Join the Whitney Museum of American Art for a special conversation, presented by Aspen Conexión in partnership with the Embassy of the Dominican Republic, exploring the impact of Latinos on America’s favorite pastime–baseball! Highlighting Dominican contributions in particular, the dialogue will feature remarks from the Ambassador of the Dominican Republic, H.E. Maria Isabel Castillo and MLB legend, former Mets player and the winner of the Roberto Clemente Award, Nelson Cruz. We’ll highlight the cultural and economic impact of Latino athletes and fans, discussing insights from the Aspen–McKinsey report, Unlocking the Growing Power of Latino Fans: Building a Stronger Sports Economy, and share historic photographs of baseball players and fans from the archives of the Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes in the Dominican Republic.

Agenda at a glance
5 pm: Welcome & Introductory Remarks
5:15 pm: Keynote Address
5:30 pm: Sports Diplomacy and Economic Impact
6 pm: Success On and Beyond the Field: Financial Empowerment for Players
6:30 pm: The Arts and Baseball: A Conversation between The Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes and the Whitney Museum of American Art

Featured Speakers
Her Excellency, María Isabel Castillo Báez, Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the United States
Nelson Cruz, MLB Legend, Ex-baseball player for 19 seasons and winner of the Roberto Clemente and Muhammad Ali Awards
Diego Deleersnyder, Managing Director, Aspen Conexión
Pilar Frank-O’Leary, Executive Director, Aspen Conexión
María Amalia León, President, Fundación León Jimenes and Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes
Andy Navarrete, Executive Vice President, Global Enterprise Affairs, Capital One
Steven Puig, President and General Manager, Banco BHD
Cris Scorza, Helena Rubinstein Chair of Education, Whitney Museum of American Art
Miguel Batista, International Special Assistant, Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA); Former MLB Player
Francisco Cordero, former MLB Player,  International Special Assistant, Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA); Former MLB Player
Alba Garcia, Partner, McKinsey & Company

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

By Aristophanes
Translated by Gilbert Murray
Adapted and directed by Orlando Pabotoy

Student choreography selected by faculty from throughout the year’s choreography workshops is presented. Dancers from the class of 2027 also serve as stage managers and lighting designers.

​Tickets for this performance are limited. Please check back closer to the performance for availability.

https://www.juilliard.edu/school/preparatory-division/pre-college-division/pre-college-curriculum

By Aristophanes
Translated by Gilbert Murray
Adapted and directed by Orlando Pabotoy

Marcus Shields directs a stellar cast of Juilliard opera students in Giuseppi Verdi’s raucous comic capstone, reimagined in swinging 1970s Britain. Based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, the opera follows the buffoonish and rotund knight Falstaff attempting to get rich through the seduction of multiple married women. What could go wrong? Don’t miss this chance to laugh at and with Shakespeare’s loveable rogue.

Verdi blends humor and surprising humanity with masterful composition that comments on our hero’s misadventures in real time. An ensemble cast led by Minki Hong along with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Joseph Colaneri brings to life the light-hearted arias and beloved final fugue of Verdi’s unforgettable musical farce.

Juilliard Orchestra
Joseph Colaneri, Conductor 
Marcus Shields, Director

Frank Oliva, Scenic and Lighting Designer
Avery Reed, Costume Designer

Cast
Falstaff: Minki Hong
Ford: Titus Muzi
Alice Ford: Page Michels
Nannetta: Shiyu Zhuo
Meg Page: Sophia Baete
Mistress Quickly: Lauren Randolph
Fenton: Adam Catangui
Dr. Caius: Chester SeungYup Han
Bardolfo: Nathan Romportl
Pistola: Lin Fan

Chorus
Kimberly Alexandra Adam, Felix Aurelius, Antonia Cáceres, Bryan Corral, Joe DeGroote, Zhongjiancheng Deng, Fantine Douilly, Andrew Gellen, Scarlett Jones, Owen Kilgore, Giuliana Leto, Joe Murphy, Lucia Papikian, Benjamin Pedersen, Sophia Pelekasis, Samone, Boheng Shen, Adriana Stepien, Sean Tagariello, Tivoli Treloar, Valcharge, Fangzhen Wang, Minghang Wang, Tong Zhang

Join us before the performance for our Prelude preconcert lecture series!

DMA student Baron Fenwick will provide insightful context  for the performance that follows. This lecture will take place in Room 105 of Juilliard’s Diamond Building, around the corner from Alice Tully Hall, from 6:15 to 7:15pm.

Student choreography selected by faculty from throughout the year’s choreography workshops is presented. Dancers from the class of 2027 also serve as stage managers and lighting designers.

​Tickets for this performance are limited. Please check back closer to the performance for availability.

Student choreography selected by faculty from throughout the year’s choreography workshops is presented. Dancers from the class of 2027 also serve as stage managers and lighting designers.

​Tickets for this performance are limited. Please check back closer to the performance for availability.

By Aristophanes
Translated by Gilbert Murray
Adapted and directed by Orlando Pabotoy

Full day of back-to-back chamber ensemble concerts.

Student choreography selected by faculty from throughout the year’s choreography workshops is presented. Dancers from the class of 2027 also serve as stage managers and lighting designers.

​Tickets for this performance are limited. Please check back closer to the performance for availability.

Marcus Shields directs a stellar cast of Juilliard opera students in Giuseppi Verdi’s raucous comic capstone, reimagined in swinging 1970s Britain. Based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, the opera follows the buffoonish and rotund knight Falstaff attempting to get rich through the seduction of multiple married women. What could go wrong? Don’t miss this chance to laugh at and with Shakespeare’s loveable rogue.

Verdi blends humor and surprising humanity with masterful composition that comments on our hero’s misadventures in real time. An ensemble cast led by Minki Hong along with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Joseph Colaneri brings to life the light-hearted arias and beloved final fugue of Verdi’s unforgettable musical farce.

Juilliard Orchestra
Joseph Colaneri, Conductor 
Marcus Shields, Director

Frank Oliva, Scenic and Lighting Designer
Avery Reed, Costume Designer

Cast
Falstaff: Minki Hong
Ford: Titus Muzi
Alice Ford: Page Michels
Nannetta: Shiyu Zhuo
Meg Page: Sophia Baete
Mistress Quickly: Lauren Randolph
Fenton: Adam Catangui
Dr. Caius: Chester SeungYup Han
Bardolfo: Nathan Romportl
Pistola: Lin Fan

Chorus
Kimberly Alexandra Adam, Felix Aurelius, Antonia Cáceres, Bryan Corral, Joe DeGroote, Zhongjiancheng Deng, Fantine Douilly, Andrew Gellen, Scarlett Jones, Owen Kilgore, Giuliana Leto, Joe Murphy, Lucia Papikian, Benjamin Pedersen, Sophia Pelekasis, Samone, Boheng Shen, Adriana Stepien, Sean Tagariello, Tivoli Treloar, Valcharge, Fangzhen Wang, Minghang Wang, Tong Zhang

Join us before the performance for our Prelude preconcert lecture series!

DMA student Baron Fenwick will provide insightful context  for the performance that follows. This lecture will take place in Room 105 of Juilliard’s Diamond Building, around the corner from Alice Tully Hall, from 6:15 to 7:15pm.

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

Juilliard dance students present an excerpt from Merce Cunningham’s Pond Way, inspired by the movement of water and skipping stones, on Lincoln Center’s Hearst Plaza.

Part of Juilliard Celebrates Earth Month

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

https://www.juilliard.edu/school/preparatory-division/pre-college-division/pre-college-curriculum

Full day of back-to-back chamber ensemble concerts.

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

Juilliard Drama Presents Flock, based on The Conference of the Birds

By Farid ud-Din Attar
Adapted by Amlin Gray
​Directed by Ellen Lauren

https://www.juilliard.edu/school/preparatory-division/pre-college-division/pre-college-curriculum

Juilliard Drama Presents Flock, based on The Conference of the Birds

By Farid ud-Din Attar
Adapted by Amlin Gray
​Directed by Ellen Lauren

Juilliard Drama Presents Flock, based on The Conference of the Birds

By Farid ud-Din Attar
Adapted by Amlin Gray
​Directed by Ellen Lauren

Full day of back-to-back chamber ensemble concerts.

Juilliard Drama Presents Flock, based on The Conference of the Birds

By Farid ud-Din Attar
Adapted by Amlin Gray
​Directed by Ellen Lauren

Juilliard Drama Presents Flock, based on The Conference of the Birds

By Farid ud-Din Attar
Adapted by Amlin Gray
​Directed by Ellen Lauren

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

https://www.juilliard.edu/school/preparatory-division/pre-college-division/pre-college-curriculum

magic hour–golden time is a durational performance presented as part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial, in which five performers activate the museum’s terraces as both stage and vantage point. The work draws on the Japanese aesthetic concept of shakkei—“borrowed scenery”—and the German Romantic compositional device of Rückenfigur, in which a figure is seen from behind, gazing into a landscape. Together, these frameworks shape a choreography of looking and being looked at, situating the body within relations of scale, perception, and environment.

magic hour–golden time unfolds over a three-hour duration, during which the performers relocate at the top of each hour to activate a different outdoor terrace of the Whitney. The performance can be witnessed from multiple perspectives throughout its duration: from within the museum’s galleries, terraces, and stairwells, as well as from public pedestrian viewpoints including the surrounding sidewalks, waterfront, and the High Line. Viewers are invited to encounter the work from changing positions, emphasizing movement, perception, and the shared experience of time across interior and exterior spaces.

Performed by AJ Wilmore, India Lena González, Ananda Naima González, Marguerite Hemmings, and Kingsley Ibeneche
Costumes by Liz Prince
Produced by Greta Hartenstein

Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art for the 2026 Whitney Biennial, magic hour–golden time is co-presented and supported by Frieze.

Presented as part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial, this performance explores the theatricality and choreography of a museum visit in the galleries of the Whitney Museum's permanent collection exhibition, “Untitled” (America). Centering the visitor’s experience, BEING MOVED locates its subject not in the artworks themselves, but in the social rules, scripts, and patterns that condition our encounters with art. Tracing the gap between the fantasy of a profound encounter and the ambivalent realities of contemporary spectatorship, the work plays with the ordinary and minor dramas of a museum visit.

This performance was created in collaboration with the performers. 

Credits
Concept & Direction: Maia Chao 
Choreography & Assistant Direction: Lena Engelstein
Performed by & Devised with: James Barrett, Kristine Bendul, Deja Rion, David Guzman, Anna Kohler, Ellen Maddow, Cory Seals, Nancy Slusser, Jo Warren, Paul Zimet
Sound Design and Composition: Ryan Gamblin
Synth Composition: Nina Ryser 
Costume Design: Zoë Chao & Maia Chao 
Producer & Stage Manager: Aoife Delaney
Creative Consulting Producer: Emma Orme 
Developed with: Miguel Alejandro Castillo Le Maitre, Marin Day, Ben Hard, Ampersand Paris, Chloe Engel, Nate Repasz, Spencer Claus, Isa Spector, Neva Guido, Miles Toth, Nora Raine Thompson 
Special Thanks: Ethan Philbrick, Emma Bergman, Blanche Brown, Maggie Millner, Joanna Zhang, Parker Sera, Julian Chehirian, Lane Speidel, Sunita Mani, Kim Altomare, Zoë Chao

BEING MOVED was commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial.

Maia Chao is an artist making anthropological work across performance, video, sculpture, and public practice. Chao has made commissions for Times Square Arts, the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden with Ethan Philbrick, and The Shed. Her collaborative projects have been presented at the RISD Museum, Bronx Museum, Mural Arts Philadelphia, Boston Center for the Arts, Smack Mellon, and Oregon Contemporary. She has completed fellowships and residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, Pioneer Works, and Queer|Art, among others. Chao was a 2022 Pew Fellow and is a 2026 United States Artist Fellow. She is based in Philadelphia and is currently faculty of Interdisciplinary Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

Free Pop-Up Performances at 66th & Broadway

Juilliard Station, the new venue just off the 66th Street 1 train subway stop at Broadway, gives New Yorkers and other passersby an opportunity to step away for free music, dance, drama, talks, and master classes. The intimate, glass-walled studio fuses the daily rhythm of New York City with glimpses of the artistry cultivated within Juilliard’s halls. 

The Station offers inspiring, 45-minute lunchtime and evening rush hour performances and other events—serving as a gateway to the iconic Lincoln Center campus. 

After last season’s launch, Juilliard Station quickly became a highly in-demand ticket. Except, there are no tickets. Performances are all free, open to all ages, and first come, first served.  

SAB’s annual Workshop Performances are a public demonstration of the continuing tradition of excellence fostered at the School. Dozens of intermediate and advanced students, along with a selection of Children’s Division students, participate each year in the School’s Workshop, which culminates in three spring performances at Lincoln Center with costumes, lights, and live orchestra.

The ballets presented include standards from the Balanchine repertory, Bournonville excerpts, Jerome Robbins’ ballets, and other classical masterworks. In recent years, the Workshop program has featured more contemporary ballets by Justin Peck, William Forsythe, and Gianna Reisen. The School also commissions new choreography made especially on SAB students.

Several notable alumni made their pre-professional debut at SAB’s Workshop Performances, including Wendy Whelan, Sara Mearns, Mira Nadon, Taylor Stanley, Robert Fairchild, Paloma Herrera, Tiler Peck, and SAB’s own Zita Ezpeleta Artistic Director and Chair of Faculty Jonathan Stafford. We invite you to join us for the annual spring performances and be introduced to the talented dancers of the future.

SAB’s annual Workshop Performances are a public demonstration of the continuing tradition of excellence fostered at the School. Dozens of intermediate and advanced students, along with a selection of Children’s Division students, participate each year in the School’s Workshop, which culminates in three spring performances at Lincoln Center with costumes, lights, and live orchestra.

The ballets presented include standards from the Balanchine repertory, Bournonville excerpts, Jerome Robbins’ ballets, and other classical masterworks. In recent years, the Workshop program has featured more contemporary ballets by Justin Peck, William Forsythe, and Gianna Reisen. The School also commissions new choreography made especially on SAB students.

Several notable alumni made their pre-professional debut at SAB’s Workshop Performances, including Wendy Whelan, Sara Mearns, Mira Nadon, Taylor Stanley, Robert Fairchild, Paloma Herrera, Tiler Peck, and SAB’s own Zita Ezpeleta Artistic Director and Chair of Faculty Jonathan Stafford. We invite you to join us for the annual spring performances and be introduced to the talented dancers of the future.

SAB’s annual Workshop Performances are a public demonstration of the continuing tradition of excellence fostered at the School. Dozens of intermediate and advanced students, along with a selection of Children’s Division students, participate each year in the School’s Workshop, which culminates in three spring performances at Lincoln Center with costumes, lights, and live orchestra.

The ballets presented include standards from the Balanchine repertory, Bournonville excerpts, Jerome Robbins’ ballets, and other classical masterworks. In recent years, the Workshop program has featured more contemporary ballets by Justin Peck, William Forsythe, and Gianna Reisen. The School also commissions new choreography made especially on SAB students.

Several notable alumni made their pre-professional debut at SAB’s Workshop Performances, including Wendy Whelan, Sara Mearns, Mira Nadon, Taylor Stanley, Robert Fairchild, Paloma Herrera, Tiler Peck, and SAB’s own Zita Ezpeleta Artistic Director and Chair of Faculty Jonathan Stafford. We invite you to join us for the annual spring performances and be introduced to the talented dancers of the future.

Presented as part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial, a forklift, built for cargo, for weight, for work, becomes Ruiz’s partner, lifting her into the air with a slow, deliberate tenderness that feels both perilous and reverent. Her body rises, not as a spectacle of fragility, but as a figure of power, suspended, carried, guided through space by a dance of steel, air, and breath. 

The performance shifts between sharp mechanical precision and moments of ecstatic release, where menial labor turns luminous and gravity becomes negotiable. There is an echo of the quinceañera, of ceremonial elevation, of being lifted into visibility, yet here the ritual is rewritten.

Duration
Approximately 30 minutes

Gabriela Ruiz (b. San Fernando Valley, CA; lives and works in Los Angeles) is a multimedia artist working across performance, sculpture, video, and digital media. Ruiz has presented solo exhibitions at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2023); Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs (2022); Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (2019). Selected group exhibitions have been held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2026); Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (2026); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2025); Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles (2025, 2024, 2021); Pérez Art Museum Miami (2024); The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, Riverside Art Museum (2023); Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2018); ICA LA, Los Angeles (2018); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (2022); and CASTTL and Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp (2019).

Ruiz has performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2026); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2019); ICA LA, Los Angeles (2018); Centro Cultural Clavijero, Morelia (2018); and USC Roski School of Art and Design as part of Pacific Standard Time: Live Art LA/LA (2018). She has delivered lectures and participated in panels at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2023); The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, Riverside (2023); University of California, Santa Barbara (2022); California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (2022); University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2019); and California State University, Northridge (2018). Ruiz has participated in residencies at Pioneer Works, New York (2026); Fountainhead Residency, Miami (2025); the Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan (2023); and the Outburst Program at Palm Springs Art Museum (2022). She is a recipient of the Fountainhead Arts Forum Award (2025) and the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2024).

Ruiz’s work is in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Palm Springs Art Museum.

Presented as part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial, Doomscroll is a podcast that explores online culture and politics in the 21st century. This live podcast will feature political scientist Francis Fukuyama. Previous episodes can be found here.

Collaborators
Executive Producers: Riel Roch-Decter & Clark Filio
Producer: David Fowlkes
Editor: LJ Frezza
Cinematography: Nellie Kluz
Wardrobe: Cory Kennedy
Color Grade: Samuel Gursky
Music: DJ Umberto Ecco 2K
Guests will be announced closer to the event date.

Doomscroll is a Memory Production.

Duration
Approximately two hours.

Recommended for people 13 years of age and up.

Joshua Citarella is an artist and writer. He is the host of Doomscroll, a talk show that explores online culture and politics in the 21st century. He is the founder of Do Not Research.