WORKS & PROCESS AT THE GUGGENHEIM – 2010 SPRING SEASON

Frederic Franklin

Sun, Jan 10, 7 pm (Benefit Performance) and Mon, Jan 11, 7:30 pm
Dance icon Frederic Franklin returns to open the 2010 spring Works & Process season with a special performance to benefit Works & Process on Sunday, January 10, and an additional performance on Monday, January 11. Franklin will share his thoughts on the second half of his career and the future of dance. Dancers from American Ballet Theatre will perform works that celebrate Franklin’s illustrious career. For benefit tickets ($250), call 212 758 0024.

The Art of Teaching: Participation & Perception

Sun, Jan 24, 7:30 pm
As an exciting experiment in learning by doing, Michael Sandel, the esteemed Harvard political philosopher, and Damian Woetzel, a world-renowned dancer turned director, explore the “art of teaching” in an intimate engagement with the audience. Experience that magical moment when spectators become participants, and see what art and democracy will say to one another.

Made in Naples

Sun and Mon, Feb 7 and 8, 7:30 pm
Armitage Gone! Dance performs selections from Made in Naples, a new work by acclaimed choreographer Karole Armitage, inspired by the Neapolitan character of Pulcinella. Pulcinella is known for his ever shifting nature—from bawdy to aristocratic, romantic to rebellious. The dance features sets by Karen Kilimnik, inspired by Tiepolo’s drawings, and Alba Clemente’s costumes based on the Commedia dell’Arte tradition.

Created for the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Made in Naples is produced by Napoli Teatro Festival Italia and coproduced by Armitage Gone! Dance.

Emotion & Motion

Sun and Mon, Feb 14 and 15, 7:30 pm
Two principal dancers from the internationally acclaimed Paris Opera Ballet will interpret various stages of love through dance, with discussions on lust, romantic love, and attachment by renowned anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, author of Why We Love.

Presented with the American Friends of the Paris Opera & Ballet in conjunction with the New York Academy of Sciences’ The Science of Love and Whom We Choose—An Evening with Helen Fisher on January 5, 2010.

Hypermusic: Ascension

Thu, Mar 11, 6:30 and 8:30 pm
Harvard physicist Lisa Randall, Spanish composer Héctor Parra, and artist Matthew Ritchie collaborate on a new site-specific monodrama in the rotunda, which inverts and renovates the genre of opera with an experimental score suggesting the expanding reality of a fifth dimension.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Contemplating The Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum on view Feb 12–Apr 28, 2010.

Vertical Opera [An Unrealized Project]

Sun and Mon, Apr 11 and 12, 7:30 pm
Ilya Kabakov, one of the most important Russian artists to have emerged in the 20th century, has produced an impressive collaborative body of work with his wife Emilia. Vertical Opera, one of their unrealized “Utopian Projects,” was specifically imagined for the Guggenheim’s rotunda space. The Kabakovs will discuss and present this project as a visual performance with music in the Peter B. Lewis Theater.

Icarus at the Edge of Time

Sun, Apr 25, 7:30 pm
Celebrated composer Philip Glass, renowned physicist Brian Greene, art duo Al and Al, award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, and Artistic Director of London’s Southbank Centre Jude Kelly explore the creative process behind a brand-new performance inspired by Greene’s moving futuristic reimagining of the Icarus fable. In this version, Icarus travels not to the sun but to a black hole, and in so doing poignantly dramatizes one of Einstein’s greatest insights leading to a deeper appreciation of the cosmos. A coproduction of the World Science Festival and the Southbank Centre, musical excerpts with accompanying visuals and narration will be performed prior to the world premiere on June 2, 2010, at Lincoln Center.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Sun and Mon, May 2 and 3, 7:30 pm
Visionary 20th-century German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Oberlippentanz
(Upper Lip Dance) from Licht (Light) and the American premiere of Freude (Joy) from his final and unfinished work Klang (Sound) will be performed, illuminating Stockhausen’s groundbreaking compositions. Musicians will include Matthew Harding (member of the “President’s Own” Marine Band) on trumpet, and harpists Bridget Kibbey and June Han.

American Ballet Theatre at 70

Sun and Mon, May 9 and 10, 7:30 pm
American Ballet Theatre will preview excerpts from their 70th anniversary Metropolitan Opera House season, featuring works by the ballet’s master choreographers. Company dancers will perform season excerpts interspersed with conversations with ABT’s artistic team.

Pacific Northwest Ballet: Balanchine’s Petipa

Fri and Sat, May 14 and 15, 7:30 pm
Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers and dance historian Doug Fullington demonstrate the choreography of George Balanchine as influenced by Marius Petipa and his colleagues at the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg. Dances by each choreographer sharing related structure and movement vocabulary will be performed and discussed.

Pacific Northwest Ballet will also be performing at The Joyce, January 5–10, 2010.

Nacho Duato

Mon and Tue, May 17 and 18, 7:30 pm
Hailed internationally as a major innovator in contemporary ballet, Nacho Duato is celebrating his 20th anniversary as the Artistic Director of Compañía Nacional de Danza. During the company’s only visit to New York for Duato’s anniversary tour, dancers from the company perform excerpts of his work, which synthesizes classical and modern dance with a distinctly Spanish flair and passion. Duato will participate in a discussion moderated by Juan Ignacio Vidarte, Director General of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Chief Officer for Global Strategies, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

New York City Ballet: New Dance/New Music

Sun and Mon, May 23 and 24, 7:30 pm
Showcasing New York City Ballet’s commitment to new music, Music Director Fayçal Karoui joins composer Thierry Esciach and choreographer Benjamin Millepied who will discuss their collaboration and show excerpts of the new choreography set to Esciach’s score.