Solange, Alejandro Gómez Palomo, Gianna Reisen, and the dancers of the New York City Ballet take a bow after the world premiere of “Play Time” at New York City Ballet’s 2022 Fall Fashion Gala at Lincoln Center on September 28, 2022, in New York.Spanish designer Alejandro Gomez Palomo created the exuberant costumes for “Play Time,” exaggerated takes on classic midcentury office attire, complete with more than 800,000 Swarovski crystals that glimmered with the dancers’ every move.
The purpose of the Fall Fashion Gala, envisioned by none other than New York City Ballet chair Sarah Jessica Parker, is a marrying of the worlds of dance and fashion. An incidental consequence is the event’s ability to reduce the average age of the ballet’s traditional attendees. Past years have included iconic purveyors of youth culture like Virgil Abloh, and last night’s event felt nothing like the stuffy and elite ballet of our collective imagination.
The final performance of the evening was the world premiere of chorographer Kyle Abraham’s “Love Letter ,” which included a tasteful selection of music by James Blake, pulling largely from his early dubstep releases. The performance was dense with feeling, not unlike being heartbroken and listening to the warm croons of Blake’s most forlorn releases. During a particularly vibrant movement, one of NYCB’s principal dancers glided across the stage hitting a dougie with a ballerina’s grace.
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