The Kennedy Center: Little Dancer with Susan Stroman

Inspired by the ballerina who posed for the famed Edgar Degas sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1879–81), this new musical follows the young dancer Marie Van Goethem as she struggles in the Paris Opera Ballet and inadvertently becomes the world’s most recognized dancer. Excerpts will be performed by four-time Tony Award–winner Boyd Gaines, three-time Tony Award–nominee Rebecca Luker, and New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck. Director and choreographer Susan Stroman will participate in a moderated discussion with Lynn Ahrens (book and lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music).

The audience is invited to arrive early and stay late to view Degas’s Dancers in Green and Yellow (Danseuses vertes et jauntes), ca. 1903, from the Guggenheim’s permanent collection, from 6:30–7:30 pm and 8:45–9:30 pm in the Thannhauser Gallery.