This collaboration with her student dancers made me forget I was watching students.
For this occasion, Ms. Wood's company was augmented by student dancers from the college.
Understudies and student dancers will fill out the 15-member troupe in the larger works.
And so the annual benefit for the EMERGENCY FUND FOR STUDENT DANCERS is ever more crucial.
Student dancers from the County Prep High School in Jersey City will also perform.
On Thursday student dancers will perform new works by Nicolo Fonte, Adam Hougland and Robert Battle.
Mr. Obama's short performance came after student dancers doing a show for him implored him to join in.
Four student dancers in tails and white ties performed a Paul Taylor work, accompanied by percussionists from the music conservatory.
Ze'eva Cohen, head of Princeton's dance program, expects that student dancers will fill most of the roles.
Later this season, Rattle will lead "The Rite of Spring" in a former East Berlin bus depot, with a troupe of two hundred student dancers.
The Juilliard Dance Ensemble, made up of student dancers, was joined at various times by the Juilliard Theater Orchestra, the Juilliard Jazz Ensemble and the school's Mozart Singers.
