Sara Mullally, Sarah Hoover and Kennedy Smith. Michelle Kammerman/BFA.com

Among the VIP-charged parties we didn’t get around to gushing about last week was the 2025 Youth America Grand Prix gala—The Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow—which, in a perfect pirouette of providence, took place on this year’s International Dance Day. As always, the evening unfolded in glittering, glamorous form, overseen this time by TV personality Andy Cohen (whom someone that night apparently dubbed “the Baryshnikov of Bravo”) and YAGP alumna, choreographer and former ABT dancer Melanie Hamrick—the fact that she’s Mick Jagger’s fiancée probably deserves a mention.

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Unfolding first in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the evening honored Sarah Hoover, the arts advocate and former gallerist whose devotion to cultural leadership and next-gen talent has become her calling card. In brief: she co-founded ABT’s Accelerator Committee and fundraises tirelessly for everything from Twyla Tharp’s Diamond Jubilee tour to the New York City Ballet, though you might be more familiar with Hoover, the author. “Sarah is devoted to ballet and the arts,” Hamrick told the crowd before turning toward Hoover and adding, “Sarah, I am proud to call you a friend.”

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Among those there to celebrate The Motherload author and to support YAGP were boldface types like Chelsea Clinton, who arrived with two of her children and needs no introduction, designer Zac Posen, actor and writer Harrison Ball, former Observer columnist and Sex in the City creator Candace Bushnell, Jagger progeny Lucas Jagger, star editor Amy Astley, arts philanthropist Andrew Martin-Webber and producer Jenni Pulos, among many others.

But the performers were the real stars of the evening: Lucia Lacarra and Matthew Golding debuted a U.S. premiere choreographed by Golding and Edwaard Liang, while

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