Happenings

NYCB's 2011 Annual Luncheon Benefit Chairmen Sue Ann Weinberg, William H. Wright II, Yesim Philip, Susan Tabak, Donya Bommer, and Darren Henault

Last Wednesday, the New York City Ballet held its Annual Luncheon benefit at Lincoln Center. This year they celebrated director/choreographer Susan Stroman with a special one-time only program called “Susan Stroman: Dance on Stage & Screen.” The event showcased Ms. Stroman’s career and included dance excerpts performed by the New York City Ballet, film clips, archival footage, as well as the lady herself.

As part of the annual luncheon, is the announcement of the recipient of the Janice Levin Dancer Award which was created in 2000 by the NYCB and is bestowed on one of the Company’s most promising corps members. This year’s recipient was Anthony Huxley.

Tiler Peck, Sara Mearns, and Amar Ramasar in Susan Stroman's newest work for New York City Ballet, Frankie and Johnny... and Rose

George McNeely of Christie’s conducted an auction after the program. The décor was provided by Bill Tansey and catering by David Ziff Cooking.

Benefit Chairs were Donya Bommer, Darren Henault and Michael Bassett, Yesim Philip, Susan Tabak, Sue Ann Weinberg and William Wright II.

Robert Fairchild and Savannah Lowery in Susan Stroman's Blossom Got Kissed

Among those attending were: Maria Cristina Anzola, Muffie Potter Aston, Paige Bluhdorn, Celeste Boele, Claudia Cisneros, Kristin Kennedy Clark, Margo Blutt, Ipoolita Rostagno, Liz Peek, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Neda Navab, Lisa Errico, Adelina Wong Ettelson, Fe Fendi, Nina Griscom, Julia Koch, Yaz Hernandez, Lucia Hwong-Gordon, Brooke Neidich, Pamela Joyner, Alexandra Lebenthal, Serena Lese, Denise Saul, Carol Mack, Jill Kargman, Coco Kopelman, Tiffany Moller, Whitney and Clarke Murphy, Elyse Newhouse, Susan Newhouse, Jean Shafiroff, Patricia Shiah, Barbara Slifka, Lesley Stahl, Susan Tabak, The Hon. Kimba Wood, Laura Zeckendorf, Valerie Zilkha.

Jean Shafiroff and Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos

NYCB Principal Dancers Amar Ramasar and Ashley Bouder with Susan Stroman

Benefit Chairmen Michael Bassett and Darren Henault

Fe Fendi, Mariana Zois, and Patricia Shiah

Eliot Stewart, NYCB Board member Jane Carroll, and Benefit Chairman William H. Wright II

Jill Kargman, Coco Kopelman, and Barbara Cirkva

Peggy Siegal and Julia Koch

Liz Peek and NYCB Board member David Heleniak

Adelina Wong Ettelson and Benefit Chairman Donya Bommer

Muffie Potter Aston and Gillian Miniter

Michele Gerber Klein and Alexandra Lebenthal

NYCB Executive Director Kathy Brown, NYCB Corps dancer and Janice Levin Award Honoree 2011 Anthony Huxley, NYCB Corps dancer and Janice Levin Award Honoree 2010 Katilyn Gilliland and The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation Vice-President William A. Farber

NYCB Executive Director Kathy Brown, Benefit Chairman Sue Ann Weinberg, and NYCB Board member Marie Nugent-Head

Elizabeth Weymouth, Ritchey Howe, Whitney Murphy, and Claire Svetlik Mann

This past Saturday night at the Park Avenue Armory the Lycee Francais de New York celebrated its 75th anniversary with more than 900 guests attending. The event is one of the highlights of the season for the French-American community in New York.

They honored French journalist Anne Sinclair and raised more than $1.5 million for the school. Proceeds help fund the scholarship program that currently assists 24% of the student body and also for school iniatives.

Lycee Francais de New York's 75th anniversary celebration brought out more than 900 guests at Park Avenue Armory

The Lycee is a non-profit private school here in New York with an enrollment of 1350 students of more than 50 different nationalities, running from pre-school to 12th grade.

Gala co-chairs were Camille Bidermann-Roizen, Veronique Gabai-Pinsky, Agatha Lerolle, and Kelly Rutherford.

Allison Sanbongi and Lorraine Buhannic

Camille Biderman Roizen

Annick Theze and Yve Theze

Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle

Mina Saquet and Yann Saquet

Julien Mitelberg and Kristen Mitelberg

Felicia Taylor

Eric Ripert and Sandra Ripert

Baz Luhrmann and Veronica Bulgari

Cathrine Lacaze and Isabelle Schinazi

Olivier Bottrie and Alexandra Bottrie

Philippe Lalliot and Laurence Folliot-Lalliot

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Anne Sinclair

Hugo Terrozzi and Meghan Collison

Alexander Gilkes, Agatha Lerolle, and Kelly Rutherford

Kelly Rutherford, Veronique Gabai-Pinsky, and Agatha Lerolle

Muriel Svarri

Marx Guillaume and Julien Laplante

Stephan Sajot and Irene Sajot

Patrick Moxey and Bernadette Cruz

Selima Sanaun and Catherine Malandrino

Sasha Stim and Cate Smith

Alexandra Boet and LeeAnne Henrico

Susan Fales-Hill

Ulla Parker and Bettina Zilkha

Trudi Loren

Last Thursday night at Capitale Armitage Gone! Dance, the modern dance company run by Karole Armitage, held a “happening.”

The table settings

Marina Maryenko, Barry Evans, Margie Evans, Richard Massey, Alan Kleinman==Armitage Gone! Gala Happening

Marina Maryenko, Barry Evans, Margie Evans, Richard Massey, and Alan Kleinman

Many players from the 1980's art scene and from the days that Karol Armitage made her debut as a choreographer were there including Julian Schnabel, Vita Schnabel, Peter Brant and Stephanie Seymour, David Salle, Mary Boone, Joan Buck, Ross Bleckner, Agnes Gund, Angela Westwater, Calvin Klein, Fran Lebowitz, Salman Rushdie, Hope Atherton, Olivier Sarkozy, Chiara Clemente, Stavros Niarchos.

Rajan Mamtani, Ross Bleckner, Calvin Klein, Nicolas Gruber

Rajan Mamtani, Ross Bleckner, Calvin Klein, and Nicolas Gruber

Dorothy Lichtenstein, David Salle, Michele Gerber-Klein

Dorothy Lichtenstein, David Salle, and Michele Gerber-Klein

Karole Armitage, Stephanie Seymour Brant

Karole Armitage and Stephanie Seymour Brant

Bettina Prentice

Marilyn Minter

Francesco Clemente, Andrea Clemente, Jacqueline Schnabel

Francesco Clemente, Andrea Clemente, and Jacqueline Schnabel

Julian Schnabel and Todd Eberle

Matt Kliegman and Chiara Clemente

Marcia Mishaan

Meghan Boody and Randy Polumbo

Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn

Vito Schnabel and Diego Marroquin

Virginia Johnson, Danielle Thomas, Ingrid Silva, Laveen Naidu, Lourdes Rodriguez

Virginia Johnson, Danielle Thomas, Ingrid Silva, Laveen Naidu, and Lourdes Rodriguez

Michelle Barish

Amanda Ross

Grazia D'Annunzio

Ara Arslanian, Stavros Niarchos, and Peter Brant

Julian Schnabel and Francesco Clemente

Agnes Gund and Dorothy Lichtenstein

Robert Turner, Karole Armitage, John Thomson

Robert Turner, Karole Armitage, and John Thomson

This past Sunday night at PS 122 in Manhattan, there was no Super Bowl watching but rather a “World’s Most Literary Rent Party Ever!” a fundraiser for Diana Colbert who has been diagnosed with leukemia and is being treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her husband Charles Bock, author of the novel Beautiful Children (2008), said that the $3000 a month cost of treatment would break them before the year was out unless they came up with more funds.

They sold 200 tickets at $75 each. They had a silent auction. Among the items was a pie baked by novelist Joshua Ferris; having one’s laundry done by A. M. Homes; a song written by Rick Moody, and a dog-walking by Amy Hempel “even in a blizzard.”

Claudia Gonson and Rick Moody

John Wesley Harding and the English UK

Theresa Cox, Tanya Donelly, John Wesley Harding, Rick Moody and the English UK

Anne Dennin, Peter Kayafas, Steve Dennin, Dorothy Brachmun, and John Kelly

There were performances including John Wesley Harding and musicians and readings by Mary Gaitskill and Jim Shepard; songs by Moody and singer Claudia Gonson of the Magnetic Fields.

Mr. Bock told the gathering that his wife, who is now in the hospital, was the one person who would have most enjoyed the evening, and enjoyed seeing all of their generous, caring friends at the evening.