Woody Allen on Modern Dance and Museums

NO BOX SEATS FOR WOODY: For diehard dance fans, the Youth America Grand Prix is a night at Lincoln Center that is not be missed. Thursday’s Bulgari-sponsored gala was no exception with Paloma Herrera, Teresa Reichlen, Melissa Hamilton and Isabella Boylston performing at the David H. Koch Theater alongside up-and-comers in the “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow” event. The Bolshoi Ballet’s Evgenia Obraztsova and Semyon Chudin held the crowd rapt with their pas de deux from “The Pharaoh’s Daughter.” And Mariinsky Ballet’s Xander Parish drew the most laughs — in a good way — for his overachieving performance in the New York premiere of “Ballet 101.” The fashion designer B. Michael took a bow for his costumes worn by Joffrey dancers in Alexei Kremnev’s world premiere of the artistically-lit “Windy Sand.” Karen LeFrak, who wrote the music, joined him on stage, and back in her seat she had her own rooting section in friends Soon-Yi Previn and Woody Allen. During the YAGP intermission, the director chatted with fans of his own genre. As it turned out, the New Yorker is a bit of a modern dance buff, having studied with the late Martha Graham. “But I was not very

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