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 Frolicking and rollicking
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Peter Martins and students at the School of American Ballet's Winter Ball 2009 at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center. |
Monday night was The Winter Ball of the School of the American Ballet, a dinner dance held annually on the Promenade of the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. Monday night’s was a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the School by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein who also founded the New York City Ballet.
The idea was to first create the school and then create the company from it. This they did. They officially started on January 2, 1934. The first year they had 32 students. Peter Martins said on Monday night that they got their first students by going out on the street and picking them out/recruiting them. Whether or not that is true, it serves fable fortunately. This year the School has 350 students and is considered the premiere ballet school in America. |
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Liz Peek, Robert Fribourg, Effie Fribourg, Coco Kopelman, Nicolas Luchsinger, and Pamela Joyner |
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Miss USA Crystle Stewart, Zang Toi, and Lucia Hwong Gordon |
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Jock Soto |
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Monday night’s ball brought out the fashionable ladies. Interestingly the younger set is even more fashionable now than the older set with many of the girls taking on the state designer’s statement with the an artfulness.
Zang Toi was one of the evening’s sponsors, the main one being Van Cleef and Arpels. It was Claude Arpels who several decades ago inspired Mr. Balanchine a ballet, so the company’s sponsorship has a historical relationship to the School. |
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Stacey Bendet Eisner |
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Chelsea Clinton and Lesley Thompson |
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Adam Hendrickson and Rebecca Krohn |
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Alexis Tobin |
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Anne Byers, Jill Kargman, and Elizabeth Miller |
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Lori Johnson, Pablo Papageorgiou, and Anne Marie Myers |
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Alexandra Lebenthal and Jay Diamond |
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Adrianna Ching, Rosalina Lydster, Miss USA Crystle Stewart, and Lucia Hwong Gordon |
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Sylvester and Gillian Miniter |
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Lee Anderson, Liz Armstrong, and Lindsey Armstrong |
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Kate Davidson Hudson |
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Gillian Murphy, Jessica Torok, Madeline Kramer, and Jodie Kantor |
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Chris von Strasser, Katie von Strasser, Elizabeth Miller, and Richard Miller |
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Moby and Elena Allen |
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Susan Fales-Hill and Desiree Rogers (White House Social Secretary) |
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Jeff Peek and Margie Vandercook |
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Arie Kopelman, Coco Kopelman, Sara Mearns, and Amar Ramasar |
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Penn Badgley, Blake Lively, and Nicolas Luchsinger |
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Harry and Jill Kargman |
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Genevieve Labean |
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Lisa and Dick Cashin |
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Lauren Murphy and Noreen Ahmad |
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Peter Martins, Darci Kistler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Talicia Martins |
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Rachel McGregor, Vanessa Sergeon, and Dr. Michelle Giuffrid |
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Sunday night at Restaurant Daniel, the man himself, Daniel Boulud hosted what has become an annual fundraising dinner for Citymeals-on-Wheels.
This year’s dinner was titled “Black Truffles, Blue Jeans, Burgundy Blues.” It was called for 5:30 on what was an ehhh Sunday afternoon looking like rain maybe. |
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Daniel Humm, Sirio Maccioni, Daniel Boulud, Bob Grimes, and Michel Troisgros |
The costume on the invite was clear: jeans. So everyone knows that it’s No Effort; Just Get Yourself Down to Daniel’s and for that you’ll get an incredible meal, with great wines if that’s what you’re into, a good group with good wishes and a party that takes no effort on your part.
This is what happened.
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Georgette Farkas, Alison Buckley, Katy Leibold, Beth Shapiro, Katina Pappas, and Heather Gere |
They raised almost five hundred thousand dollars. Jamie Ritchie of Sotheby’s conducted a rollicking auction of luxury trips (Paris, San Fran, Aspen, etc.), Sirio Maccioni was feted (and roasted by his host who was once his chef).
Among the crowd: Chris and Francesca Beale, Cathleen Black, Mickey Boulud, Joe and Rochelle Cohen, Donald and Barbara Tober, Julian and Lisa Niccolini, Jimmy Finkelstein and Pamela Gross, Susan Zises Green, Rosalyn and Eliot Jaffe, Carl and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Egi Maccioni, Mauro Maccioni, Jonathan and Lizzie Tisch, Debra and Jerry Shriver, Lilian Vernon, Lally Weymouth, Joe Cohen, Danny and Audrey Meyer, Samantha and Aby Rosen, Ron Delsener, the lady herself, Gael Greene, and a cast of hundreds gourmet revelers. |
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Amber Renfro, Rich Kravic, Beverly Telepan, and Bill Telepan |
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Payal and Dipu Mehta |
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Bonnie and Frank Pratt |
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Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Elliott Jaffe, and Roslyn Jaffe |
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Bill King, Laurie Zeller, and Leslie King |
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Betty Levin and Joe Cohen |
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Bruce Teitelbaum and Sonya Starr |
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Carl Spielvogel, Dana Stoddard, and Craig Stoddard |
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Audrey and Danny Meyer |
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Anne Cohen and Julian Niccolini |
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Aby Rosen and Samantha Boardman Rosen |
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Bill Telepan, Daniel Boulud, Deb Shriver, and Tom Harvey |
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David Patrick Columbia and Barbara Tober |
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Candace Leeds |
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Daniel Boulud and gang |
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Diana Diamond, Suri Kasirer, Dr. John H. Alschuler, Jr., and Lisa Rosenblum |
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Tom Harvey and Cathie Black |
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Daniel and Micky Boulud |
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Daniel Humm, Georgette Farkas, Julian Niccolini, and Lisa Niccolini |
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Daniel Rice, Antoinette Borromeo, and Lauren Spiegel |
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Evelyn Lipper and Lally Weymouth |
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Emmanuelle and Jamie Ritchie |
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Joe Cohen, Lally Weymouth, and Mauro Maccioni |
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George and Jeri Sape |
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Herbie Buarte and Sean Renfro |
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Cynthia and Jeff Penney |
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Myron and Marcia Stein |
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Francine Farkas Sears and Benjamin Sears |
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Irving and Yetta Geszel |
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Jamie Ritchie |
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Jonathan and Lizzie Tisch |
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Karim Soltani, Isabelle Vritout, Payal Mehta, and Dipu Mehta |
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Ellen Leep and Michael Sherrow |
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Harvey and Pauline Radler |
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Judy Zipp, Meredith Goldman, and Ellen Grimes |
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Lillian and Paolo Martino |
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Egi and Sirio Maccioni |
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Isabel and German Ferrando |
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Ron Delsener and Georgette Farkas |
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Lisa Niccolini, Ray Javdan, Mindy Kobrin, and Julian Niccolini |
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Lisa Rosenblum, Suri Kasirer, and Sonya Starr |
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Susan Zises Green, David Patrick Columbia, and Georgette Farkas |
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Nancy Moonves and Richard Kandel |
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Lizzie Tisch, Joe Cohen, and Samantha Boardman Rosen |
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Taylor Thompson and Jill Donenfeld |
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Joyce Buchman |
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Linda Kasen, Gavin Kasen, and Jeanine Humm |
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Francesca Beale and Bruce Teitelbaum |
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Roxanne and Roger Taylor |
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Just south of Houston Street on the Lower East Side stands a beautiful structure known as the Orensanz Foundation, or as some of us fondly call, The Armory II. This neo-gothic building, which was designed as a synagogue in 1849, was purchased by artist Angel Orensanz in 1986, first for his own art studio and then as a cultural center and beacon of education. A Spanish-born painter, sculptor and performance artist Orensanz is internationally known, particularly in Europe, for more than 40 years. He has produced highly personal art ranging from large and complex abstract sculptures in materials as varied as glass, ceramics and metal, to representational works on paper. He has also produced large-scale environmental installations in rural and urban settings as well as highly theatrical performance pieces - all documented in photographic and video images. Angel's art is compelling and fun for all ages and tastes.
To celebrate Armory Art Week’s Soho Night, the Foundation held a reception on March 5th featuring an installation performance in which Orensanz transformed the space through the use of light. Titled "matter/light" - light projected from the second story balcony which encircles the main space and light trapped into electric fields that depart from all the angles of the space creating a field of energy and matter-energy.
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As guests arrived, they removed their shoes and became part of the art experience. They walked barefoot through a forest of LED sculptured shafts of projections over the floor which operated as an inverted dome of moving light on to the large installation of the 120 suspended cylinder sculptures cascading over the immense floor. Visitors made their way up to the second floor, and while sipping cocktails walked around the perimeter viewing the transparent picture gallery, as well as having a bird's eye view of the sculpture and the projected images below which were swirling in slow moving waves.
International guests and friends in attendance included: Dr. Sherrill Kazan and Dr. Noel Brown, from World Council of Peoples for the UN, Vladimir Luzgin and Yuri Aduroakhmanov (Moscow), Alexander Tugolve (Bilorrusia), Leonid Laianitsky (photographer of Barishnikoff), Gregory Gurevitch (St. Petersburg), Eugene Zubkov and Andrei Harskhufha (Moscow), John Schly, writer Lynn Nicholas, Architect Dr. Frank Godlewski, Art Collector Jean Cherqui (Paris), Artist Grigory Gurevich, Clif de Raita, Bruce Michael, Editor Mila Andre (The NY Daily News), Associated Press correspondent Warren Levinson, Iris Gordon Rossi and Joan Cavanaugh.
— Ann Watt |
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Angel and Al Orensanz |
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Angel Orensanz and Manuel Jimenez |
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Mila Andre |
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Andres Barabes, Brendan McPhaer, Chaves Washington, and Joseph Hodgan |
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Christopher Dreher and Klara Palotai |
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Clif De Raita and Bruce Michael |
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Dr. D'Angelo and Lola Warbshey |
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Sarah Sharon and Dani Miltenberger |
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Daniel Hirsmeyer and Richard Lovering |
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Ramona Flood and Sherrill Kazan |
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Adriana Varella and Denise Kohatan |
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Elizabeth Gallardo and Kate Kraczon |
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Iris Gordon Rossi |
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Vladimir Luzgin, Alexander Toubolets, and Grigory Gurevitch |
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Curator Chavisa Woods with artist Itziar Barrio |
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Dr. Noel Brown and Tamara Cricolia |
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Associated Press Warren Levinson, Novelist Deborah Galant, and Architect Frank Gerard Golewsky |
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