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This event is sold out.

If you would still like to attend, you may purchase seats directly from the box office. Our seats are in the mezzanine, rows A - C. You are also welcome to attend our pre-performance reception. Please RSVP to 81arts (at) panycweb.org and bring $10 in cash or check payable to "Princeton Association of New York City" to the event.

Thanks to the Class of 1983 for their donation to the reception.

Please email us at (81arts (at) panycweb.org) with any questions.

 

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Performance and a Discussion with Thomas Cott '83

Thursday December 10, 2009, 7:00PM

Join the Princeton Association of New York City and the Association of Black Princeton Alumni (ABPA) for an evening with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the New York City Center.

PANYC has purchased a block of tickets and has arranged for a pre-performance discussion with Thomas Cott '83, Director of Marketing for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

The program will feature three ballets:

Love Stories: Love Stories, Judith Jamison's dynamic collaboration with hip-hop pioneer Rennie Harris and modern dance maverick Robert Battle, was inspired by Sankofa, the Akan word which means "go back" (Sanko) and "take" (fa).

Among Us: (Private Spaces: Public Spaces): Characters from all walks of life come together in Judith Jamison’s new collection of vignettes examining the joys and complications of human relationships. Original jazz compositions by the musical iconoclast Eric Lewis and costumes by the award-winning designer Paul Tazewell are inspired by a series of Jamison’s own drawings that depict these characters’ ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives.

Suite Otis: Otis Redding’s sassy, sizzling music sets the stage for George Faison’s playful battle of the sexes. The yearning sensuality of such timeless songs as “Satisfaction,” “Try a Little Tenderness,” “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” and other favorites bursts through this sexy, charming and witty suite.





Thomas Cott '83 is the Director of Marketing for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Over the last 26 years, he has had a diverse range of jobs in the performing arts and humanities – as a producer, artistic director, marketer, arts educator and management consultant. He has worked on about 120 plays and musicals – including over 50 Broadway shows and over 60 shows in off-Broadway and regional theaters. He was a founding staff member of Lincoln Center Theater and, over its first 18 seasons, helped to establish it as one of America's leading nonprofit arts organizations. More recently, he worked on the reinvention of two other Lincoln Center constituents, The Metropolitan Opera and New York City Opera. As an independent producer and management consultant, his clients have included The New 42nd Street, The New York Public Library, Paper Mill Playhouse, and Theater Development Fund. Thomas has taught or guest lectured on arts-related issues at Yale, Columbia, NYU, Fordham, and Marymount. He has also been part of the evaluation or selection process for the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop, the Jonathan Larson Foundation, the NAMT Festival of New Musicals and the New York Musical Theater Festival. He is currently a member of the Nominating Committee for the Tony Awards. For more information, please visit ThomasCott.com.

This event is a continuation of PANYC's "Princeton Alumni in Performing Arts" series, which was founded in 2001 and is curated by Susan Jonas '81 and Jean Telljohann '81 to celebrate Princeton alumni working in the performing arts, to increase support of the performing arts among Princeton alumni audiences, and to raise the profile of the arts as a critical and joyous part of the examined life for the individual and the culture. To date the series has featured the work of alumni dancers, choreographers, composers, playwrights, directors, arts administrators, and offered audiences the opportunity to get an insider's view by meeting with alumni in the performing arts. If you have an event you would like considered, please contact Susan Jonas and Jean Telljohann at 81arts (at) panycweb.org.

WHEN: Thursday, December 10, 2009. Discussion with Thomas Cott at 7:00PM, Performance at 8:00PM.
WHERE: New York City Center (West 55th St., bet. 6th and 7th Ave.)