Music School Festival Orchestra, School of Dance students combine power of their artforms in evening filled with tributes to late Chautauqua dance luminaries

Students of the Chautauqua School of Dance and the Music School Festival Orchestra — under the baton of 2025 David Effron Conducting Fellow Hannah Schendel — perform “Grand Waltz” choreographed by Sasha Janes and Kara Wilkes with music from Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty on Monday in the Amphitheater.

Students perform the bluegrass ballet “Shindig,” choreographed by the late Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, the former artistic director of the School of Dance.

School of Dance students perform “We Danced Through Life,” a ballet commissioned by the late Terrie Vaile Hauck and choreographed by Janes, the Bonnefoux McBride Artistic Director of the School of Dance.

School of Dance students perform “We Danced Through Life."

Stanley Cannon and Bess Millard perform Balanchine’s “Serenade,” staged by Patricia McBride.

School of Dance students perform “Serenade.”