Kathryn Posin News

Philadelphia, PA (August 3, 2016) – Pennsylvania Ballet has announced the extension of Artistic Director Angel Corella's contract through the 2021-2022 season. 

  The Kathryn Posin Dance Company, invited by 92 Y to open the Harkness Dance Festival last February 11 & 12, has been awarded a generous grant for this program  by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, which includes the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Norte Maar, a committed international think-tank dedicated to the creation, promotion, and presentation of collaborations in the disciplines of the visual, literary, and the performing arts, together with Brooklyn Ballet, present CounterPointe, April 8-10, 2016 in downtown Brooklyn's The Actors Fund Arts Center. This annual curated performance series features new work by women choreographers for pointe. For this, its fourth iteration, 7 women choreographers have been paired with 7 Brooklyn based women visual artists to collaborate and create both a new physical and visual work by each--investigating the process of creation, inspiration and development.

The Milwaukee Ballet will present a revival of Kathryn Posin's Scheherazade during the company's 2016-17 season. Performances will take place on October 20, 21, 22 and 23, 2016 at the Marcus Center;s Uihlein Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Kathryn Posin Dance Company is honored to have been invited by the 92nd Street Y to be the company that re-opens the fabled 900-seat Kaufman Concert Hall, for years one of New York's major dance venues, re-opening after a long closure.  Performances will take place February 11 & 12, 2016 on the stage that has seen many early performances by the companies of Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Alvin Ailey and, in 1967, the choreographic debut of Kathryn Posin.  The invitation is a result of the success of the KPCD's 2014 season at the 92nd Street Y's Buttenweiser Hall, 'Voices of Bulgaria and America,' which sold out and was live-streamed to 54 countries. 

Rising young choreographer CLAUDIA SCHREIER will present a program of her works, including three World Premieres, featuring dancers from New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem and more. The program will also feature an original commissioned score by multi-Emmy Award-winning composer JEFF BEAL (House of Cards), performed live by string trio and piano, and the 20-member choir TAPESTRY. One night only, tonight, August 8, 7:30 PM, at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, Ninth Avenue & 55th Street.

Rising young choreographer CLAUDIA SCHREIER will present a program of her works, including three World Premieres, featuring dancers from New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem and more.  The program will also feature an original commissioned score by multi-Emmy Award-winning composer JEFF BEAL (House of Cards), performed live by string trio and piano, and the 20-member choir TAPESTRY.  One night only, August 8, 7:30 PM, at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, Ninth Avenue & 55th Street.  

From a modern dance education, Kathryn Posin has emerged as a contemporary ballet choreographer. In the program, she presented, October 17, 18, & 19th, at the 92nd St. Y, with Associate Choreographer/Associate Artistic Director Momchil Mladenov, her long time collaborator, the girls danced on pointe, in every ballet. The vocabulary is decidedly classical with a contemporary approach, meaning that the movement dictionary is enlarged to include today's culture. Emil Tabakov, acclaimed Bulgarian conductor and composer, who had a hand in this production, was in attendance at the 10/17, 8:00 PM performance, which I was fortunate to see.

At the 92nd Street YMHA, the air was welcoming, even communal, an environment where poets and weightlifters share space amid the world-famous Jewish institution. On October 17th an enthusiastic audience gathered in from the chill fall winds, warmed up and revivified by a multigenerational creativity spanning various cultural and artistic traditions. Voices of Bulgaria and America could not have been a more ideal exhibition.

MIREILLE FAVAREL, former principal dancer of the Milwaukee Ballet and currently associate director of Milwaukee Ballet II, will teach a day of master classes for the Brandywine Ballet on April 6, 2014 at The Dancer Center, West Chester, Pennsylvania.

The Sofia National Ballet of Bulgaria will present the European and Company Premiere of Kathryn Posin's Scheherazade on April 19, 20, 28 & 29, 2012 at the Opera House in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The National Ballet of Bulgaria will present the European and Company Premiere of Kathryn Posin's Stepping Stones on June 9, 10 and 11, 2011 at the Opera House in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The National Ballet of Bulgaria will present the European and Company Premiere of Kathryn Posin's Stepping Stones on June 9, 10 and 11, 2011 at the Opera House in Sofia, Bulgaria.