Seeking relevance and new audiences, NYC ballet companies embrace diversity

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Faced with pressure to grow and change, New York City Ballet and other prominent companies are responding with diverse new programming.

, the company’s youngest choreographer. For some visitors, Solange was the decisive hook.

“When we saw that she was having a ballet show here, we looked at the prices, and saw that they were pretty affordable,” Ibrahim said. “So we bought tickets, and then planned our whole trip around seeing her.” Lauren Epps, a former ballet dancer who’s lived in New York City for just over three years, paid her first-ever visit to New York City Ballet to see Knowles make history as only the second Black woman ever to compose a score for the company.

 

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