So Grateful for Live Music in Rehearsal and Performance

Tentatively titled “Spiders, Cooks and Mood Swings," Lynn Parkerson's newest work-in-progress will feature in Brooklyn Ballet's 10th anniversary season performances this month and next. Purchase tickets here.

Brooklyn Ballet launches its first Kickstarter campaign to help fund our 10th Anniversary Season

We've been letting you in on a few details of our upcoming season, and we're very excited to keep spreading the news about our new ballets, special events and more.

Tickets are now on sale for our performances at both The Actors Fund Arts Center here in our home space at The Schermerhorn and our one-night-only run at Kumble Theater. More information to come about ways to party with the company during the season run!

Brooklyn Ballet has collaborated with Patricia Forelle since she designed costumes for Mystery Sonatas in 2005. (You can read more about our work with Patricia here.)

Her breathtaking Baroque costumes (see above) for La Folia earned her a 2011 Bessie Award nomination for design, and we simply can't wait to see our dancers in costume for this year's Forest Fairies and Peasant Revolt.

Stravinsky's Suite Italienne in Rehearsal

This season, Brooklyn Ballet will perform a new mixed movement work to Stravinsky's "Suite Italienne" from the ballet Pulcinella. Lynn is using video of past creations to Pergolesi's original orchestral score to inspire this year's choreography.

Brooklyn Ballet dancers crowd around a video of Lynn's past choreography.

Lynn provides instruction about a duet in the piece.

Some of the ballet's later sections will include street dancers and African-based movement.

Beautiful dancing by Brooklyn Ballet's company members in rehearsal this week...even with the blooper at the end of this clip. We're not worried - our show is in March!

Join us for our 10th Anniversary Season:

Home Season Previews
March 29, 30 & 31 at 8pm
April 1 at 3pm
The Actors Fund Arts Center
Downtown Brooklyn

Revolutionaries and Romantics!
April 13 at 8pm
Kumble Theater
Downtown Brooklyn

Tickets on sale soon!

NYC Costume Designer Patricia Forelle takes her place as one of the top costume designers for ballet

Brooklyn Ballet is celebrating its 10th anniversary season this year, and we’re kicking off the season with an illuminating and entertaining lecture on ballet costume design by Patricia Forelle. Dressing For The Dance, the costume design lecture event, takes place Wednesday, October 19 at 7pm in the Actors Fund Arts Center, 160 Schermerhorn, Brooklyn NY 11201.

Brooklyn Ballet is also using this event to build support for its Costume Fund:

Ballet’s fate has recently become an issue of popular debate thanks to Jennifer Homans’ Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet (November 2010). The author’s bold assertion that ballet is dying is a call to arms for choreographers like Lynn Parkerson, who has been ready and willing to answer for years. In line with this current preoccupation with ballet history and Homans' dire diagnosis, Lynn offered a curatorial nod to ballet’s past conditions and current vivacity in March.

From Baroque to Hip Hop: Brooklyn Ballet 2011 Season from Lynn Parkerson on Vimeo.