Ballet Hispanico's 2015 Spring Gala honored Cuban civic leaders. The event, which had a theme of “Noche Cubana,” took place in March at the Plaza Hotel's Grand Ballroom in New York and featured performances by the Ballet Hispanico Company as well as other entertainers.
Also at the 2009 gala, performers dressed as pregnant women opened papier-mâché bellies to reveal tiny puppet shows.
As guests arrived to the 2010 event, performers wearing giant fists cheered them on and shouted "ooh" and "aah."
On highboy tables throughout the general receptions space, unusual centerpieces included flowers and bits of machinery sprouting from patches of grass. Other tables held jars filled with tiny winged ladders.
With the "Teapot Libation Machine," a Redmoon performer wore a metal backpack with an extended arm that held a porcelain teapot at its end. The teapot, mechanically operated by a switch on the performer's wrist, poured cocktails into guests' glasses.
The 2014 Watermill Center benefit was held in the Hamptons. At the entrance of the artful affair, Christina Sotirpolou's "369w" vignette featured headpieces made from cardboard, steel mesh, and stockings.
