MoBBallet:
Pathways to Performance
At outdoor Henry J. Leir Stage: Jul 10 - Jul 11
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About
MoBBallet: Pathways to Performance
This performance took place on July 10-11, 2024.
Pillow Debut
This exciting initiative by Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet (MoBBallet) founder Theresa Ruth Howard presented the works of established Black choreographers including Donald Byrd, Jennifer Archibald, and Kiyon Ross, and early-career makers Meredith Rainey and Portia Adams, who are creating in the idiom of ballet. This program was performed by 12 international Black Ballet artists from preeminent ballet companies across the country.
Howard’s Pathways to Performance (PTP) Choreographic Program is supported by Jacob’s Pillow and The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. MoBBallet created PTP in order to nurture and develop Black ballet choreographers and those of color, providing them with opportunities to create and present their work on prominent stages.
A multi-talented and highly-regarded voice in the field, Howard is a former ballet dancer, curator, scholar, and arts leader with a longstanding connection to Jacob’s Pillow. She founded MoBBallet in 2015 to preserve, promote, and present the historical and present-day contributions of Blacks in ballet. Following Howard’s work in a Reframing the Narrative residency at the Kennedy Center, her launch of the PTP Choreographic Program at the MoBBallet Symposium led to this most recent collaboration with Jacob’s Pillow.
MoBBallet: Pathways to Performance will feature:
Joshua Bodden
Corey Bourbonniere (Pittsburgh Ballet Theater)
Leiland Charles (BalletMet)
Ashton Edwards (Pacific Northwest Ballet)
Princess Reid (Joffrey Ballet)
Whitney Huell (Kansas City Ballet)
Zsilas Michael Hughes (Pacific Northwest Ballet)
Ashley Murphy-Wilson (The Washington Ballet)
Jonathan Philbert (New Jersey Ballet)
Miranda Silveira Templer
Raquel Smith (Collage Dance Collective)
Victoria Watford (BalletMet)
Watch related content on Jacob’s Pillow On Demand:
- Inside the Pillow Lab: Theresa Ruth Howard, 2022
Listen and read more about Pathways to Performance on WTOP News
Read more on Broadway World
Generous lead underwriting support for the presentation of Pathways to Performances was provided by Jeff Davis and Michael Miller.
