Benefit Performance Program 2025
Focusing on the variety and breadth of what dance has to offer, the 2025 performance on July 12 will feature many of today's outstanding choreographers, live musicians and dancers while also showcasing the island youth!​
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Get your tickets below or catch our Livestream if you can't make it to Nantucket!
If Hearts Could Talk
Choreography Dario Natarelli
Music This Must be Wrong and Full Moon and Empty Arms by Caterina Valente
Dancers Dario Natarelli
Lighting Mark Stanley
Liturgy
Choreography Chris Wheeldon
Music Fratres by Arvo Pärt*
Musicians Emelyn Bashour, Wesley Ducote
Costume Design Holly Hynes
Dancers Lillian Casscells, Loren Walton
Lighting Mark Stanley
Libertango
Choreography Denys Drozdyuk and Antonina Skobina
Music Liber Tango by Layers Classic & Sang-Ji Koh
Dancers Denys Drozdyuk and Antonina Skobina
Lighting Mark Stanley
A Seed
Choreography Robbie Fairchild & Sonya Tayeh
Music Souvenir de Florence Serenade for Strings, Op. 70: II, Adagio cantible by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky*
Musicians Emelyn Bashour, Sophia Bernitz, Miriam Liske-Doorandish, Alex McLaughlin
Dancer Robbie Fairchild, Ben Rudisin
​Lighting Mark Stanley
Nocturne
Choreography Laine Habony
Music Nocturne in E Minor by Frédéric Chopin*
Musicians Wesley Ducote
Dancers Hannah Fischer, Damian Zamorano
Lighting Mark Stanley
Cloven Kingdom
Choreography Paul Taylor
Music Malloy Miller
Dancers Alex Clayton, Lee Duveneck, John Harnage and Devon Louis from Paul Taylor Dance Company
Lighting Jennifer Tipton
Diamonds Pas de deux (from Jewels)
Choreography George Balanchine ©The George Balanchine Trust
Music Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29 by Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky
Dancers Hannah Fischer, Ben Rudisin
Lighting Mark Stanley
Ase
Choreography Brian HallowDreamz Henry
Music Dreams by Facesoul
Dancer Brian HallowDreamz Henry
Lighting Mark Stanley
Musagetes Quartet
Choreography Lauren Lovette
Music Live Concerto for Piano and 4 Strings by Caroline Shaw*
Musicians Emelyn Bashour, Sophia Bernitz, Wesley Ducote, Miriam Liske-Doorandish, Alex McLaughlin
Dancers Ava Bernardo, Manuela Lira, Kayla Mak, Peter DeCarlo
Lighting Mark Stanley
Once Our Eyes Watered ~ World Premiere
Choreography Robenson Mathurin
Music Once Our Eyes Watered by Sarah Gibson*
Musicians Wesley Ducote
Dancer Robenson Mathurin
Lighting Mark Stanley
Don Quixote Pas de Deux & Variations
Choreography Marius Petipa
Music Don Quixote by Ludwig Minkus
Dancers Evelina Godunova, Damian Zamorano
Lighting Mark Stanley
Finale
Choreography Lauren Lovette
Music I've Got Rhythm by George Gershwin, arranged by Wesley DuCote*
Dancers All dancers & young people from Nantucket Island
Lighting Mark Stanley
*Played live by Rossini Club
