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Marvin Preston

Marvin Preston

Executive Director

Marvin Preston joined the American Repertory Ballet in September 2007. For six years beginning March 2000, Mr. Preston was the Executive Director of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. In that role, he prevented the organization’s imminent collapse. He raised the funding required and lead the largest legal battle in performing arts history, successfully defending the organization’s artistic and intellectual assets from fraudulent removal, restored full-scale operations of the school, archiving operations, and dance company, built new facilities, and re-established the quality and pricing power of the Martha Graham brand.

Mr. Preston is the owner and president of NewMarkets, a firm providing management consulting, advisory services, and hands-on management. Mr. Preston’s firm produces business assessments and business plans for start-up companies, re-starts, turn-around companies, work-outs, and divisions of medium-sized companies.

Mr. Preston brings over 40 years of successful business experience involving marketing and finance as well as board memberships in a wide variety of organizations. He has an extensive background in software systems and product development. Mr. Preston has an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, and a BS in Mathematics, from the University of Michigan.

 
Graham Lustig

Graham Lustig

Artistic Director

An internationally recognized director and choreographer whose work has been performed on four continents, Graham Lustig has been Artistic Director of American Repertory Ballet and ARB’s Princeton Ballet School since 1999. Since joining he has introduced numerous new ballets to American Repertory Ballet by choreographers such as Twyla Tharp, Dominique Dumais, Val Caniparoli and Kirk Peterson.

In 2001 Mr. Lustig launched Dancing Through The Ceiling, a groundbreaking initiative dedicated to showcasing the work of classically based women choreographers .To date, 12 new ballets have been commissioned. Many of his own productions further contribute to American Repertory Ballet’s repertoire including The Nutcracker, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Beauty and the Beast – A Gothic Romance. For ARB’s Princeton Ballet School he has choreographed productions of Don Quixote, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty.

Mr. Lustig has also directed and choreographed for opera, theatre and film, including Eugene Onegin, Cleveland Opera, Aida, Boheme Opera of New Jersey, Carmen, Princeton Festival, plus collaborations with Christopher Nupen on the biographical film, Tchaikovsky’s Women, and with Robert Allen Ackerman on the award-winning production of When She Danced starring Vanessa Redgrave.

Formerly dancing as a soloist with both Dutch National Ballet and Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, Mr. Lustig performed a diverse selection of leading roles in works by Ashton, McMillan, De Valois, Cranko and van Dantzig, as well as Balanchine’s Prodigal Son, Profiteer in Kurt Joos’s Green Table, Willie Mossop in Bintley’s Hobson’s Choice and Fokine’s Petrushka.

Since joining American Repertory Ballet, Mr. Lustig has been actively engaged in a variety of collaborations in the New Jersey community including DANCE POWER, a program that teaches dance to every New Brunswick School third-grader. Mr. Lustig is a charter member of the Artists Council for Americans for the Arts and has served numerous times as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. In the 2008-2009 season his premieres include Fanfare for Singapore Dance Theatre, Between Stillness for Louisville Ballet, Shadows in the Attic for American Repertory Ballet and West Side Story, which he both directed and choreographed, for Boheme Opera of New Jersey. His ballet Evening will be featured in the upcoming Singapore Arts Festival.

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