2009 Season

Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company

August 25 - September 27, 2009  

Christopher Wheeldon and his company, Morphoses, will descend upon the Vineyard in late August for a five week residency, their first at Vineyard Arts Project. During the residency, Wheeldon will create his new work to music from Suites for Two Pianos by Rachmaninoff, alongside Tim Harbour who is creating a new work commissioned by Morphoses to music by Ross Edwards. In addition, the Company will be rehearsing other works for the season including Alexei Ratmansky's Boléro, Paul Lightfoot and Sol León’s Softly As I Leave You, and Christopher Wheeldon's Continuum among others. Wheeldon and the company will be joined by Ratmansky, Harbour, Lightfoot and León, as well as other collaborators during the residency. The repertory will be performed by the company during its Fall 2009 season at New York City Center,  Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, and Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam. 

  Photo: Bill Cooper

Benjamin Millepied's Danses Concertantes

August 9 - August 23, 2009  

Benjamin Millepied and his company, Danses Concertantes, return to Vineyard Arts Project for a two-week residency, from August 9 – 23, 2009. In preparation for the ensemble’s tour throughout France in November and December 2009, Danses Concertantes will be rehearsing pieces include Millepied’s Closer and Without, William Forsythe’s Steptext, Without, as well as Millepied’s yet-untitled new work set to have its world premiere on November 29, 2009 at the Cannes Festival International de Danse.

Informal In-Studio Showing: Saturday, August 15, 6:30pm at Vineyard Arts Project. Reservations required. Seating is limited.  Please email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it to reserve seats.

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Musical Theatre Laboratory

  July 19 - August 7, 2009  

  Directed by Scott Wise and Elizabeth Parkinson  

Under the direction of Broadway veterans Elizabeth Parkinson (Movin’ Out, Fosse) and Scott Wise (Jerome

Robbin’s Broadway, State Fair, Fosse), Vineyard Arts Project's Musical Theatre Laboratory is an intensive

student training program, structured on the belief that studying with artists and professionals who are 

actively working in their field is an effective and inspiring way to learn and refine one's craft. Held at

Vineyard Arts Project's state-of-the-art facilities, students are immersed in dance, acting, voice, and

writing. Classes include acting, audition techniques, ballet, jazz, modern, tap, monologue study, voice,

writing, scene study, musical theatre history, and musical theatre repertory.

2009 faculty and guest teachers include Robert Bianca, Marianne Challis, Charlotte D'Amboise, MaryAnn

Lamb, Mary MacLeod, Michael Levine, Elizabeth Parkinson, Jeffrey Saver, Leland Williams, Scott Wise

and Karen Young (Jay Binder Casting). 2009 students range in age from 16-21 and hail from all over the

US, including one from Martha’s Vineyard. 

 2008 Season

Benjamin Millepied's Danses Concertantes

Professional Residency, November 8-23, 2008

“Choreography that is deft in structure, never pushing its score too far.  Serious yet light in touch, and illuminated at every moment…”

The Financial Times, September 26, 2002

As part of the new generation of the world’s most compelling choreographers, Benjamin Millepied’s work incorporates a fiery mix of contemporary and classical style.  Mr. Millepied’s chamber ensemble, Danses Concertantes, featuring eleven dancers from American Ballet Theatre and two acclaimed pianists, Pedja Muzijevic and Natasha Paremski, will be in residence at Vineyard Arts Project for two weeks in preparation for their upcoming season at New York’s Joyce Theatre, running December 9-14, 2008.  Since 2002, the company has presented work in London, New York, Sag Harbor, Lyon and Stockholm.  The repertoire for the upcoming season will include original choreography by Benjamin Millepied, classic pieces by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, and new work from Andonis Foniadakis, Aszure Barton and Luca Veggetti. 

Mr. Millepied’s recent commissions include 3 Movements (2008) for the Pacific Northwest Ballet, Triade (2008) and Amoveo (2006) for the Paris Opera Ballet, From Here on Out (2007) for American Ballet Theatre, and Petrouchka (2007) for the Ballet de Genève. Mr. Millepied has been a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet since 2001, performing featured roles in choreography by George Balanchine, Mauro Bigonzetti, Peter Martins, Alexei Ratmanski and Jerome Robbins.

 A video of Mr. Millepied’s Danse Concertantes:

For more information please visit:

Mr. Millepied’s web site:
http://www.benjaminmillepied.com/Welcome.html

Danse Concertante’s web site:
http://www.danses-concertantes.com/WELCOME.html

James Lapine's

Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing

Starring Tony Winner Debra Monk

Professional Residency, August 31- October 5, 2008

MRS. MILLER DOES HER THING is set in 1966, in the midst of the Vietnam War and the beginnings of the counter-culture movement; when an off-pitch, matronly 59 year old singer suddenly emerges at the top of the music charts winning fame as the worst pop singer of all time. Loosely based on the life of Elva Miller, this is a surprisingly contemporary look at pop culture and the public’s fleeting fancy with the novelty of the moment.

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