Works & Process at the Guggenheim, 2012 Fall Season

[John Mallinson]

Works & Process, the Performing Arts Series at the Guggenheim 2012 Fall Season

 

Select Performances to Be Live Streamed

 

(NEW YORK, NY – August 13, 2012)

Works & Process at the Guggenheim is pleased to announce its 2012 fall season. Since 1984, the performing arts series has championed new works, offered audiences unprecedented access to leading creators and performers, and hosted receptions for the audiences and artists. Each intimate, 80-minute performance uniquely combines artistic creation and stimulating conversation and takes place in the Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed, 285-seat Peter B. Lewis Theater. A reception for the audience and artists follows most programs. Described by the New York Times as “a popular series devoted to shedding light on the creative process,” Works & Process is produced by founder Mary Sharp Cronson. Past performance highlights can be viewed at youtube.com/worksandprocess.

 

Lead funding provided by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation with additional support from The Christian Humann Foundation, Leon Levy Foundation, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

 

 

PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET

New York Season Preview

Sun, Sept 9, 7:30 pm; Mon, Sept 10, 3 and 7:30 pm

For 3 pm matinee, enter via ramp at Fifth Ave and 88th St; no reception

Pacific Northwest Ballet principals Maria Chapman, Carla Körbes, Seth Orza, and Lesley Rausch, and company dancers will perform excerpts from PNB’s upcoming City Center season and other works, including George Balanchine’s Apollo, Agon, The Four Temperaments, and Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux. Artistic Director Peter Boal will share his perspective on dancing, being coached in, and staging Apollo.

 

3 pm matinee performance (no reception): $25, $20 members

A live broadcast of this performance will be streamed on Sun, Sept 9, at ustream.tv/worksandprocess.

 

 

AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE

Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky

Sun and Mon, Sept 30 and Oct 1, 7:30 pm

Enter via ramp at Fifth Ave and 88th St

Heralded by the New York Times as the choreographer who “has arrived to revitalize ballet,” Alexei Ratmansky was named American Ballet Theatre’s Artist in Residence in 2009. Since then, he has created six works for the company, including ABT’s latest production of Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird. ABT’s renowned dancers will perform a survey of Ratmansky’s work, and Ratmansky will join members of ABT’s artistic team to discuss his career and creative process.

 

A live broadcast of this performance will be streamed on Sun, Sept 30, at ustream.tv/worksandprocess.

 

 

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA

The Tempest, directed by Robert Lepage

Mon, Oct 8, 7:30 pm

Enter via ramp at Fifth Ave and 88th St

Met artists will perform excerpts from composer Thomas Adès’s modern opera The Tempest, directed by Robert Lepage, prior to its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. Lepage, who has directed a wide range of Shakespearean works around the globe and recently staged Wagner’s four-part epic Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Met, will discuss his approach to the Bard’s “box full of magic tricks.” Met General Manager Peter Gelb will moderate the discussion.

 

A live broadcast of this performance will be streamed at ustream.tv/worksandprocess.

 

 

ROYAL DANISH BALLET

La Bayadère

Sun, Oct 21, 7:30 pm; Mon, Oct 22, 3 and 7:30 pm

Enter via ramp at Fifth Ave and 88th St

The Royal Danish Ballet celebrates the 135th anniversary of La Bayadère, long a treasure of Russian repertoire, with a new production by Artistic Director Nikolaj Hübbe, debuting this November in Copenhagen. Prior to the premiere, Hübbe will share his staging ideas, Royal Danish Ballet dancers will perform excerpts, and members of the creative team, including stage designer Richard Hudson, will discuss their creative process. This program is made possible with assistance from Arlene C. Cooper.

 

7:30 pm performances: $50, $45 members; 3 pm matinee performance (no reception): $40, $35 members

A live broadcast of this performance will be streamed on Sun, Oct 21, at ustream.tv/worksandprocess.

 

 

MINNESOTA OPERA

Doubt

Sun and Mon, Nov 4 and 5, 7:30 pm

Enter via ramp at Fifth Ave and 88th St

Works & Process will present the only New York preview of Douglas J. Cuomo’s opera Doubt, based on the Pulitzer and Tony Award–winning play by John Patrick Shanley. Excerpts will be performed and arts essayist Robert Marx will moderate a discussion with the creative team, including Cuomo, Shanley, and director Kevin Newbury, prior to the January 2013 world premiere at the Minnesota Opera.

 

A live broadcast of this performance will be streamed on Sun, Nov 4, at ustream.tv/worksandprocess.

 

 

THE RODIN PROJECT

Choreography by Russell Maliphant

Mon, Dec 3, 7:30 pm

Enter via ramp at Fifth Ave and 88th St

For one night only and prior to its Joyce Theater premiere, choreographer Russell Maliphant will share insights, film extracts, and excerpts from The Rodin Project, a Sadler’s Wells/Russell Maliphant Production, his latest commission inspired by the works of French sculptor Auguste Rodin. For this project, Maliphant draws on the high-energy talents of extraordinary performers and a commissioned score by Russian composer Alexander Zekke to create a movement vocabulary influenced by popping, breaking, and contemporary dance, which he integrates with his own language of flow, form, and dynamics.

 

$50. Ticket package includes the Works & Process Dec 3 performance and a Joyce Theater Section B ticket to a performance among the following dates: Wed, Dec 5, 7:30 pm; Thurs–Sat, Dec 6–8, 8 pm; Sun, Dec 9, 2 pm.

A live broadcast of this performance will be streamed at ustream.tv/worksandprocess.

 

 

Location: Peter B. Lewis Theater, unless otherwise noted

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street

Subway: 4, 5, 6 train to 86th Street

Bus: M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus on Madison or Fifth Avenue

 

Tickets: $35, $30 Members, unless otherwise noted

$10 Student Rush tickets available one hour prior to each performance if space allows (for students under 25 with valid ID)

 

Season tickets on sale August 13.

212 423 3587, Mon–Fri, 1–5 pm or visit worksandprocess.org.

[Bruce Wall]

Thanks so for this, John. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the educational programmes by the RB and RO in, say, the Clore could be streamed in a similar fashion so that they could reach many more peopie and share the education with many more that could not afford it. One remembers that the British companies receive many times more funding than do their American counterparts.

Edited August 13, 2012 by Meunier

[John Mallinson]

Agreed.

 

Presumably it's the Guggenheim who funds this project rather than the companies.

[now voyager]

I believe these programs are funded by Works & Process itself, which has its own board and membership organization, with some support from the City of New York.

Edited August 13, 2012 by now voyager

[alison]

Thanks so for this, John. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the educational programmes by the RB and RO in, say, the Clore could be streamed in a similar fashion so that they could reach many more peopie and share the education with many more that could not afford it.

 

Don't the ROH put pretty large chunks of their insight programmes online these days?

 

Hello, now voyager. Nice to see you in here again.

[Bruce Wall]

Do they Alison? ... How wonderful. Could you give us a link to this stream ... It would mean so much .... to, say, the 'In Conversation with' programmes? Please forgive my own personal ignorance in this regard. This is wonderful news; TRULY WONDERFUL. It so reverses much of what many of have said about these prorgammes in the past. Thanks so much for your support and keen knowledge.

Edited August 13, 2012 by Meunier

[alison]

Well, some of the In Conversations are certainly on iTunes University, or on the ROH website (or used to be, not sure if they're on the new one). I don't really pay much attention to this, so am probably not the best person to advise.

[Bruce Wall]

Hi Alison - Thanks so much - I found the iTunes University with the recordings - I did not know about them before. I have been listening all afternoon while working .... Laura Morera could have a second career as a stand-up - she's truly hilarious ...Thanks again ...

[alison]

No problem, meunier. There used to be a link to them from the old ROH website, but I'm not sure whether it's survived the transition to the new one: lots of things don't seem to have done.