Meg Booth is the director of Dance Programming for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. As director of Dance Programming, Booth oversees the presentation of at least seven weeks of world class ballet and multiple premiere modern and contemporary dance companies each year, including Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Royal Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet, New York City Ballet, Paul Taylor Dance Company, and Shen Wei Dance Arts. She also oversees the Local Dance Commissioning Project which supports the creation of two or three new works within the local dance community each year. In her tenure as director of Dance Programming, the Kennedy Center Dance Program has produced critically acclaimed festivals, such as Ballet Across America, a celebration of the breadth of artistry in ballet companies across the United States and Protégés: The International Ballet Festival, a showcase of the world’s most prestigious ballet academies and their distinctive styles of training.
In addition, Booth serves as director of The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, the Kennedy Center’s own ballet company under the artistic direction of Suzanne Farrell. Having recently celebrated its tenth anniversary season, the highly lauded company performs works by Farrell’s mentors: Balanchine, Robbins, Bejart, and through the Balanchine Preservation Initiative has reconstructed and preserved many Balanchine ballets not seen in decades.
Booth participated in the Kennedy Center’s Arts Management Fellows Program (2003), and went on to serve as a marketing manager of the Center for three years. Prior to joining the Kennedy Center she worked as general manager of Twyla Tharp Dance and company manager of White Oak Dance Project under the direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Booth
has a BFA degree from the University of Notre Dame.
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