Ball gowns with opera gloves, slinky sequined slip dresses and jumpsuits were trotted out on Wednesday evening as dozens of actors and guests posed in front of cameras and curious onlookers before heading into the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the New York City Ballet’s annual fall gala.
“I laid out six dresses on the bed, and this was the last one before I went into a menopausal sweat,” said Bridget Everett, the comedian, “Somebody Somewhere” actress and gala co-chair, who wore a strapless dress with vertical orange and white stripes.
The crowd included the actress Sarah Jessica Parker, a vice chair of the ballet company’s board, and her husband, the actor Matthew Broderick; the Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, accompanied by his fiancée, the writer and former ballerina Melanie Hamrick; the comedian Amy Sedaris; the drag king comedian and actor Murray Hill; and the reality star Olivia Palermo.
But there was one notable group missing from the red carpet: the company’s dancers.
In a letter sent to management, signed by the entire company, the dancers said they would boycott the red carpet and dinner portions of the event — though they would perform — because of a “lack of progress” in negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement. The previous three-year agreement, negotiated with the American Guild of Musical Artists, expired Aug. 31.
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