Works & Process,
the Performing-Arts Series at the
Guggenheim,
Announces Fall 2018 Season

Highlights:
The only New York preview of Akram Khan’s Giselle with the English National Ballet
“Lost” Jerome Robbins solo reconstructed by Peter Boal on the Pacific Northwest Ballet, in celebration of Robbins’s centennial
An inside look at the movie Bel Canto’s music with Renée Fleming, David Majzlin, Elena Park, and Anthony Weintraub 
New music commission by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Conrad Tao, and Charles Wuorinen
Peter & the Wolf with Isaac Mizrahi

“An exceptional opportunity to understand something of the creative process” 
-The New York Times

(NEW YORK, NY – August 2, 2018)-Works & Process at the Guggenheim is pleased to announce its fall 2018 season, which includes new dance and music commissions, and a gala featuring a revival performance of a Works & Process Rotunda Project in the Guggenheim’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed space. Since 1984 the performing-arts series has championed new works and offered audiences unprecedented access to leading choreographers, composers, dancers, musicians, and playwrights, among others. Programs explore the creative process through stimulating discussions with artists and riveting performance highlights. Each 70-minute program takes place in the museum’s Peter B. Lewis Theater unless otherwise noted. Additional information is available at worksandprocess.org.
 
Lead funding for Works & Process is provided by The Florence Gould Foundation, The Christian Humann Foundation, Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Evelyn Sharp Foundation, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Fall 2018 Season Schedule
Emma Portner with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago / Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion, and Anne Plamondon
Sunday and Monday, September 9 and 10, 7:30 pm
Emma Portner, described by Dance Spirit as a young choreographer “changing the dance world,” shares highlights from her upcoming Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC) commission with new music by Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange) performed by Third Coast Percussion, and from her duet with Anne Plamondon, commissioned by Fall for Dance North (FFDN), prior to their respective premieres in Chicago and Toronto. Portner also screens her newest dance film, FEMME DEBOUT commissioned by Fondation Beyeler on the occasion of their exhibition Bacon-Giacometti. As part of the program, Portner, Plamondon and HSDC artistic director Glenn Edgerton will discuss their collaboration in a discussion moderated by FFDN artistic director Ilter Ibrahimof.
 
Bel Canto: Inside the Music
Renée Fleming, David Majzlin, Anthony Weintraub, and Elena Park
Sunday, September 16, 7:30 pm
For the new film Bel Canto, based on Ann Patchett’s award-winning novel, Renée Fleming provides the soprano voice of Roxane Coss (Julianne Moore), the renowned diva who is swept up, along with wealthy Japanese industrialist Katsumi Hosokawa (Ken Watanabe), in a lengthy hostage crisis in a South American country. This dramatic love story, directed by Paul Weitz (who also cowrote the screenplay), unfolds with an arresting score that features original music by David Majzlin and classic opera arias. Fleming and Majzlin join Bel Canto’s Anthony Weintraub (producer/co-screenwriter) and Elena Park (music producer) to talk about the creation of the movie and the musical choices. Performers (to be announced) stage several excerpts from Bel Canto, which debuts in theaters September 14.
 
The Metropolitan Opera: Marnie
Peter Gelb, Nico Muhly, and Michael Mayer
Monday, October 1, 7:30 pm
Prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s premiere of composer Nico Muhly’s Marnie-a gripping reimagining of Winston Graham’s novel, set in the 1950s, about a beautiful, mysterious young woman who assumes multiple identities-Met General Manager Peter Gelb leads a panel discussion with Muhly and director Michael Mayer. Members of the cast perform highlights from the opera.
 
Pacific Northwest Ballet
Jerome Robbins Centennial Celebration: Male Solos with Peter Boal
Tuesday and Wednesday, October 2 and 3, 7:30 pm
Peter Boal, Artistic Director of Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) and former Principal Dancer of New York City Ballet, is joined by dancers from PNB to illustrate and perform male solos by acclaimed choreographer Jerome Robbins on the occasion of Robbins’s centennial this year. Boal reconstructs a “lost” solo created for him by Robbins, among other works danced by members of PNB.
 
American Ballet Theatre: Jessica Lang
Sunday and Monday, October 7 and 8, 7:30 pm
Since 1940 American Ballet Theatre (ABT) has been a home for emerging choreographers and artists. This season, as part of the ABT Women’s Movement initiative, choreographer Jessica Lang teams up with artist Sarah Crowner, who will design the scenery and costumes for Lang’s third work for the company. Join Lang, moderator John Meehan, and dancers from ABT for an intimate evening prior to the ballet’s premiere.
 
New York Theatre Workshop: Hurricane Diane
Madeleine George
Monday, October 15, 7:30 pm
Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George and cast members Becca Blackwell, Nikiya Mathis, Danielle Skraastad, and Kate Wetherhead present highlights from George’s new work Hurricane Diane, coproduced with WP Theater and directed by Leigh Silverman. The production features Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm and supernatural abilities owing to her true identity-the Greek god Dionysus. Diane returns to the modern world to restore the Earth to its natural state, taking to her suburban New Jersey cul-de-sac, and leading a bacchanalian catharsis with her neighboring suburban housewives. 
 
St. Ann’s Warehouse and Eva Price
Bard SummerScape Production: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
Monday, October 22, 7:30 pm
Director Daniel Fish and choreographer John Heginbotham discuss their fresh and daring reimagining of Oklahoma! Prior to the production’s New York City premiere at St. Ann’s Warehouse, 75 years after the classic musical’s Broadway debut, cast members perform highlights, and the duo talk about making the iconic musical in today’s America.
 
WORKS & PROCESS DANCE COMMISSION PREVIEW
Caleb Teicher & Co with Conrad Tao: More Forever
Sunday, October 28, 7:30pm
Caleb Teicher & Company have teamed up with Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Conrad Tao to create their first evening-length work, More Forever, to premiere in January 2019 at Works & Process. On a stage filled with a thin layer of sand, dancers explore American dance traditions such as vernacular jazz, tap, and Lindy Hop, set to Tao’s new contemporary score for piano and electronics. 
 
MUSIC COMMISSION
Charles Wuorinen at 80 with Goeyvaerts String Trio
Monday, October 29, 7:30 pm
Celebrate acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen’s 80th year with the premiere of his Second String Trio-a Works & Process commission-and hisseminal String Trio from 1968, both performed by Belgium-based Goeyvaerts String Trio.
 
WORKS & PROCESS GALA
Wednesday, October 31
For one night only, see a revival performance of a Rotunda Project hailed by the New York Times as a “revelatory dance experience” in the article “The Best Dance of 2017.” 

For more information and tickets, visit worksandprocessgala.org or email ccronson@worksandprocess.org. 

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at 60
Monday, November 5, 7:30 pm
In honor of the Alivin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 60th anniversary, Artistic Director Robert Battle, Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison, and choreographer Rennie Harris join in a conversation moderated by journalist Susan Fales-Hill that spotlights what truly makes Ailey so special. Leading up to their season at New York City Center, company dancers perform highlights from signature classics and commissioned works that push dance into new territory.
 
English National Ballet: Akram Khan’s Giselle
Sunday, November 11, 7:30 pm
British Bangladeshi choreographer Akram Khan, known for his masterful works that interweave an infectious fusion of contemporary dance and Indian kathak, created a 21st-century Giselle,reimagining this epitomical classical ballet to illustrate the woes of migrant workers and powerful factory owners. The groundbreaking work recently returned for an applauded second run at Sadler’s Wells in London, and English National Ballet will bring it to Chicago’s Harris Theater for Music and Dance in 2019 for its American premiere. At theonly preview in New York of this critically acclaimed ballet, Khan’s first work featuring dancers on pointe,New York Times dance writer Marina Harssmoderates a discussion with Khan,Tamara Rojo, Artistic Director and Lead Principal Dancer of English National Ballet, Patricia Barretto, President and CEO of Harris Theater, and company dancers. Three company dancers and Rojo perform highlights.
 
Peter & the Wolf with Isaac Mizrahi
Saturdays, December 1 and 8, 1, 2:30 and 4 pm
Sundays, December 2 and 9, 2:30 and 4 pm
Friday, December 7, 6:30 pm (Works & Process Young Friends Event)
Isaac Mizrahi narrates and directs Sergei Prokofiev’s charming children’s classic, Ensemble Signal performs the music, andthe cast, wearing costumes by Mizrahi, performs choreography by John Heginbotham, bringing the 30-minute story to life for the young and young at heart. 
 
For children 5 and up. Enter via the ramp at 88th St and 5th Ave.
 
PREMIUM FRONT ROW TICKETING: $100, $95 Friends of Works & Process and Guggenheim members.
 
Holiday Concert
Sunday and Monday, December 16 and 17, 7 pm
Celebrate the season with the joyous sounds of holiday music and a new Works & Process commission by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, inspired by the Guggenheim’s exhibition Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future. George Steel conducts the Vox Vocal Ensemble in what has become a beloved annual traditionin the museum’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda.
 
FLOOR SEATING: $45, $40 Friends of Works & Process and Guggenheim members.
RAMP STANDING: $25, $20 Friends of Works & Process and Guggenheim members.

Location:       Peter B. Lewis Theater (unless otherwise noted)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street
Subway: 4, 5, 6, or Q train to 86th Street
Bus: M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus on Madison or Fifth Avenue
 
Tickets: $45, $40 members (unless otherwise noted)
$10 student rush tickets one hour before performance, based on availability
(for students under 25 with valid ID)
Priority ticket access and preferred seat selection starts August 7, 2018, for $500+ Friends of Works & Process and Guggenheim members at the Associate level and above. 
General ticketing starts August 14, 2018.
 
For more information, call 212 758 0024 or 212 423 3587, Mon-Fri, 1-5 pm, or visit worksandprocess.org.

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For more information, press tickets, and photos, or to arrange interviews, contact:
Duke Dang, General Manager
Works & Process at the Guggenheim
212 758 0024
ddang@worksandprocess.org
 
Michelle Tabnick, Publicist
Works & Process at the Guggenheim
646 765 4773
michelle@michelletabnickpr.com
 
May Yeung, Publicist
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
212 423 3840
pressoffice@guggenheim.org