All In

Principals
Aran Bell, Robert Fairchild, James Gilmer, Jacquelin Harris, Sara Mearns, Roman Mejia, Tiler Peck, Cassandra Trenary

Ensemble
Brady Farrar, Savannah Kristich, Zoe Liebold, Jaiden Galan Roman, Alycia Williams, William Woodward

Ensemble Understudies

J’var Martin, Gabrielle Rembert

All In references three duets – Cornbread (2021), Second Duet (2021), and Pergolesi (1993) – as well as new material for six young dancers, stars of tomorrow.

All In was the closing piece of the Twyla Now program, which helped open New York City Center after its year-and-a-half COVID-19 shutdown.

From the original program: “‘TWYLA NOW closes with an ensemble piece set to Brahms Op. 120 for piano and clarinet. The principal couples return, accompanied by a retinue of six talented young competitive dancers, and reprise and reconfigure elements that appear throughout the program. Brahms has always been important to Tharp. “He’s both the end and the beginning,” as she puts it: the end of the high classical tradition, and at the cliff’s edge of atonality. In hindsight, Tharp thinks she escaped the anxiety of influence that nearly crippled Brahms—so squashed by Beethoven’s genius he didn’t dare to write his own symphonies until he was in his forties—by never knowing quite enough, at the time, to be intimidated by anyone. Back in the sixties, living in her shower-less loft on Franklin Street, ‘I had no idea about what the avant-garde was,’ Tharp says. ‘I don’t even know if I had heard of Graham when I came to New York. I didn’t come bearing baggage.’ Brahms is both an inspiration and a warning for any aspiring Tharp: know what you’re doing, but not enough to doubt you should be doing it.’ – Written by Jamie Fisher

Support for new dance works at City Center is provided by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.”