There was some party politics Wednesday night as the city’s top ballet dancers skipped their own bash as part of an industrial action campaign.
Tutus were in a twist at the New York City Ballet’s glitzy Fall Gala at Lincoln Center as dancers and stage managers boycotted parts of the evening as they a battle company bosses over pay.
As stars like Sarah Jessica Parker (who is vice chair of the NYCB’s board of directors), Julia Fox, Nicole Ari Parker, and Helena Christensen posed for pictures, the drama brewed backstage as the dancers revealed that they’d be skipping the red carpet and the fancy post-show fête.
Just a half hour before patrons arrived at the David H. Koch Center members of the American Guild of Musical Artists union, which represents the dancers, announced the revolt en re