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Performance Anxiety
The season’s charity circuit was in full swing when the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center threw its first annual spring ball, sponsored by Bulgari. Jamie Niven called a live auction for the crowd, which included Muffie Potter Aston, Jennifer Creel, Christine Schwarzman and Grace Hightower, before Natasha Bedingfield took to the stage in the Plaza Hotel ballroom. The audience was decidedly upper-crust, but they weren’t exactly the singer’s demographic. “I have no idea who she is,” said Jamee Gregory with a laugh. “We are all so out of it.”
The week before, American Ballet Theatre held its yearly spring gala, sponsored by Nina Ricci and Graff. Cochairs Olivier Theyskens, Tory Burch, Susan Fales-Hill and Anne Grauso marveled at Irina Dvorovenko’s pas de deux in Splendid Isolation III. It even prompted some guests to admit to dance aspirations of their own. “I wanted to be a modern-dance choreographer when I was 18,” recalled Sigourney Weaver at the tented dinner afterward outside the Metropolitan Opera House. “But all my friends who were in ballet had no money.”
A few weeks earlier Hope Atherton, Bob Colacello, Larry Gagosian and Aby Rosen gathered for cocktails at Lever House in honor of artist Tom Sachs, whose Hello Kitty sculptures stand in the building’s glass lobby. “He designed a rattle for our baby using dimes that are melded together,” Samantha Rosen said of Sachs. “It’s really cool.”
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