Sara Mearns | Artists at the Center

About

Sara Mearns, principal dancer at New York City Ballet (NYCB), “has a power and command that few share” (The New York Times), and has established herself as an adventurous artist, unafraid to delve into vastly different genres. Mearns makes her curatorial debut in City Center’s fourth Artists at the Center program, which provides dance artists a platform for creative exploration and experimentation.

The program begins with Don’t Go Home, a world premiere work co-created by renowned choreographer Guillaume Côté and Canadian actor/writer Jonathon Young. Dancing alongside NYCB soloist Gilbert Bolden III, Mearns explores the myriad challenges faced by an artist preparing for a role, and the often-blurred boundary between performer and self. 

In the second half of the program, Mearns dances in a world premiere by Bessie Award winner Jamar Roberts set to live music by Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary classical composer Caroline Shaw. Roberts takes the stage alongside Mearns, Jeroboam Bozeman, Ghrai DeVore-Stokes, and Anna Greenberg in a love letter to dance and those who dedicate their lives to its craft. This celebration of the dualities of beauty and struggle, success and failure, is a tribute to the ephemeral nature of dance and the immense effort it asks of artists.

Programming subject to change
Photo by Sarah Silver / Trunk Archive

Don't Go Home was developed as part of the Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence program.