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Inside YAGP’s 2026 Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow Gala

The gala was, as always, a case study in ballet’s rare ability to bring together the best of Broadway, fashion, Hollywood and philanthropy without losing sight of the young talent at its center.

Year after year, the Youth America Grand Prix gala fills the David H. Koch Theater with the kind of cross-sector guest list that only ballet can conjure. This year’s Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow Gala drew more than 300 guests to the grand Promenade for a an evening of dinner and dancing overseen by creative chair Marcella Guarino Hymowitz (wife of billionaire Gregg S. Hymowitz) and co-chaired by entrepreneur Jordana Blitz, fitness influencer Isaac Boots, Natasha Caronna, Colleen Crivello, Courtney Davis, Dotty Giordano, Aly Gradone, author Sarah Hoover, Lindsay Kraus, Jennifer Lipschultz, Josephine Lee, Kamie Lightburn, Jeffrey O'Brecht, Samantha Pariente, Amanda Perrin, Grace Brea Pomeranc, Emily Reifel, Priya Shukla, Eliza Stein, Daniela W. Tisch, Barbara Tober, Virginia W. Tomenson, Lesley Thompson Vecsler, Rachel Wexler and board chair Lina Wallach.

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Hosting the evening was Misty Copeland, the trailblazing former American Ballet Theatre principal who remains one of the most recognizable names in dance, with Tamar Greene, Broadway’s longest-running George Washington in Hamilton. Before the night was out, Greene would bring down........

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