by Ilena Peng | Dec 9, 2021 | Onstage, The Latest
In early 2020, while choreographer Jeremy McQueen was visiting The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, a photograph caught his eye. It shows a young Black boy in a narrow cell. He faces a wall covered in sketches, like one of a spaceship beaming down next to the...
by Julia Guiheen | Aug 11, 2019 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights. The Joyce Theater Ballet Festival Gets the Royal Treatment The Joyce Theater’s Ballet Festival, curated by a team of colleagues from The Royal Ballet, continues this week....
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jul 2, 2018 | Career, Profiles
In 2016, choreographer Jeremy McQueen founded the Black Iris Project with the aim of bringing together predominantly minority dancers each summer to create works that celebrate diversity and black history. This year, he’s mixing it up. In honor of South African...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Apr 20, 2017 | News
Misty Copeland’s dancing and Justin Peck’s choreography have graced stages around the world. Now, these two stars will test themselves as curators. This year, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, DC, features their respective...
by Amy Brandt | Jul 26, 2016 | Company Life
For the past few months, a new ballet collaborative called the Black Iris Project has steadily gained momentum. Founded by choreographer Jeremy McQueen, the project brings together dancers of color from different companies to perform original works about the black...