PINE PLAINS, N.Y. — The Mashomack Fish & Game Preserve Club, a few hours’ drive north of New York City, is not the natural habitat of dancers, at least not of members of New York City Ballet and the Martha Graham Dance Company. The occasion, on Friday evening, was the premiere by BalletCollective of “Natural History,” a new work by Troy Schumacher, a City Ballet soloist who has long presented his choreography through the independently run collective, which he founded in 2010. City Ballet has been all-digital since March and will stay that way through the fall. If the current members of BalletCollective — five from City Ballet, two from Graham — were going to dance in person, they would have to find a way themselves. This preserve and upscale hunting club is in horse country, with stables and a polo club nearby.

Source: New York Times September 13, 2020 19:41 UTC