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Repertory

Difference Between

COMPANIES

CHOREOGRAPHER

WORLD PREMIERE

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: New York City Center, 2025

MUSIC

Heather Christian & the Arbornauts

COSTUMES

Karen Young

LIGHTING DESIGN

Brandon Stirling Baker

RUN TIME

  • 22 minutes

Matthew Neenan’s choreographic debut with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater features his signature wild abandon and gestural playfulness. Acclaimed singer and composer Heather Christian (a 2025 MacArthur Foundation fellow) contributes her raw power to an intricate world of strange tensions, potent griefs, and quiet loves. 

"Difference between. Deference, reverence, sever its shoots on the bean
Sanity, brevity, bravery, levity— these are the virtues
are any restored or recorded or 
pored over once the romance of it leaves?” 

-Heather Christian, “Tomorrow” 

See It Live

MUSIC CREDITS

“Holy Roller”, “Sip o Water”, “Machu Picchu”, “Tomorrow”, “The End (Whatever)”, “That’s the Truth”, and “The Wicked” rights administered by Kobalt Music Publishing. 

FUNDERS

The world premiere of Difference Between is supported by The Pamela D. Zilly and John H. Schaefer New Works Endowment Fund and The Fred Eychaner New Works Endowment Fund.