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opening season 2024

“time to protect our planet – vildwerk. season 2024 October 15th &16th, 2024, Theatre of the Museo del Barrio, New York City. Works by Chistopher Wheeldon, Gianna Reisen, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Joshua Beamish, Mara Galeazzi, Henning Rübsam and Briana J. Reed celebrate the beauty and fragility of our planet. Featuring artists from The Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet,The Martha Graham Dance Company, Buglisi Dance Theater, Complexions, LA Dance Project and others.

Click to read our program booklet of season 2024's program Time to Protect Our Planet

inaugural gala dinner

May 1st, 2023, The Bowery Hotel, New York City Dinner Chairman Christopher Wheeldon, OBE welcomed guests to an evening allowing a small glance into what is yet to come in 2024 at vildwerk.’s first season. The gala featured a world premiere by choreographer Joshua Beamish entitled The Golden Tortoise, performed by Mara Galeazzi with music by Felipe Perez Santiago in tribute to the Ploughshare Tortoise. One the rarest species of tortoise on the planet and native to Madagascar, it has almost been poached to extinction with fewer than 150 left in the wild, which are sold for up to six figure sums on the black market as so-called “status symbols”. Standing next to a nearly extinct ploughshare tortoise, joining the Gala by video, was Turtle Conservancy Founder, Eric Goode. Conservation legend Re:Wild’s CCO, Professor Russell Mittermeier, and Turtle Conservancy’s Senior Scientist, Professor James Juvik, worked with Beamish during the choreographic creation process of the solo and addressed guests with insights from the field. The evening also featured performances by cellists of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Dorothea and Rafael Figueroa. After a video message from David K. Israel, they performed his Windansea, a classical piece by Jean-Baptiste Barriere, and then Dying Swan by Charles-Camille Saint-Saens, joined on the piano by Amber Salladin. Amber, Co-Artistic Director of Inspire – Chorus for Unity, also conducted Grow Little Tree, sang by 7 young vocal artists, accompanied by 9-year-old Anton Figueroa at the keyboard and Cassandra Longville, dancing a piece choreographed by former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater star, Briana J. Reed.

Open Rehearsal The Golden Tortoise

April 28, 2023 at Gibney Studios

Choreographer Joshua Beamish and Principal Dancer Mara Galeazzi in rehearsal for The Golden Tortoise. A solo created to raise awareness and in honor of the almost extinct Ploughshare Tortoise of Madagascar. To learn more about one of the world's most trafficked animals click here and support Turtle Conservancy and its partner organizations.