BEHIND THE BALLET - with Elizabeth Kaye | WOOLF WORKS
BEHIND THE BALLET WITH ELIZABETH KAYE, ABT's Dance Historian
This installment of our 2025 Summer season BEHIND THE BALLETS unearths the contemporary masterpiece that is Wayne McGregor's WOOLF WORKS. Kaye's informative lecture provides us with a rich understanding of the choreographer Wayne McGregor's history, and an abstract overview of the ballet's content. This talk will leave you with much to think about and even more to see on stage.
BEHIND THE BALLET WITH ELIZABETH KAYE, a series of talks with ABT's Dance Historian, renowned ballet lecturer, and New York Times #1 best-selling author. Each BEHIND THE BALLET provides a deep dive into the 2025 Summer season ballets: SWAN LAKE, Wayne McGregor's WOOLF WORKS, GISELLE, THE WINTER'S TALE, and SYLVIA.
Purchase your tickets for WOOLF WORKS at ABT's 2025 Summer season from June 17–20, 2025.
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Elizabeth Kaye is a renowned dance historian, and a New York Times #1 best-selling author.
Her association with ABT began in 1989 and throughout the 1990’s she wrote about ABT’s dancers and repertory for the Arts pages of The New York Times. Her dance writing has also appeared in Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, and Playbill.
She is the author of "American Ballet Theatre: A 25 Year Retrospective", written in 2000 for the company’s 60th anniversary. Recently, she worked with David Hallberg on his book "A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back."
For six years she gave pre-performance talks for ABT at the Metropolitan Opera House and continues to give talks for ABT and for every major ballet company that comes to the West Coast. Additionally, she has taught dance history at UCLA, Cal State, The Kennedy Center, and The University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts.