New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck stars as young Marie in the Kennedy Center’s world premiere musical Little Dancer. Inspired by Edgar Degas’s world-famous sculpture “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,” the musical also stars Rebecca Luker (Adult Marie) and Boyd Gaines (Edgar Degas), with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty, and direction by Susan Stroman. Little Dancer plays the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater, October 25-November 30, 2014.
Hear what Susan Stroman has to say about the work in her interview with Dance Informa here.