According to the staff, the Kennedy Center released its dance programming team on Thursday and was confirmed by the center.
“Three persons have been terminated,” Roma Daravis, a spokesman for Kennedy Center, said by email. “We will soon have an interesting message about a new direction of dance programming.”
The release is vaguely leaving the future of the performance genre, which is an Arts local subscription engine.
Jane Raleigh was the director of the dance programming responsible for the main stage dance programs, the director of the Millennium Stage EVENTS and the BALLET subscription series. On Friday’s report, Raleigh praised his colleagues and “relationships with artists, educators, students and patrons who believe we have the best interests.”
“Although I was told that my dismissal was due to the ‘I lost confidence in your management’, I think this shooting would be revenge for the support of my society for the union organization in the center,” added Raleigh.
Mallory Miller, assistant to the dance programming director and one of the organizers leading the efforts of Kennedy Center staff, confirmed that her work had been terminated.
“I am very proud of the two years of work I have done. It was a great job with my great team,” Miller said, adding that she is “particularly proud” to form a union. “And I think our shooting today proves why we need it.”
After the dismissal of the dance programming team, Tony Yoon, the senior filmmaker of the center, resigned. In the email viewed by The Washington Post In a letter, he wrote, “I no longer have an intolerance to the unmanaged shooting of colleagues who built this great office.”
Kennedy Center staff were large after February. President Donald Trump took over the center. Sales data shared with a record in June. (The institution stated that the annual comparison was not accurate.) First of all, the dance package is no longer the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, a reliable pleasure of the crowd of last seasons.
At least 50 employees withdrew from the institution, although many employees have stated well more than 100. Employees were so reduced that employees are lent to other departments for special events, several employees say.
Social impact, government relations and social media teams were one of the first reductions this spring. Leaders and artists associated with the center resigned since brief takeover, starting with art advisers Ben Folds and Renée Fleming.
Last week, Jeffrey Finn, senior vice president of art programming, as well as vice president and executive producer of the Center theater, who programmed his tourist Broadway show, including Hamilton, resigned from the center. He will continue the consultant, the center said. Finn refused to comment.
Matthew Winer, producer of the internal Kennedy Center Honors, has recently resigned from the center with the producer and Honorary Manager Emeline Carlisle.
Last month, composer and pianist Jason Moran resigned as artistic director of the Jazz Center. The reason for his resignation is unclear. Instagram wrote on Instagram: “The 14 -year -old has invited thousands of artists to share their work with the audience.” He also thanked the “incredible staff who gave the artists from negotiations to the party.”
Miller said she sees the reduction of staff programming as a form of censorship. “Artistic fuel is a form of expression and it is worth being protected by the first amendment,” she said. “And what they do is our ability to use art, create a community, and tell stories that make us better people.”
Many employees say they learn about layoffs through news reports, not through the company.
Other changes are taking place. On Wednesday, the center removed part of the art screen called “China Red” from glass panels in two main corridors, the Nations Hall and the States Hall. On Tuesday, she announced her employees to remove email. By pointing out the installation as a “red graph”.
The screen created by Hong Kong artist Tim Yip, who won an Oscar for the best artistic direction for his work in 2000. In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, he was the rest of the installation, made as part of the Month Month Chinese Festival.
Based on the YIP website, the exposition “inspired by traditional paper cutting and a favorable nature of red in Chinese culture”, containing headlines and “sophisticated cut out the input paths of the State Hall and Nations.
The center management did not provide an explanation of its employees about removal. Neither the center nor YIP responded to the requests to comment on the removal of the work.