![]() ![]() Erich Salomon Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh)". Arlene Shuler, the president and chief executive of New York City Center, a historic home for dance that hosts the accessible and popular Fall for Dance festival, has announced that she will step down at the end of the 2021-22 season this summer. “It was an enormously difficult decision to make, because I am passionate about the work and love the institution,” Shuler said in a telephone interview. “But all organizations benefit from new perspectives, and I will have been there 19 years. Shuler has a long history with City Center. At 13, she danced there, as the young lead in “The Nutcracker,” with New York City Ballet. ![]() Later, as a member of the Joffrey Ballet, she performed frequently at the theater, a neo-Moorish building, built in 1923 as a meeting hall for the Shriners, and dedicated by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1943 as Manhattan’s first major performing arts center. “It felt like coming home,” Shuler said, of taking the job at City Center, in 2003. Before that, Shuler, who received a law degree from Columbia University, held senior positions at several arts-related organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and the Howard Gilman Foundation.ĭavid Hallberg, the former Ballet Theater principal who has performed in Fall for Dance and is now on City Center’s board, said that Shuler had been a mentor to him. ![]()
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