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Music For Lovers
Oct 23, 2026
- Oct 25, 2026 (Multiple Slots)
The Jacques d’Amboise Center for Learning & the Arts, 217, West 147th Street, New York, New York, 10039, United States
Description
The ChoreoJoey Project opens its 12th year with Music for Lovers, a 75-minute jazz ballet choreographed and directed by Stephen Hill that explores the many ways love shapes how people relate to one another and the world around them. The work is built around a lyric from Nina Simone’s Music for Lovers:
“When the whole world discovers
That love's the only thing worthwhile
There'll be music for everyone
And the whole world will smile”
That idea—the discovery of love as a worthwhile presence—develops the world of the ballet. Rather than focusing only on romance, Music for Lovers examines familial, platonic, intimate, communal, environmental, and worldly love, allowing each form to influence the relationships and movement onstage.
The choreography blends jazz dance, social dance, and movement influenced by West African technique within a narrative structure shaped by American jazz music, particularly works associated with the 1960s and 1970s. Music from Dorothy Ashby, Herbie Hancock, Idris Muhammad, Cal Tjader, Nancy Wilson and more.
Cast
Sara Alessia Giannini
Jaqi Grendeau
David Guallpa
Alaynia Fox
Dahlia Seidel
Mason Neally
Alazia J. Peters
Jasmine Presti
B’ili Scott
Organizer
The ChoreoJoey Project
Venue
The Jacques d’Amboise Center for Learning & the Arts
217, West 147th Street, New York, New York, 10039, United States
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