Friday, February 6 6:00PM and Saturday, February 7, 2026 12:00PM and 3:00PM
Philadelphia Art Museum | 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA 19130
Join us at Philadelphia Art Museum to watch Philadelphia Ballet artists perform Connection, choreographed by Juliano Nunes, in the Great Stair Hall!
The Saturday 12:00PM program will also feature a panel as part of Philadelphia Ballet’s costume collaboration with Moore College of Art & Design. Guests are welcome to join a pre-panel reception in the Exhibition Hall from 10:30-11:00AM, followed by a panel discussion in the Education Center from 10:30AM-11:30AM. Panelists will include Jennifer Tierney, Philadelphia Ballet Wardrobe Manager, Cathy Young, Moore College President, Morgan Porter, Moore College Fashion Design Faculty, and Cindy Lozito, Muralist, Illustrator, and PhAM Teaching Artist.
FREE event included with PhAM admission. Tickets for museum entry can be purchased the day of the event. Space is limited for the Costume Collaboration panel.
Connection
Choreography Juliano Nunes
Music Ezio Bosso
Costume Design Hogan McLaughlin
Choreographer
Juliano Nunes
Juliano Nunes trained at the Brazilian Dance Conservatory in Rio de Janeiro, Juliano Nunes (b.1990) furthered his studies at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts in Germany with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. Joining Companies such as Royal Ballet of Flanders, Leipzig Opera Ballet, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and Stuttgart Gauthier Dance.
He has worked with choreographers such as William Forsythe, Christopher Wheeldon, Hans van Manen, Jirí Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Yuri Grigorovich, Akram Kahn and among others.
He has gone on to receive critical acclaim for his own choreography and has created pieces for the Royal Ballet in London, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theatre 2, Rome Opera House, Acosta Danza, Philadelphia Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre, Ballet Zürich Opera House, Ballet Jazz de Montreal, Staatstheater Hannover, Atlanta Ballet, Ballet West, Origen Festival Cultural, Teatro San Carlo, and Netflix’s “ Tiny Pretty Things.” Nunes has created visual works with artists such as Penelope Cruz, Residente, and FKA twigs.
Costume Collaboration Panelists
and Moderator
Morgan Porter
Panelist
Morgan Porter holds a BFA in theatre design and technology from the University of South Dakota and currently resides in Philadelphia as a freelance costume designer, technician and educator. Examples of Porter’s work can be found on stage during the 2023 season at Opera Philadelphia’s O23 festival and at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theater.
Cathy Young
Moderator
Cathy Young is the eleventh president of Moore College of Art & Design. She brings more than 35 years of experience as a choreographer, arts educator, academic leader, and entrepreneurial artist to her role at the nation’s first and only historically all-women’s college for art and design
She earned her BA in sociology and women’s studies magna cum laude from Harvard University, where she was first exposed to dance as an art form. Young spent the next 20 years building a national and international career as a dancer, choreographer, artistic director and dance educator. She returned to academia to earn her MFA in dance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and became a tenured associate professor of dance at Ursinus College, where she cofounded the dance program, and chaired the Theater and Dance Department.
From 2011–2017, Young led the dance division at Boston Conservatory as dean. Her emphasis on diversity, innovation, collaboration and community as core values attracted the top students, faculty, and guest artists in the field.
In 2017, Young was named to the dual role of senior vice president of Berklee and executive director of Boston Conservatory at Berklee, following a national search to replace the former president, and charged with leading the Conservatory through the highly complex merger with Berklee College of Music.
In February 2022, Young was unanimously confirmed as president by Moore College of Art & Design’s Board of Trustees, following a comprehensive national search led by a 13-member, Board-appointed search committee. She officially joined the Moore community on June 30, 2022.
Cindy Lozito
Panelist
Cindy Lozito is a muralist, illustrator, and teaching artist based in Philadelphia, originally from Queens, New York. Her work is rooted in drawing and painting, which she explores through scales as small as comics to as massive as building-wide murals. Her first illustrated book, What Kind of Queen? A Royal Biography of Drag Queen and Activist José Sarria comes out with Abrams Books in April 2026. Her artwork has appeared in the World Trade Center, New York Times, NYC Health + Hospitals, and LA Times. Lozito co-teaches the Philadelphia Art Museum’s Teen Sketch program alongside Andrew Chirstman.