Chanel celebrated the fifth annual BAAND Together Dance Festival on Tuesday evening with a cocktail party, ahead of the first performance. Held at Tatiana, the award-winning Lincoln Center restaurant, the party was attended by Misty Copeland, Thelma Golden, Krissy Jones, Barbara Bush, Bella Massenet, Antwaun Sargent, Lily Mortimer, Flynn McGarry, Amanda Burkett, Cecile Winckler, Tyler Mitchell, Caitlin Donovan, Lauren Tabach, Minty Mellon, Emily Grace, Sarah Daoui, Beatrice Hardy, Michal Kurtis, Steve Zehden, Diva Smith, Twyla Hatt & Ryder Kramer, Violetta Komyshan and more.

BAAND Together Dance Festival was started in 2021 in response to the shutdown of live performance during the pandemic. It unites five of New York’s most famous dance companies — Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem — together on one stage at Lincoln Center to celebrate dance. BAAND Together will run until Saturday as part of  Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City.

“This is the fifth anniversary of BAAND. It’s a very special number for everyone involved, including Chanel, which has made this program possible since the start and whose support of dance has continued for over a century,” said Shanta Thake, the chief artistic officer of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

The performances featured are Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Nyman String Quartet No. 2 by Robert Garland; New York City Ballet’s After the Rain (Pas de Deux) by Christopher Wheeldon; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Many Angels by Lar Lubovitch; American Ballet Theatre’s Midnight Pas de Deux by Susan Jaffe and Ballet Hispánico’s House of Mad’moiselle by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa.