Each performance includes a dance group from the eastern, central and western United States, offering a full range of the country’s dance talent, many of which are rare visitors to the nation’s capital. “It is an honor for the Company to have been invited to join these renowned companies for Ballet Across America,” says Artistic Director Roy Kaiser, “and it’s a great way to cap off a spectacular season that also included our appearance at Manhattan’s City Center.”

The Company will present Jerome Robbins’s In the Night, which premiered to Philadelphia audiences in October 2006 in a tribute program to the late choreographer which The Philadelphia Inquirer called “triumphal,” and of In the Night said it was “richly complex and coherent.” In the Night is a series of romantic pas de deux in which the three couples explore different phases of their relationships through the soul of Frederick Chopin’s nocturnes. Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) became world famous as a choreographer of ballets created for the New York City Ballet, Ballets U.S.A., American Ballet Theatre and other international companies. He was a director of musicals, plays, movies and television programs.

It has been said that no choreographer has so epitomized the American scene. He contributed a great body of superb work to dance culture, represented all over the world, and in the continuous performances of musicals during the last thirty-five years. Robbins was one of the luminaries celebrated during the 1981 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony, awarded annually in recognition of lifetime achievement in the performing arts. -- www.paballet.org