael Fichten-baum. Ana had the opportunity to perform lead roles in various repertory there and had a very successful tour through China.

Ms. Luizi came to the United States in December 2007 as a guest artist for Nutcracker at the Inter-national Ballet Theater in Pennsylvania. She then joined New Jersey Ballet and toured through Rus-sia with the company in 2008. She has performed as a soloist in Cinderella | Fairy Godmother, The Nutcracker | Arabian, Mirlitons, Flowers and Guardian Angel, and La Bayadere.

Addul Manzano began his training at eleven, attending the National Ballet School of Cuba in Havana. He was later selected to join The National Ballet of Cuba under the direction of Alicia

Alonso. Since moving to the United States, he has danced with BALLETNY, Columbia City Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Sarasota Ballet of Florida, Terpsicorps,

Washington Ballet and is in his fifth season with North Carolina Dance Theatre. He has performed principal roles in George Bal-anchine’s Agon, Apollo and The Four Tempera-ments, and as Jonathan Harker in Dracula, Prince Charming in Cinderella, and Snow King and Sugar Plum Cavalier in the Nutcracker. Some of Manzano’s favorite performances in-clude George Balanchine’s “Rubies,” Alonzo King’s SALT and Dwight Rhoden’s Artifice.

Laurencia Pas d’Action, Light Rain, Monotones II, The Nutcracker, Lar Lubovitch’s Othello | Desdemona; Pas Des Deesses | Grahn; Petrouchka; Postcards; Les Presages; Passion; James Kudelka’s Pretty BAL-LET; Jiri Kylian’s Return to a Strange Land; John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet | Juliet; Round of Angels; Square Dance; Viva Vivaldi; and A Wedding Bouquet.

Ms. Jaiani was featured in a world premiere of a new work by Donald Byrd, Motown Suite. Victoria Jaiani is married to Joffrey dancer, Temur Suluashvili. She was on the cover and featured inside the October 2010 edition of Dance Magazine.

Junio Teixeira started studying ballet at 17 years old in Divinopolis–MG inspired by his older brother who was also one of his first dance teachers. One year later, he entered the Escola de Bal-

let Christina Helena in Belo Horizonte– MG, where he improved his technique with the renowned Cuban Maitre Pablo Moret. In 1998, he started his professional ballet career with the Sesiminas Cia de Danca, directed by Christina Helena. He was laureate in many national and international competitions such as Joinville International Dance Festival and Brasilia International Dance Seminar. In 2005, he was

hired by Radenko Pavlovich, director of Co-lumbia Classical Ballet, South Carolina, where he performed principal roles in Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and The Nut-cracker. In December 2007, he joined the New Jersey Ballet and in 2009, toured Russia where he achieved tremendous critical success with ”Be-long” Pas de Deux. Mr. Teixeira dances as a guest artist in many places in the United States such as New Orleans, Colorado, Philadelphia, New York, North Carolina, Michigan, and Delaware. His principal roles include Espada in Don Quix-ote, Prince Siegfried/Von Rothbart in Swan Lake, Lucien in Paquita, Oberon in A Mid Summer Night’s Dream and Cavalier in The Nutcracker.

Matthew Rushing was born in Los Angeles, CA. He began his dance training with Kash-mir Blake in Inglewood, CA, and later continued his train-ing at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.

He received a Spotlight Award and was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. He trained at The Ailey School and later became a member of Ailey II, where he danced for a year. Dur-ing his career, Mr. Rushing has performed as a guest artist for galas in Vail, Colorado, as well as

in France, Russia, Canada, Austria, and Italy. He has performed for former presidents George H. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush and for President Barack Obama, as well as at the 2010 White House tribute to Judith Jamison. During his time with the Company he has choreographed two ballets: Acceptance in Surrender | 2005, a col-laboration with Company members Hope Boykin and Abdur Rahim–Jackson, and Uptown | 2009, a tribute to the Harlem Renaissance. He was recently named a 2010 recipient of the Dance Magazine Award. Mr. Rushing joined the Company in 1992 and became Rehearsal Director in June 2010.

M E NIvan Dinev | BULGARIA/SilverGennadi Saveliev | RUSSIA/SilverRoman Lazik | SLOVAK REPUBLIC/BronzeArionel Vargas | CUBA/BronzeCarlos Molina | COLOMBIA/Igor Youskevitch AwardJohn Hall | USA /Lefkowitz Award for Artistic AchievementAndres Neira | COLOMBIA/Lefkowitz Award for Outstanding Performance of a Solo

1993W O M E N

Nicole Siepert | GERMANY/SilverZivile Baikstyte | LITHUANIA/ BronzeAlejandra Martinez | MEXICO/Lefkowitz

Award for Artistic Achievement

M E NBernard Courtot de Bouteiller | FRANCE /SilverJesus Corrales | CUBA/BronzeBoris Johannes de Leeuw |

NETHERLANDS/BronzeMichael Rissman | GERMANY/Lefkowitz


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Diliana Nikitorova | BULGARIA/SilverKathleen Arcieri | USA /BronzeSilvina Perillo | ARGENTINA/BronzeValerie Robin | USA/Bronze

M E NAidar Akhmetov | U.S.S.R./SilverVictor Alvarez | SPAIN/SilverVentizislav Petrov | BULGARIA/BronzeSlawomir Wozniak | POLAND/BronzeBarry Hughson | USA /Lefkowitz Award for Excellence in Partnering

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Xin Lili | CHINA/SilverJulia Eleanora Paula Cassano | ARGENTINA/BronzeSvetlana Ballester Akimova | CUBA/BronzeNancy M. Latoszweski | USA /Lefkowitz


M E NJosé Manuel Carreño | CUBA/GoldMaximiliano Guido Guerra | ARGENTINA/SilverYang Xin–Hua | CHINA/BronzeJorg Sinon | EAST GERMANY/Lefkowitz

Award for Artistic AchievementHarald Kern | AUSTRIA/Lefkowitz Award

for Artistic Achievement

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Victoria Mazzarelli | USA/GoldLori A. Nowak | USA/SilverLaurie Jane Miller | USA/SilverNadia Deferm | BELGIUM/Bronze

M E NSerge Lavoie | CANADA/SilverDaniel Meja | FRANCE/SilverMichael P. Foster | USA/Bronze

Honorary G O L D M E DA L SEleanor D’Antuono 2009Fernando Bujones 2007 | posthumously Violette Verdy 2005Cynthia Gregory 2003Arthur Mitchell 2000NYIBC dedicated posthumously to Igor Youskevitch 1996Igor Youskevitch 1993Alexandra Danilova 1990Ben Sommers 1987 | posthumously

A N G E LWilliam and Judith Frost James A. GoldsteinReginald Van Lee G U A R A N T O RSusan JannettaSamuel Myers Adina Newman Newman’s Own FoundationSheila PelusoKatelin Teller

P A T R O NKarin GreeneLynne and Alexandra PradoJeffrey and Lynne SandhausAnne and Ernest Schnesel

S P O N S O RAndrea AdelsteinKhephra BurnsJanice DeMarcoElizabeth and Steven EdersheimBernard GrillKarla and Gary JohnsonJoseph SheinRobert and Janet Wittes

S U P P O R T E RDaniel L. Nir and Jill E. BraufmanMichelle CaridiLauren M. CowlesSue FontaineAlice and Jerry GingoldDonald Loyd HolleyBill Hufstader Paula KachurinIrene Smookler KeismanAnne M. KitchensCarole SteeleSimon, Eisenberg and Baum, LLPBarbara Ley Toffler

D O N O RBarbara BartlettCarol and David BenbassatKarla BerbrayerVirginia BerlinElizabeth Brandon

Donnie CahnTracy Lee ChapmanPaul M. ChazanChristopher CoffeyRobert and Barbara CohenCharles CroccoPatricia and Simeon DavidJerry and Helene DreskinJason DurrettLisa M. ElizaldeCheryl Forrest Joan GarberBarbara GatesBobbi and Ralph GoldsteinEvie GoldsteinMary Beth GoldsteinSteven GreenbergLyn GroganAnthony HowarthFrank H. KleinJeffrey LenertKathleen LingoMargaret LundinMildred MastNatalie NewmanAlan and Wendy RosenbergAbra RudisillMyriam SarachikPatricia S. SkigenJaqueline SlifkaMargaret and Walter SnitkinBernard SolomonRonald SonkinMarcia and Bob StoneJudith and Arthur TopilowPol VandenbrouckeSarah A. VogelRichard WechterChristopher WillettDon WiseFrieda Zucker

F R I E N DAlvin AdellDonald J. AibelElaine BrodyLeslie BryanMichele BuchbauerSarah CaseRochelle Cashdan

John Childs, Jr.Michael Marks CohenKatherine ColeJudy CoopersmithMaude S. DavisWalter DietzerJoseph DuffOuida DuncanRuth FeinbergWanda FeltonEllen FlammRobin FontaineEugene GoldsteinMaria GradyRonald GrantJackie GreenbergErika B. GrubbsBruce HallChristopher HarvellLezli Levene HarvellBarbara HirschCurtiss JacobsVirginia JohnsonMr. and Mrs. William KahnBeth Goldstein KlugerRuthann KreingoldMeche KroopPatricia LessowMargaret LundinAnni S. LuneauDavid P. MartinHarold MinskyFrancis PatrelleDavid PeckMarisa Rego PetterssonPfizer FoundationRose PriceVinod RaghavanMatthew C. ReileyAnthony RodellMarianne SalasMata StevensonCarolyn SurgetGary J. TroutSuse VigilsLola C. WestPaul Wiseman, MDAndy and Alice Yerman

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expresses deepest appreciation to all of the following for their generous support

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expresses deepest appreciation to all of the following for their generous support

N Y I B Cexpresses special thanks to the following

Sheila Peluso, ChairAmy CoganRobin FontaineJames A. Goldstein

Maria Grady Susan JannettaLuisa LeybaDavid P. Martin

Adina NewmanGabriela Poler–BuzaliKatelin TellerReginald Van Lee

GALA SUPPORTERS

GALA COMMITTEE

Alvin Adell*Frank AndersenMaria Cristina Anzola*Alessandra BallRobert BattleDana Blanton*Julio BoccaJean–Pierre BonnefouxJosé Manuel CarreñoAmy CoganRobert and Barbara Cohen*

Dance MagazineDance SpiritDance TeacherDutch Kills BarEleanor D’Antuono & John VrabelDaVon DoaneRoxane D’Orléans JusteGrace dos Santos*Keyla Ermecheo*Robin FontaineSue Fontaine*

Frederic FranklinWilliam and Judith Frost††Flavia GarciaGeorgette GebaraJames A. Goldstein††Maria GradyGraphic Systems GroupHotel BeaconMarilyn HuntDenise Jackson Sutherland Victoria Jaiani

Alvin Ailey American Dance TheaterZakaria Al-AlamiAmerican Ballet TheatreRobert BattleLara BermanRichard BoccatoJean-Pierre Bonnefoux Roberto CardenasSarah CaseKatherine ColeDance Theatre of Harlem EnsembleDaniel Nagrin Theatre

Film and Dance Fdn.Lynda ErbsTina EscodaLauren FairbanksJudith FrostThe George Balanchine Trust

Georgette GebaraSandra GuzmanNoel HankinBarbara HorganDiana HortonBill HufstaderThe Joffrey BalletGary and Karla JohnsonVirginia JohnsonJosé Limón Dance Fnd.Beth LessardLynne MacLarenCarla MaxwellPatricia McBrideKevin McKenziePaul McRaeNoemi MillmanAlexandre Mouravskiy

Laveen NaiduNew Jersey BalletNorth Carolina Dance TheatreFreida OrangeOritGabriela Poler-BuzaliMatthew C. ReileyAlan D. RosenbergMilton SarmientoKeith SaundersEllen SorrinPhyllis SteeleTom TraversAnn Vachon Joseph ViveirosRichard Waite Ashley Wheater

Ilona Copen | 1983–2010 James A. Goldstein

Susan Jannetta Adina Newman

Sheila PelusoKatelin Teller


BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Reginald Van Lee, Chair

ARTISTIC BOARD

Frank Andersen Fernando Bujones | 1983–2005 Julio BoccaLucia Chase | 1983–1986 Ilona Copen | 1983—2010 Alexandra Danilova | 1983—1994

Eleanor D’Antuono Frederic FranklinMarilyn HuntVirginia JohnsonValentina KozlovaRobert Lindgren

Paul McRae John Meehan Ben StevensonOliver Smith | 1983—1994 Denise Jackson SutherlandIgor Youskevitch | 1983—1994

Ann B. Jannetta*Peter J. Jannetta*Susan Jannetta**Karla JohnsonVirginia JohnsonPamela J. Joyner‡Valentina KozlovaAlana Lefkowitz*Luisa Leyba*Robert LindgrenKathleen Lingo*Ana Luiza LuiziAddul ManzanoDavid P. MartinCarla MaxwellPatricia McBride

Kevin McKenziePaul McRaeJohn MeehanMoët Hennessy USAAdina Newman*The O GroupAvani and Prashant Parikh*Sheila Peluso **Pointe MagazineGabriela Poler–BuzaliAlan and Wendy Rosenberg*Tomas Rossant*Matthew RushingErnest and Anne Schnesel*Ben StevensonJanet Stovin*

Temur SuluashviliSweet FreidaJunio Teixeira Katelin Teller†Annie S. Totah**Reginald Van Lee††Violette VerdyAshley Wheater2 Dream Artists

*Friend** Ruby Supporter ‡Sapphire Supporter †Emerald Supporter ††Diamond Supporter

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Eleanor D’Antuono, NYIBC artistic director since 1996, epitomized the best of 20th century ballet in an extraordinary performing career that began with Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo when she was just 14. She went on to spend 20 years as a prima ballerina with American Ballet Theatre.

Throughout her career, Ms. D’Antuono received accolades from public and press alike for her performances in Swan Lake, Giselle, and Sleeping Beauty. She also performed extensively in ballets by Balanchine, Tudor, Lander, and Joffrey, as well as in Alvin Ailey’s The River.

Marked by fiery virtuosity, unique lyricism, and bravura technique, she was known as an outstanding partner, and among her memorable partners were Igor Youskev-itch, Paolo Bertoluzzi, Rudolf Nureyev, Fernando Bujones, Ted Kivitt, and John Meehan.

Ms. D’Antuono is artistic advisor in residence of the New Jersey Ballet and the Nutmeg Conservatory of the Arts in Connecticut. She is highly in demand to teach and coach profes-sionals and to stage the ballet classics nationwide. She has served on the NY State Council on the Arts, and has been the recipient of many dance awards, including the First Gubernatorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Dance, NYS, 1979.

Marcia De La Garza, NYIBC executive director, is the Mexico representative of the International Dance Committee of the International Theater Institute (ITI) Ms. De La Garza is also vice–president for the North America region of World Dance Alliance–Americas. She is a Master of Arts Candidate of the Arts Administration Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Ms. De La Garza has worked with NYIBC since 2005. The 11th NYIBC will mark her fourth cycle with the organization.

As dance and music coordinator at Espacio Cultural Metropolitano (METRO) in Tampico, Mexico, she was responsible for international programming and for

concerts, workshops, residencies, conferences and ballet galas. In the inaugural year of METRO, Ms. De La Garza served as executive producer of The Nutcracker, the first major ballet production for the city.

Ms. De La Garza brings with her more than a decade of expertise in arts administration. Over the years, she has had the opportunity to work with some of the most cherished artists and world renowned companies.

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