Kathryn is a former dancer and lifelong patron of the arts. She holds a degree in Art History from Tufts University and is currently studying Arts Administration at Boston University while working in higher education fundraising and development.
Based on Alexandre Dumas' La Dame aux Camélias the tragic love story that inspired Verdi's La Traviata, Ashton Marguerite and Armand ballet for the Royal Ballet, as well as the 2001 film Moulin Rouge, Val Caniparoli's Lady of the Camellias, danced here by Boston Ballet is a beautifully orchestrated, and heartbreaking production.
Mikko Nissinen's new production of Swan Lake for Boston Ballet is a victory, both in showcasing the company’s pool of talent and in rising to modern audience desires to be awed by the sublime.
Boston Ballet's triple bill Pricked, demonstrates the company's versatility both technically and expressively, while showcasing ballet’s traditional past in Études and its more recent incarnations in D.M.J. 1953-1977 and Cacti.
Contemporary dance group, BODYTRAFFIC, made its Boston debut on Friday for a two-night, sold out engagement at the Institute of Contemporary Art, bringing the audience to its feet with a trio of works from three exciting and entirely distinctive choreographers, Kyle Abraham, Barak Marshall, and Richard Siegal.
To open the second half of its 50th anniversary season, Boston Ballet presents a trio of contemporary works that showcases the company’s ever expanding repertory and deepening talent pool with Close to Chuck Reborn.
Boston Ballet opens its much anticipated 50th season with La Bayadère, the classic ballet of love, betrayal, and vengeance, set in an exotic and opulent kingdom in ancient India. Boston Ballet featured the world première of this production in 2010, with choreography by Florence Clerc after Marius Petipa, and music by Ludwig Minkus.
José Mateo Ballet Theatre opens its 28th season with Shadows Fleeting. Performed in the company’s Sanctuary Theatre, the stunningly converted Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Harvard Square, the program showcases selections of founder and artistic director José Mateo’s last decade of work, including two company classics and the première of his newest ballet, Vanished Verses.
Beautifully imagined, Boston Ballet’s Coppélia delights with its charming sets, colorful costumes and charismatic leads. A storybook come to life, this ballet tells the fanciful tale of young love gone awry amidst a set of peculiar circumstances true to fairytale form.
When planning for the 2012/13 season, Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen could not have known how incredibly well-timed Chroma would seem for the Boston community.
