Talk about moves like Jagger!
While the Rolling Stones gear up for their blockbuster 2019 stadium tour, there’s a ballet set to Stones music coming to New York — with music curated by Mick Jagger himself.
Jagger’s currently spending the holidays with his top-ballerina girlfriend, Melanie Hamrick, and their son, Dev, 2.
And dance sources told us that Hamrick — who just wrapped her role in the American Ballet Theatre’s “The Nutcracker” — is now focusing her attention on a new ballet she’s created and set to Stones tunes, with Jagger’s collaboration.
The source explained, “Melanie’s taking a leave of absence from American Ballet Theatre until the spring season. The glamorous ballerina is focusing on choreographing her first ballet — an original piece set to Rolling Stones music, edited by Mick Jagger, with selections from ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want,’ ‘Paint It Black’ and ‘She’s a Rainbow.’ ”
We hear that the Stones-influenced dance piece will premiere in March at the Mariinsky Theatre’s ballet festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. The work will then have its US debut on April 18 at a gala for the vaunted Youth America Grand Prix at Lincoln Center.
Celebrating its 20th year, the YAGP is the world’s biggest student ballet scholarship audition, and is known for its Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow gala event in New York.
Two days later, the Stones will hit US stadiums in 2019 for their No Filter tour, beginning April 20 at Hard Rock Stadium in Florida. It’s their first extended run of US shows since 2015, and includes two gigs at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, on June 13 and 17.
Jagger’s said of the plan: “When you go out in front of all those people, you get an enormous rush of chemicals in your body — your own chemicals, not chemicals you’ve put in.”
Now he and Hamrick can get a ballet rush together too.