On Our Toes in The Hamptons

Evidence, A Dance Company Board of Directors.

Two Saturdays ago, The Honorable Bernard Jackson and his wife Joyce Mullins Jackson played host to 300 guests at their Watermill estate for the 6th Annual On Our Toes in The Hamptons featuring and benefitting Ronald K. Brown’s world acclaimed Evidence, A Dance Company.

Alicia Bythewood of Sag Harbor, New York and Palm Beach the event chair welcomed guests. Ms. Bythewood and her husband Dan took a moment to toast the very energetic committee which included, Reginald Van Lee, b Michael, Gail Monroe Perry, Harriet Michel, Brian and Mira Mullins, Ronald K. Brown, Donna Williams. Reginald Van Lee, Neil R. Lowe, Joyce Mullins-Jackson, Reggie Canal, Leslie Mays, Zaid Abdul-Aleem, Dwayne Ashley, Monica F. Azare, Joanne E. Hill, Andrea Hoffman, Sandra D. Jackson-Dumont, James Sullivan, Jocelyn Taylor, Dr. Ancy Verdier and Lisa B. Walker.

By the pool

b michael, Donna Williams, Ada Bordas, Dan and Brie Bythewood, and Mira and Brian Mullins

Pouring over the luxurious items on the silent auction tables were First Lady of New York Michelle Paterson, award winning actress Lynn Whitfield, Jean and Martin Shafiroff, Christian Dior president Stephane Barraque, Caroline Lieberman, and longtime supporter Noel Hankin of Moet Hennessey among others. Select auction items are also still on line available for bidding www.CharityBuzz.com [1].

Ronald K. Brown with Evidence, A Dance Company

For their final performance, dancers Tiffany Quinn, Clarice Young, Arcell Cabuag, and Otis Donovan Herring performed an excerpt from the powerful “Walking Out The Dark” choreographed by Ronald K. Brown; with live music performed by Farai Malianga and costumes by Carolyn Meckha Cherry. The piece was co-commissioned by the American Dance Festival.

Walk Out the Dark, performed by Evidence, A Dance Company

Among the guests: The Ground Crew founder Audrey Smaltz, Gail Marquis, Bryce Kennard up from Houston, Tracey Webb and Jacqueline Davis, Brad Lerman, Prince Kunle Omilana and Princess Keisha Omilana of Nigeria, Brie Bythewood and Alicia Rodriguez, Copper Cunningham, Audrey J. Bernard. Joanne Hill with Shawn Thomas, Allison and Eric Johnson, Jennifer Liu and Gerald Cooper, Donna Williams, Clinton Haynes and Felicia Daniels, Meghan Birdwell and Brian Beller and Cortez Charles with Lisa Farrow.

Alicia Bythewood and Rene Syler

Jean Shafiroff and Lynn Whitfield

Copper Cunnigham and Audrey J. Bernard

Allison and Eric Johnson

Allison Moxley and Arcell Cabuag

Andrea Hoffman and Bruce Michael

Brie and Alicia Bythewood

Joyce Jackson, Bernard Jackson, and Jocelyn Taylor

Audrey Smaltz, Ken Smaltz, and Gail Marquis

Rene Syler, Reggie Van Lee, and Alicia Bythewood

Noel Hankin, Susan L. Taylor, and Stephane Barraque

New York's First Lady Michelle Paterson and Lynn Whitfield

Kimma Reed

Margaret Morton and Barry Cozier

Prince Kunle Omilana and Princess Keisha Omilana

Shawn Thomas and Joanne Hill

Dan Bythewood, Alicia Bythewood, and Brie Bythewood

Stefanie Taylor and Michelle Bell

Lisa Manne, Bruce Michael, and Joanne Hill

Susan L. Taylor and Khephra Burns

Mira Mullins, Lynn Whitfield, John Wegorzewski, Alicia Bythewood, and Michelle Paterson

Photographs by Rob Rich

Guests joined hosts Joan and George Hornig at their Water Mill estate for the first annual Hamptons EcoSalon.

More than 120 guests attended including Lorraine Bracco, James Lipton and Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and were treated to an environmentally focused program led by Van Jones, President Obama’s Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on the Council on Environmental Quality in the White House.

Christie Brinkley and Hamilton Fish

Etienne Charles, Ben Williams, and James Shipp keep the crowd moving

Van was introduced by EcoSalon supporters Christie Brinkley and Alex Matthiessen. Guests had the opportunity to explore environmental issues during a Q&A session with Van before the evening wound down.

Uder the tent for a Q&A session with Van Jones.

George Hornig welcomes the guests

Dinner scene on the porch

A number of guests stayed on to enjoy further discussion and a sumptuous family style meal of organic, locally supplied trout, sea bass and duck.

The idea behind the EcoSalon is to connect top environmental policy makers with thought leaders in the fields of politics, science, the arts, business and entertainment and to spend an evening sharing perspectives on many of our most challenging issues.

Joan Hornig and Etienne Charles

Ann Daulin and Stephanie Wahlgreen

Marit Larson and Adam Sobel

April Trigg, Alex Matthiessen, and Van Jones

Deric Bradford, Margeaux Guerard, and Lorraine Bracco

Bill and Amy Goldsmith

Van Jones, Hamilton Fish, and Nisa Geller

Diedre Wallace and Jared Carney

Elizabeth Rogoff and Keith Rosenbloom

Kate Hagerman and Alex Matthiessen

Kedakai Turner and James Lipton

Chris Gale, Lori Laub, and Christine and Jim Gray

Anne Hearst McInerney and Alison Mazzola

Marissa Bronfman and George Hornig

Hornigs and Schwartz-Schuttes

Bryna and Bevin Butler

Anne Jameson and Jay Eisenhofer

Kareen Abdul-Jabbar and Kim Marlowe

Hamliton Fish and Joan Hornig

Ralph Destino Jr., Kate Kennedy, and Beth Amorosi

Christie Brinkley, Alex Matthiessen, Kate Hagerman, and Lorraine Bracco

Nicholas Eisenberger

Nisa Geller, Cynthia Ryan, and Jeff Tannenbaum

Landon Slane and Bailey Gimbel

Karin Holstein and Marissa Bronfman

Lewis Perkins and Ann Colley

Katrina Duplessy and Lysbet Rogers

Mindy Moak, Elizabeth Stallman, and Christie Brinkley

Charles Stain

Jennifer Ephraim and Kerry Mertlick

Paul and Jill Poplin

Christy Brinkley and Sarah Beatty, Founder of Green Depot

Photographs by Ann Watt

Tory Burch recently hosted a shopping event to benefit her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. Co-hosting the event were Andy Porter, Dean of PennGSE (UPenn's Grad School of Ed), Trustees George A. Weiss, Susan F. Danilow, and Lee Spelman Doty, along with Jennifer Saul, Diane N. Weiss, Dr. Reina Bassini and Emilio Bassini, Elyse Viner, Tiffany Watkins, Allison and Chip Brady. Russell Simmons, who recently hosted a shopping event with power couple Chip and Allison Brady at Tory's East Hampton store to benefit RushPhilanthropic.org [2], also served as Honorary Co-Chair of this UPENN event.

More than one hundred University of Pennsylvania alumni and friends descended on the Tory Burch Boutique in the Meatpacking District to network, shop, and support the launch of an exclusive new UPenn networking group of future Penn leaders entitled Penn Pacesetters.

Guests were provided with a 10% discount on all sales and Tory donated 10% of all sales that evening to support a scholarship at Penn's Graduate School of Education (PennGSE). From sponsorship, alumni donors, and sales from the event, approximately $20,000 was raised for the scholarship.

Andy Porter, Dean of PennGSE, Tory Burch, and Allison and Chip Brady

Tory -- C'88 -- was one of the first to arrive. She was going to do a brief meet and greet with the guests, but was having such a good time, that she delayed her exit and mingled for almost the entire event. Guests scooped up Tory's Caecey clutches and Bria velvet and bamboo pumps.

In between trying on purses and shoes, guests discussed the state of education in New York City and Philadelphia, President Obama's Stimulus Package, and Penn's Homecoming in November. Among the event committee members were Marc and Courtney Portlock, Matt Maitland, Amir Rozwadowski, David J. Thompson, Jr., Gus Lipman, PennGSE's Alexis Wolson, and Faquiry Diaz and Amelia Balonek from the Penn Club of Miami. Joining them were Jill Kushner, Sameer Sethna, Lissa Guttman, Aleta Spitaleri, Abby Zimmerman, Caroline Waxler, Jasmin Rosemberg, Bobbi Rebell Kaufman, Carineh Martin, Deborah H. Lee, Stephanie J. Weiss, real estate mavens Samantha Kleier Forbes and Sabrina Kleier Morgenstern and non-Penn friends and fashionistas Jules Kirby, Linda Argila, and Alison Minton.