Live Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Miguel Gutierrez
I as another (New York Premiere)
May 4-6, Thu-Sat at 7:30PM
May 7, Sun at 2PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
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Virtual Presentation
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern + Emilie Leriche
One & One Other (Virtual World Premiere)
FREE / Available to watch Monday, April 10 at 5PM through Monday, April 24 at 5PM
BAC Digital
Live Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Eunbi Kim & Xuan
it feels like a dream (World Premiere)
Feb 23, Thu at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
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Live Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
AMOC* (American Modern Opera Company)
How to Fall Apart (New York Premiere)
Feb 10 + 11, Fri + Sat at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
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Past Live Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Israel Galván
SOLO
Jan 23 + 24, Mon + Tue at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Running time: 50 minutes

When advance tickets are no longer available, a wait list will begin at the Box Office one hour prior to show time on the day of the performance. In the event of last minute cancellations, seats may be released and sold to those on the wait list on a first-come, first-served basis.
Past Live Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Vertigo Dance Company
PARDES (N.Y. Premiere)
Jan 12 + 13, Thu + Fri at 7:30PM, Jan 14, Sat at 2PM + 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Past Live Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Tere O'Connor
Rivulets (World Premiere)
WED DEC 7 at 7:30PM

THU DEC 8 at 7:30PM

FRI DEC 9 at 7:30PM

SAT DEC 10 at 7:30PM

WED DEC 14 at 7:30PM

THU DEC 15 at 7:30PM

FRI DEC 16 at 7:30PM

SAT DEC 17 at 7:30PM
Howard Gilman Performance Space
Tickets $25
Running time: 60 minutes

When advance tickets are no longer available, a wait list will begin at the Box Office one hour prior to show time on the day of the performance. In the event of last minute cancellations, seats may be released and sold to those on the wait list on a first-come, first-served basis.
Past Live Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Boris Berman
Works by Valentin Silvestrov
THU DEC 1 at 7:30PM
Tickets $25
Running time: 60 minutes
Past Installation
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Jennifer Tipton
Our Days and Night (World Premiere)
THU NOV 17 at 7:30PM

FRI NOV 18 at 7:30PM

SAT NOV 19 at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Running time: 50 minutes

When advance tickets are no longer available, a wait list will begin at the Box Office one hour prior to show time on the day of the performance. In the event of last minute cancellations, seats may be released and sold to those on the wait list on a first-come, first-served basis.
Past Presentation
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Unavailable Memory: In Conversation with Cunningham & Cage
(World Premiere)
THU OCT 27 at 7:30PM

FRI OCT 28 at 7:30PM

SAT Oct 29 at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Running time: 60 minutes

When advance tickets are no longer available, a wait list will begin at the Box Office one hour prior to show time on the day of the performance. In the event of last minute cancellations, seats may be released and sold to those on the wait list on a first-come, first-served basis.
Past Presentation
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
The Westerlies
Taking Shape (World Premiere)
WED OCT 19 at 7:30PM

THU OCT 20 at 7:30PM
Howard Gilman Performance Space
Tickets $20
Running time: 60 Minutes
Past Presentation
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Owls
MON OCT 17 at 7:30PM

TUE OCT 18 at 7:30PM
Howard Gilman Performance Space
Tickets $20
Running time: 65 Minutes
Past IN-PERSON PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
BAC Open House
JUN 29 / WED
Tickets Free
We look forward to seeing you!
Past IN-PERSON PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center and The Chocolate Factory Theater Co-Present
Donna Uchizono Company
Wings of Iron (World Premiere)
MAY 18-21, WED-SAT at 7:30PM
Howard Gilman Performance Space
Tickets $25
Running time: 80 minutes

Proof of full vaccination is required and face masks must be worn at all times at BAC.

When advance tickets are no longer available, a wait list will begin at the Box Office one hour prior to show time on the day of the performance. In the event of last minute cancellations, seats may be released and sold to those on the wait list on a first-come, first-served basis.
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Omar Román De Jesús
World Premiere
FREE
Available to watch Apr 25-May 9
Mon 5PM ET until Mon 5PM ET
BACNYC.ORG
Running time: 60 minutes
Past IN-PERSON PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Ashwini Ramaswamy
Let the Crows Come (New York Premiere)
APR 13-15, WED-FRI at 8PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Running time: 60 minutes

Proof of full vaccination is required and face masks must be worn at all times at BAC.
Past IN-PERSON PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Andy Akiho: Seven Pillars
Sandbox Percussion
NY Premiere
APR 7 + 8, THU + FRI at 8PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Running time: 80 minutes

Proof of full vaccination is required and face masks must be worn at all times at BAC.
Past IN-PERSON PRESENTATION
The Board of Directors of Baryshnikov Arts Center invites you to:
Stravinsky Reimagined (World Premiere)
Directed + Choreographed by Jennifer Weber
Featuring Tiler Peck + Brooklyn Mack
MON APR 4 at 7PM
Jerome Robbins Theater and Howard Gilman Performance Space
Proceeds from the 2022 World Premiere Benefit Performance will support BAC's artist-centered programs.
Past IN-PERSON PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Johnny Gandelsman
This is America
MAR 16 + 17, WED + THU at 7:30PM
Howard Gilman Performance Space
Tickets $20
Running time: 60 minutes

Proof of full vaccination is required and face masks must be worn at all times at BAC.
Past IN-PERSON PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Chromic Duo
Homecoming: love you all ways
MAR 14 + 15, MON + TUE at 7:30PM
Howard Gilman Performance Space
Tickets $20
Running time: 60 minutes

Proof of full vaccination is required and face masks must be worn at all times at BAC.
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Peggy Baker
her body as words (New York Premiere)
FREE
Available to watch Feb 28-Mar 14
Mon 5PM ET until Mon 5PM ET
BACNYC.ORG
Running time: 51 minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Philippe Petit
Open Practice (New York City Premiere)
FREE
Available to watch Feb 7-21
Mon 5PM ET until Mon 5PM ET
BACNYC.ORG
Tickets FREE
Running time: 60 minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith
gloria rehearsal (excerpt)
World Premiere commissioned by BAC
FREE

Available to watch Jan 10-24

Mon 5PM ET until Mon 5PM ET
Tickets Free / Registration Required
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Ella Rothschild
Pigulim
FREE

Available to watch Dec 13-23

Mon 5PM ET until Thu 5PM ET
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
In Conversation: Jordan Demetrius Lloyd with Benedict Nguyễn
FREE / Dec 8, Wed at 5PM ET

Registration Required
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Jordan Demetrius Lloyd
Trip Gloss
World Premiere commissioned by BAC
FREE

Available to watch Nov 29-Dec 13

Mon 5PM ET until Mon 5PM ET
Running Time: 20 Minutes
Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
In Conversation: Sooraj Subramaniam with Paul Singh
FREE / Nov 9, Tue at 7PM ET

Registration Required
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Sooraj Subramaniam
Other Places of Being
World Premiere commissioned by BAC
FREE

Available to watch Nov 1-15

Mon 5PM ET until Mon 5PM ET
Running Time: 25 Minutes
Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
In Conversation: River L. Ramirez with Morgan Bassichis
Live on ZOOM
FREE / Oct 26, Tue at 7PM ET

Registration Required
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
River L. Ramirez
GhostFolk
World Premiere commissioned by BAC
FREE

Available to watch Oct 18-Nov 1

Mon 5PM ET until Mon 5PM ET
Running Time: 40 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Mats Ek & Ana Laguna
Whilst & My Letter
World Premieres
FREE

Available to watch Oct 4-14

Mon 5PM ET until Thu 5PM ET
Running Time: 50 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Merce Cunningham Trust Co-Present
In Conversation with Merce
Excerpts from Merce Cunningham’s Landrover (1972)
And World Premieres by Kyle Abraham and Liz Gerring
FREE

Available to watch Sep 20-30

Mon 5PM ET until Thu 5PM ET
Running Time: 45 Minutes
Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center and Tippet Rise Art Center Co-Present
In Conversation: Aizuri Quartet
Live on ZOOM
FREE / Jun 28, Mon at 9PM ET

Registration Required
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center and Tippet Rise Art Center Co-Present
Aizuri Quartet
What’s Past is Prologue
FREE

Part 1: Streaming Jun 23-Jul 7

Part 2: Streaming Jun 30-Jul 14

Wed 5PM ET until Wed 5PM ET
Running Time
Part 2: 18 Minutes
Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
In Conversation: Kyle Marshall with Charmaine Warren
Live on ZOOM
FREE / Jun 16, Wed at 7PM ET
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Kyle Marshall
STELLAR (World Premiere)
BAC Artist Commission
FREE / Available to watch Jun 7-21, Mon 5PM ET until Mon 5PM ET
Running Time: 22 Minutes
Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
In Conversation: Tei Blow with Andrew Kircher
Live on ZOOM
FREE / May 26, Wed at 5PM ET

Registration will be available by 5PM ET on May 17
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Tei Blow
The Sprezzaturameron (World Premiere)
BAC Artist Commission
FREE / Available to watch May 17-31, Mon at 5PM ET until Mon at 5PM ET
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
In Conversation: Stefanie Batten Bland with Eva Yaa Asantewaa
Live on ZOOM
FREE / May 11, Tue at 5PM ET

Registration Required
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Stefanie Batten Bland
Kolonial (World Premiere)
BAC Artist Commission
FREE / Available to watch May 3-17, Mon at 5PM ET until Mon at 5PM ET
Running Time: 20 minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
PlayBAC: Bonobo
Tú Amarás
Performances from the Archive
FREE / Available to watch Apr 22-29, Thu at 5PM ET until Thu at 5PM ET
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
PlayBAC: BAC Salon: Szymanowski, Berio + Debussy
Tesla Quartet and Alexandra Smither, soprano
Performances from the Archive
FREE / Available to watch Apr 15-22, Thu at 5PM ET until Thu at 5PM ET
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
PlayBAC: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
Verklärte Nacht
Performances from the Archive
FREE / Available to watch Apr 8-15, Thu at 5PM ET until Thu at 5PM ET
Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
In Conversation: Holland Andrews with Morgan Bassichis
Live on ZOOM
FREE / Mar 24, Wed at 8PM ET

Registration Required
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Holland Andrews
Museum of Calm (World Premiere)
BAC Artist Commission
FREE / Available to watch Mar 15-29, Mon at 5pm ET until Mon 5PM ET
Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
In Conversation: Mariana Valencia with Ali Rosa-Salas
Live on ZOOM
FREE / Mar 10, Wed at 8PM ET

Registration Required
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Mariana Valencia
brownout (World Premiere)
BAC Artist Commission
FREE / Available to watch Mar 1-15, Mon at 5PM ET until Mon at 5PM ET
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center + Cherry Orchard Festival Foundation Co-Present
Arlekin Players Theatre
The Cherry Orchard: A New Media Workshop
FREE / Registration Required

This interactive online theater experience will be accessed via a web link provided by email on the day of the event.

Reservations are no longer available for this event.

The evening includes a live-streamed conversation with members of the cast and creative team.
Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
In Conversation: Justin Hicks with Meshell Ndegeocello
Live on ZOOM
FREE / Feb 24, Wed at 8PM ET

Registration Required
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Justin Hicks
Use Your Head For More (World Premiere)
BAC Artist Commission
FREE / Available to watch Feb 15-Mar 1, Mon at 5PM ET until Mon at 5PM ET
Running Time: 30 minutes
Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
In Conversation: Bijayini Satpathy with Mark Morris
Live on ZOOM
FREE / Feb 10, Wed at 8PM ET

Registration is required.
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Bijayini Satpathy
Vibhanga (World Premiere)
BAC Artist Commission
FREE / Available to watch Feb 1-15, Mon at 5PM ET until Mon at 5PM ET
Running Time: 14 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
PlayBAC: Performances from the Archive
Series 3
FREE / Available to watch at BACNYC.ORG/EXPLORE
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Co-presented by Baryshnikov Arts Center, Krannert Center, and ArtsEmerson, in Partnership with National Black Theatre and Salon Africana
Somi: in the absence of things
(Work-in-Progress)
FREE / Available to watch on this page until Dec 15, Tue at 5PM EST.
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
SOS (The Song of Songs) (Digital World Premiere)
FREE / Available to watch Nov 17-20, Tue at 5PM ET until Fri at 5PM ET at BACNYC.ORG/EXPLORE
Running Time: 70 Minutes

SOS is performed in Russian with English voiceover.
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center + Cherry Orchard Festival Co-Present
Arlekin Players Theatre
State vs. Natasha Banina
Live on ZOOM
OCT 12 + 14 / MON + WED at 8PM EDT
Live on ZOOM
Tickets Free / Registration Required
Performed in English

Please note: "State vs. Natasha Banina" contains strong language which may be offensive to some viewers.

Running Time: 55 Minutes followed by conversation with the artists and audience
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center, Five Boroughs Music Festival, Tippet Rise Art Center + Bay Chamber Concerts Co-Present
Coming Together (Digital World Premiere)
Quodlibet Ensemble with Reginald Mobley, countertenor
FREE / Available to watch until Nov 3, Tue at 5PM ET
Running Time: 50 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Parlor Broadcast: Raja Feather Kelly | the feath3r theory
On Zoom
JULY 23
THU at 12PM
Tickets FREE
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
PlayBAC
Performances from the Archive
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Parlor Broadcast: The Westerlies
On Zoom
MAY 1 + 8
FRI at 8 - 8:30PM
Tickets FREE
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Parlor Broadcast: Joseph Keckler
On Instagram Live
APR 17 + 24
FRI at 8 - 8:30PM
Tickets FREE
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
PlayBAC
Performances from the Archive
APR 9 - MAY 19
Tickets FREE
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Okko Theatre
July (U.S. Premiere)
Written and Directed by Ivan Viripaev
FEB 28 / FRI at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
July is performed in English.

This production contains graphic subject matter, and is recommended for mature audiences age 18 and over.

When advance tickets are no longer available, a wait list will begin at the Box Office one hour prior to show time on the day of the performance. In the event of last minute cancellations, seats may be released and sold to those on the wait list on a first-come, first-served basis.
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Bonobo
Tú Amarás (U.S. Premiere)
FEB 13-15 / THU-SAT at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Tú Amarás is performed in Spanish with English supertitles.

When advance tickets are no longer available, a wait list will begin at the Box Office one hour prior to show time on the day of the performance. In the event of last minute cancellations, seats may be released and sold to those on the wait list on a first-come, first-served basis.
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center
Phyllis Chen
Work-in-Progress
DEC 6 / FRI at 7PM + 9PM
Rudolf Nureyev Studio
Tickets $15
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Beginner's Ear
With Johnny Gandelsman + Thomas Droge
NOV 21 / THU at 7PM
John Cage & Merce Cunningham Studio
Tickets $15
Running Time: 60 Minutes

When advance tickets are no longer available, a wait list will begin at the Box Office one hour prior to show time on the day of the performance. In the event of last minute cancellations, seats may be released and sold to those on the wait list on a first-come, first-served basis.
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
BAC Space Studio Showings
NOV 15 / FRI
Tickets Free / Reservations Required
When advance tickets are no longer available, unclaimed tickets will released to the waitlist 10 minutes prior to showtime.
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center and Irish Arts Center Co-Present
Colin Dunne
Concert (U.S. Premiere)
NOV 14-16 / THU-SAT at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Running Time: 50 Minutes

When advance tickets are no longer available, a wait list will begin at the Box Office one hour prior to show time on the day of the performance. In the event of last minute cancellations, seats may be released and sold to those on the wait list on a first-come, first-served basis.
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Charles Atlas
Work-in-Progress
OCT 25 / FRI at 7PM
Rudolf Nureyev Studio
Tickets $15
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Hosts
Person Place Thing
David Neumann in Conversation
OCT 18 / FRI
7PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets Free / Reservations Required
Running Time: 70 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Dance Heginbotham
HERZ SCHMERZ (World Premiere)
OCT 10-12 / THU-SAT at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Running Time: 40 Minutes

A brief conversation with John Heginbotham and Susan Bernofsky will follow the Friday evening performance.
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Liz Gerring
Installation III: red green blue & grey (Work-in-Progress)
SEP 27 / FRI
7PM + 9PM
Rudolf Nureyev Studio
Tickets $15
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
BAC Jam Session
SEP 26 / THU
6-8PM
John Cage & Merce Cunningham Studio
Tickets Free
BAC Jam Session is an open house from 6-8PM.

Reservations are encouraged.
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Alexei Lubimov + Calidore String Quartet
Performing Haydn, Zagny, Karmanov
MAY 30 / THU at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
The Theater Doesn't Need Us: Performance and the Posthuman
Panel Discussion: Manuela Infante with Annie Dorsen
MAY 3 / FRI at 4:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets Free
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Manuela Infante
Estado Vegetal (N.Y. Premiere)
MAY 2 + 3 / THU + FRI at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Running Time: 90 Minutes

Performed in Spanish with English supertitles.

When advance tickets are no longer available, a wait list will begin at the Box Office one hour prior to show time on the day of the performance. In the event of last minute cancellations, seats may be released and sold to those on the wait list on a first-come, first-served basis.
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Hosts
YoungArts New York
YoungArts New York 2019
Apr 23 - 28, 2019

Performances @ BAC
Apr 27 / Sat at 8PM
Apr 28 / Sun at 2PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $15
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble + Adam Rosenblatt
Performing Haydn, de Mey, Lanner
APR 12 / FRI at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
BAC Space Spring 2019
Studio Showings
APR 11
Tickets
Free / Reservations Required
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Tei Blow + Laurel Atwell
Entry (Work-in-Progress)
Mar 15 / FRI
7PM + 9PM
Rudolf Nureyev Studio
Tickets $15
Running Time: 60 Minutes

When advance tickets are no longer available, a wait list will begin at the Box Office one hour prior to show time on the day of the performance. In the event of last minute cancellations, seats may be released and sold to those on the wait list on a first-come, first-served basis.
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Vertigo Dance Company
One. One & One (U.S. Premiere)
MAR 5 + 6 / TUE + WED at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Runs the Gamut: Exploring the Creative Legacy of Merce Cunningham
FEB 16 / SAT at 4PM
Howard Gilman Performance Space
Tickets
Free / Reservations Required
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
Verklärte Nacht (N.Y. Premiere)
JAN 30-FEB 3
WED-SAT at 7:30PM
SUN at 3:00PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets
$25 Orchestra
$20 Balcony
Running Time: 40 Minutes

When advance tickets are no longer available, a wait list will begin at the Box Office one hour prior to show time on the day of the performance. In the event of last minute cancellations, seats may be released and sold to those on the wait list on a first-come, first-served basis.
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
BAC Jam Session
JAN 11 / FRI / 6-8PM
Rudolf Nureyev Studio
Tickets Free
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Quodlibet Ensemble
Music by Biber, Martynov + Sharlat
DEC 5 / WED at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Wendy Lesser on Jerome Robbins
A conversation with Emily Coates, Kay Mazzo, and Edward Villella
NOV 27 / TUE at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets
Free / Reservations Required
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
BAC Space Fall 2018
Studio Showings
NOV 15
Tickets
Free / Reservations Required
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center + Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival Co-present
Framing Time (World Premiere)
NOV 1 + 2 / THU + FRI at 8PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets
$30 Orchestra
$25 Balcony
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
yMusic
Featuring a N.Y. Premiere by Bryce Dessner
OCT 15 / MON at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Lucy Guerin Inc
Split (U.S. Premiere)
OCT 11-13 / THU-SAT at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Running Time: 50 Minutes

Performance contains nudity.
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
BAC Salon: Szymanowski, Berio + Debussy
Tesla Quartet
Alexandra Smither, soprano
SEP 19 / WED at 7:30PM
Howard Gilman Performance Space
Tickets $25
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Isabella Rossellini
Link Link Circus
(U.S. Premiere)
MAY 16-19, 22 + 23
WED-SAT, TUE + WED at 7:30PM

MAY 20
SUN at 2PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets
$42 Orchestra
$35 Balcony
Running Time: 70 Minutes

A limited number of tickets, priced at $325, are available for the May 16 performance and reception with the artist; proceeds benefit Baryshnikov Arts Center.

When advance tickets are no longer available, a wait list will begin at the Box Office one hour prior to show time on the day of the performance. In the event of last minute cancellations, seats may be released and sold to those on the wait list on a first-come, first-served basis.
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
An Evening with Michelle Boulé
MAY 11
FRI at 7PM
Rudolf Nureyev Studio
Tickets $15
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
BAC Salon: Māris Briežkalns Quintet
Rothko in Jazz
MAY 2
WED at 7:30PM
Howard Gilman Performance Space
Running Time: 70 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Hosts
YoungArts New York
YoungArts New York 2018
Apr 24 - 29, 2018

Performances @ BAC
Apr 28 / Sat at 8PM
Apr 29 / Sun at 2PM
Tickets $15
Jerome Robbins Theater
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Open Rehearsal & Conversation:
Samar Haddad King & Amir Nizar Zuabi
APR 20
FRI at 4PM
Rudolf Nureyev Studio
Tickets Free / Reservations Required
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
BAC Presents
BAC Salon: Tarek Yamani
Afro-Tarab for Two
APR 18, 2018
WED at 7:30PM
John Cage & Merce Cunningham Studio
Tickets $20
Running Time: 60 Minutes

When advance tickets are no longer available, a wait list will begin at the Box Office one hour prior to show time on the day of the performance. In the event of last minute cancellations, seats may be released and sold to those on the wait list on a first-come, first-served basis.
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
BAC Space Spring 2018
Studio Showings
APR 12 / 11AM, 12PM, 1PM, 3PM, 5PM
Tickets Free
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Screening of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Music by Stephen Prutsman (N.Y. Premiere)
Performed Live by Puck Quartet
MAR 14
WED at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
An Evening with Marguerite Hemmings
FEB 23
FRI at 7PM
Rudolf Nureyev Studio
Tickets $15
Running Time: 60 Minutes
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Live Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Miguel Gutierrez

I as another (New York Premiere)

May 4-7

I as another is a new duet created by Miguel Gutierrez. Performed with Laila Franklin, the work takes place in a future/present dystopia and explores the virtual architecture of memory, what it means to be alongside one another, and how existential despair has come into public view. Drawing inspiration from Martinican philosopher Édouard Glissant and his conceptions of Relation and Opacity, I as another examines what it means for differences to come into contact and how unknowable we can be.

 

Choreographer, Performer, Sound Design, Text, Costumes: Miguel Gutierrez

Performer and Collaborator: Laila Franklin

Lighting Design: Carolina Ortiz

Additional Sound Design: Rosana Cabán

Stage Manager: Robert McIntyre

Dramaturgical Assistance: Stephanie Acosta

Management: Michelle Fletcher

Research Assistant: Amit Noy

 

I as another is supported by a Caroline A. Hearst commission from Princeton University and contributions from individual donors. It has been developed through a Resident Artist Residency at Movement Research in New York and a residency at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Virtual Presentation
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern + Emilie Leriche

One & One Other (Virtual World Premiere)

April 10-24, 2023

In a bizarre play between reality and absurdist fantasy, One & One Other is a divergent dance film offering a window into the secret world that exists on the fringes of our late-night consciousness. At the heart of the film is the mind’s ability to transport us away from the mundane, habitual rhythm of life into the incongruous realm of our imagination; a place that oscillates between the fantastic and the harrowing. One & One Other is Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern and Emilie Leriche’s fifth collaboration together, driven by a shared ambition to push the boundaries of film and dance and uncover how the two media might meet, intersect, and disrupt each other.

 

​​Directed and Choreographed by: Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern and Emilie Leriche

Editors: Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern and Emilie Leriche

 

One & One Other was filmed in part during an artist residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center.
 

Part One

Featuring: Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern and Emilie Leriche

Director of Photography: Bram VanderMark

Producer: Julia Bolt

Assistant Camera: Zhenya Townley, Tom Ford, Terry Ahern

Production Assistant: Riley Lynch

Stylist: Brie Welch

Music: Wolff Bergen, Niki & The Dove

Dramaturg: Megan Wright
 

Part Two

Featuring: Jonathan Fredrickson and Maximillian Leopold Deibert

Production Assistant: Lukas Turtur 

Director of Photography: Danijel Bogdanic

Composer: Rebecca Foon

Dramaturg: Megan Wright

Live Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Eunbi Kim & Xuan

it feels like a dream (World Premiere)

February 23, 2023

Pianist Eunbi Kim presents a sonic memoir titled it feels like a dream, offering a meditation on family and identity in collaboration with new media artist Xuan. Featuring a dreamy soundworld of classical music with pop awareness interwoven with hypnotic projected visuals, this multimedia performance asks: What are the dreams we carry and pass on? it feels like a dream features music for piano, pre-recorded voices, and electronics written for and performed by Kim from Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Angélica Negrón, Pauchi Sasaki, and Sophia Jani.

 

Program:

  1. Disco giratorio de palabras by Angélica Negrón (2020)

  2. Saturn Years by Sophia Jani (2021)

  3. Mother’s Hand, Healing Hand (엄마손은 약손) by Pauchi Sasaki (2021)

  4. It Feels Like a Mountain, Chasing Me by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) (2014)

Pianist: Eunbi Kim
Art Director: Xuan
Composers: Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Angélica Negrón, Pauchi Sasaki, and Sophia Jani

Developed in part during an artist residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center.

Live Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

AMOC* (American Modern Opera Company)

How to Fall Apart (New York Premiere)

February 10 + 11, 2023

Composed by Carolyn Chen, How to Fall Apart describes cosmic, natural, and human processes of disintegration, aging, and falling apart. This evening-length work for three dancers, one violinist, and one cellist integrates text, gesture, and music, building upon Chen’s long-standing compositional work “in which sensuality and abstraction find common ground” (LA Times). How to Fall Apart unfolds as various assemblages of sound, movement, and storytelling cohere, dissolve, and reform, telling personal and scientific stories about the climate crisis, cosmological history, the erosion of soil in Northern Chad, the aging body, The Billion Oyster Project in New York, and the operations of microbes.

 

Composed by Carolyn Chen

Performers:

Julia Eichten, dancer

Keir GoGwilt, violinist

Coleman Itzkoff, cellist

Yiannis Logothetis, dancer

Matilda Sakamoto, dancer

Movement Director: Julia Eichten

Lighting Designer: Mary Ellen Stebbins

 

Commissioned by AMOC*.

Developed in part during an artist residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center.

Developed in residency at The Lumberyard.

Special thanks to Or Schraiber and Jay Campbell for contributing to early workshops of the piece, as well as to Justin Decatur, Suzanne Thorpe, George Gwilt, and Dea Lou Schraiber.

Past Live Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Israel Galván

SOLO

January 23 + 24, 2023

In Israel Galván’s SOLO, the physical language of flamenco is recodified, using modes of expression that are genealogically related as well as performative aspects of other rituals of popular culture, from football to activism to cross-dressing. In constant pursuit of a dance that frees itself from the inherited features of established flamenco, Galván says: "SOLO is a coincidence — one day when I was dancing I stood still, I couldn't move, and there was no music. It was a minute of solitude. In all these years I have learned to dance alone with my solitudes. I realize the sound of my body and dance in silence."

 

CREDITS
Artistic Direction, Choreography, and Dance: Israel Galván
Sound: Pedro León
Management: Rosario Gallardo
Distribution: Rial & Eshelman
Production: Israel Galván Company in collaboration with INAEM, Instituo Nacional de las Artes Escénicas de la Música

 

 

Past Live Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Vertigo Dance Company

PARDES (N.Y. Premiere)

January 12-14, 2023

Under the artistic direction of Noa Wertheim, the internationally acclaimed Israeli modern dance company Vertigo has begun its third decade with an impressive repertoire of original works. Beyond her contribution to cultural life in Israel, Wertheim’s unique approach promotes social change by creating an artistic connection with the community and the environment. Her latest work, PARDES (the Hebrew word for “orchard”), is a dance for six performers exploring the connection of the body to its inner spiritual layers while being interwoven with the common tapestry of humanity. Wertheim’s lush choreography is accompanied by original music by Itamar Doari, one of Israel’s most prominent percussion artists.

CREDITS
Choreographer: Noa Wertheim
Assistant Choreographer: Rina Wertheim-Koren
Dancers: Etai Peri, Sian Olles, Eden Ben Shimol, Ruth Ben David, Ilan Golubovich, Theo Samsworth, Micah Amos, Korina Fraiman
Original Music: Itamar Doari 
Stage Design: Zohar Shoef
Styling: Rosie Canaan
Lighting Design: Dani Fishof – Magenta
CEO: Adi Sha'al
Company Manager: Sandra Brown
Production Abroad: Maya Williams
International Relations and Vertigo Friends: Rachel Grodjinovsky

 

     

Past Live Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Tere O'Connor

Rivulets (World Premiere)

December 7-10 and 14-17, 2022

Over his 40-year career, Tere O’Connor has developed singular movement constructions that expand elemental aspects of dance into illusory worlds that both reach into the depths of the imagination and remain grounded in contemporary realities. In Rivulets, he grapples with the relationship between unison/non-unison movement, its ubiquity across dance forms and the social and philosophical resonances this choreographic examination might engender such as: ideals of classical beauty, authoritarian or anarchic tendencies, and the standardization of human behavior. Creating structures where unison and non/unison treatments collide, he works to dissolve the order/chaos binary and promote alternative choreographic structures shaped by the unruly nature of consciousness.

Set to O'Connor's own original musical score, this World Premiere is created in collaboration with performers Leslie Cuyjet, Tess Dworman, Wendell Gray, Emma Judkins, Jordan Lloyd, Jordan Morley, Mac Twining, and Jessie Young. Lighting by Michael O’Connor. Costumes by Reid Bartelme.

Co-commissioned by Danspace Project.

Support provided by the Wexner Center for the Arts Performing Arts Residency Award, The Ohio State University.

Past Live Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Boris Berman

Works by Valentin Silvestrov

December 1, 2022

Pianist Boris Berman shares a one-night-only concert of music by prominent Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, whose music he has championed since the 1960s. This program presents a panorama of the evolution of Silvestrov's musical style, from the underground Soviet modernism of the post-Stalin USSR to his later works characterized by quiet and intense simplicity.
 

Program:

Triad (1961-1966) 
Sonata No. 2 (1975) 
Kitsch Music (1977) 
Five Pieces op. 306 (2021) (U.S. Premiere) 
Three Pieces, March 2022, Berlin (U.S. Premiere)

Past Installation
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Jennifer Tipton

Our Days and Night (World Premiere)

November 17-19, 2022

Illustrious lighting designer Jennifer Tipton will share an exhibit of light designed to show the relationship of the earth to the sun, tracing the origin and precarity of the sun’s support of life, and exploring the visual archetypes of the seasons. Theater artist Ain Gordon and choreographer and dancer Liz Gerring will activate the installation. Space design by Michael Yeargan and sound design by Scott Lehrer.

 

Jennifer Tipton was the recipient of the 2019-20 Cage Cunningham Fellowship, an award established in 2015 for artists who demonstrate John Cage and Merce Cunningham’s commitment to artistic innovation.

Past Presentation
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Unavailable Memory: In Conversation with Cunningham & Cage

(World Premiere)
October 27-29, 2022

Unavailable Memory: In Conversation with Cunningham & Cage is an evening of dance and music presenting Totem Ancestor (1942) performed by Mac Twining and Loops (1971) performed by Molissa Fenley, Justin Lynch, and Chaery Moon, both by Merce Cunningham, and six piano compositions by John Cage performed by Adam Tendler. Presented in conversation with these historic works will be new choreography by four students from The Juilliard School, developed with mentorship from Jean Freebury and Melissa Toogood, telemetries3, a new sound composition by John King made in response to Gordon Mumma’s original score for Loops (1971), and the World Premiere of Tether created and performed by Bebe Miller, Angie Hauser, and Darrell Jones. Co-Produced by The Merce Cunningham Trust, Unavailable Memory: In Conversation with Cunningham & Cage presents a multi-faceted conversation between music and dance, youth and maturity, and reconstruction and invention

CREDITS

Conception and Curation: Patricia Lent and Adam Tendler
Juilliard Student Mentorship: Jean Freebury and Melissa Toogood
Lighting Designer: Davison Scandrett
Stage Manager: Stacey-Jo Marine
Company Manager: Piper Dye

Co-Produced by The Merce Cunningham Trust

PROGRAM

Totem Ancestor (1942)
Choreographer: Merce Cunningham
Music: John Cage, Totem Ancestor (1942)
Dancer: Mac Twining
Pianist: Adam Tendler
Stager: Daniel Madoff
Costume Designer: Charlotte Trowbridge

Totem Ancestor was first performed by Merce Cunningham on October 20, 1942 at the Humphrey-Weidman Studio Theatre in New York City. This month marks the 80th anniversary of that premiere.Costume courtesy of Peter Sparling and University of Michigan Museum of Art Totem Ancestor (1942) by Merce Cunningham © Merce Cunningham Trust. All rights reserved.

Loops for Three (1971/2022)
Choreographer: Merce Cunningham
Music: John King, telemetries3 (2022)
Dancers: Molissa Fenley, Justin Lynch, Chaery Moon
Musician: John King
Stager: Patricia Lent
Costume Designer: Jennifer Goggans

Loops was first performed by Merce Cunningham on December 3, 1971 at the Museum of Modern Art. The dance, which Cunningham described as “an event for a soloist” comprises a series of task-like segments called Slap, Chair, Shuffle, Slide, et cetera. For this production, Patricia Lent has drawn on archival resources to make a new arrangement for three dancers. The original music for Loops was Gordon Mumma’s composition Loops: Biophysical and Ambient Signals from FM Telemetry. John King’s new composition, telemetries3, is a continuation of Mumma’s idea to use heartbeats and breathing as the sonic and rhythmic component of the work. In this new version, the material is tripled, interacting and coalescing in randomly determined ways, at times coming directly from the dancers and at other times overlapping in more complex relationships.

Loops (1971) by Merce Cunningham © Merce Cunningham Trust. All rights reserved.

Caged Thoughts (World Premiere)
Choreographer and Dancer: Lindsay Phillips
Music: John Cage, A Valentine Out of Season (1944)
Pianist: Adam Tendler

Loops for Three (1971/2022)

to be done when leaving (World Premiere)
Choreographer: Griffin Massey
Dancers: Griffin Massey
Music: John Cage, The Unavailable Memory Of (1944)
Pianist: Adam Tendler

Loops for Three (1971/2022)

What will be, was. (World Premiere)
Choreographer and Dancer: Matthew Johnson
Music: John Cage, In the Name of the Holocaust (1942)
Pianist: Adam Tendler

Loops for Three (1971/2022)

Out of touch (World Premiere)
Choreographer and Dancer: Connor Freeman
Music: John Cage, Root of an Unfocus (1944)
Pianist: Adam Tendler

—or —

Three for Connor
Choreographers and Dancers: Matthew Johnson, Griffin Massey, Lindsay Phillips
Music: John Cage, Root of an Unfocus (1944)
Pianist: Adam Tendler

Tether (World Premiere)
Bebe Miller Company
Dancers: Angie Hauser, Darrell Jones, Bebe Miller
Music: John Cage, Dream (1948), with electronic improvisation
Pianist: Adam Tendler

Tether is an improvised dance, sparked by curiosity about Cunningham and Cage’s manner of exchange with each other and their collaborators and the evidence of the tethers they have left behind. The performers share a 20-plus-year creative scrutiny via dance-making together—Tether welcomes Cunningham as a fourth partner. The work asks: might Loops as a text amplify some aspect of the artists’ own shared practice? Could Cunningham’s notion of coexisting and predetermined materials serve as a trigger, a tether, for their own artistic interests? Adam Tendler’s rendition of Cage’s music acts as a parallel connection to the Cage/Cunningham conversation.

Program Running Time: 60 minutes

Past Presentation
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

The Westerlies

Taking Shape (World Premiere)

October 19 + 20, 2022

The Westerlies have long been fascinated by the rich tradition of American shape-note music, a body of work written with a notation system designed to facilitate congregational and social singing. In the program, the ensemble presents a selection of traditional shape-note hymns alongside four World Premieres, one by each member of the ensemble, inspired by the musical properties of shape-note singing. With concert hall precision and folklike approachability, The Westerlies invite the listener into their musical world, cutting new trails across the vast expanse of the American musical landscape.

Program:

Andy Clausen Robert Henry

Shape Note Songs:

Traditional Weeping Mary

William Walker Louisiana

Arr. John G. McCurry Parting Friends

World Premieres Commissioned by BAC:

Andy Clausen The 5:10 to Ronkonkoma

Willem de Koch Overpass

Riley Mulherkar The Evening Trumpet

Chloe Rowlands Kerhonkson

Caroline Shaw Entr’acte

Traditional Saro

Past Presentation
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Owls

October 17 + 18, 2022

Known for their original, visceral, and personal performances, collective quartet Owls (violinist Alexi Kenney, violist Ayane Kozasa, cellist Gabriel Cabezas and cellist-composer Paul Wiancko) challenges the way meaningful concert experiences are conceived. Weaving together new compositions with original arrangements of music ranging from the 1700s to the 2010s, this program showcases Owls' distinctive instrumentation, allowing them to access beautiful and exhilarating new sound worlds.

Program:
Children’s Song No. 12 (1984)                             
Chick Corea

Vox Petra (2018)                                                     
Paul Wiancko

Reqs (2015)                                                             
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh

Les Barricades Mystérieuses (1717)                   
François Couperin

Ricercar (2000)                                                       
Trollstilt (Monica Mugan and Dan Trueman)

When The Night (2018)                                         
Paul Wiancko

Good Medicine (1986)                                           
Terry Riley

Past IN-PERSON PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

BAC Open House

June 29, 2022

Please join us on Wednesday, June 29 between 1-6PM for BAC Open House, an afternoon of free studio showings of works-in-progress by our BAC Open Resident Artists.

Amanda Szeglowski
1PM / Rudolf Nureyev Studio
Writer, director, choreographer, and performing artist Amanda Szeglowski, founder of cakeface, is developing a work channeling Armenian psychic medium Roxy Miraianian and exploring the nature of human consciousness.
Free tickets to Amanda Szeglowski's studio showing will be available at the BAC Box Office from 11:30am-1pm

Baye & Asa
2PM / John Cage & Merce Cunningham Studio
Dance company Baye & Asa will develop HotHouse, a dance work exploring the impact of social isolation and the systemic criminal confinement of American people and communities.
Free tickets to Baye & Asa's studio showing will be available at the BAC Box Office from 11:30am-2pm

Aaron Landsman
4PM / Rudolf Nureyev Studio
Theater artist Aaron Landsman is developing Night Keeper, a multimedia performance exploring our changeable capacity for shared experiences and negotiating the spatial hierarchies that separate performer from audience.
Free tickets to Aaron Landsman's studio showing will be available at the BAC Box Office from 2:30-4pm

Ian Askew
5PM / John Cage & Merce Cunningham Studio
Musician Ian Askew will develop John Henry and High John, a collaborative performance project inspired by the 1940 musical John Henry, which closed only five days after its Broadway premiere and starred Paul Robeson in the title role.
Free tickets to Ian Askew's studio showing will be available at the BAC Box Office from 2:30-5pm

 

Please Note:
Tickets will be available at the BAC Box Office on a first-come-first-served basis on the day of the event.
Capacity is limited—please arrive at least 15 minutes in advance of each showing's start time.
Proof of vaccination required. Masks required.
We look forward to seeing you!

Past IN-PERSON PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center and The Chocolate Factory Theater Co-Present

Donna Uchizono Company

Wings of Iron (World Premiere)

May 18-21, 2022

Bessie and US Artist award winner Donna Uchizono will present the world premiere of Wings of Iron, an evening-length work that examines what it takes to remain humane in these charged times. Investigating the “weight in-between,” the work provides a forum in which to share the weight of vulnerability that is simultaneously public and private. The detailed choreography unfolds a tough exterior over time allowing a new intimacy to emerge, leading to a deeper exploration of this question. Choreographed by Uchizono in collaboration with performers Bria Bacon, Natalie Green, Molly Lieber, and Pareena Lim, Wings of Iron features an original score by composer okkyung lee and lighting design by Joe Levasseur, co-presented by the Chocolate Factory Theater.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Omar Román De Jesús

World Premiere
April 25-May 9, 2022

Like all good infatuations, Cielo Elena (World Premiere) began with a pair of pants sold at a 60% discount. The brainchild of choreographer Omar Román De Jesús, cinematographer Xhon Dang, sound designer Jesse Scheinin, and lighting designer Christopher Chambers, this fifteen-minute performance film takes viewers through six movements celebrating individual and interpersonal relationships to the human body. Cielo Elena splays intimacy open, posing questions about ecstasy, kink, queerness, vulnerability, and risk while participating in an ongoing effort to liberate concert dance from moral rigidity. Through the durable medium of film, this work intentionally makes space for eyes to linger then adjust, discomforts to stir then process, and audiences to pull back the curtain on what else might be consumer friendly at 60% off.

Following the World Premiere of Cielo Elena, the six characters of De Jesús’s 12-minute film Los Perros del Barrio Colosal take us on a wild romp through the challenges of creative decision making through the exaggerated mannerisms of daytime television. Diving dramatically into the adventure of an imagination yet to be physicalized, they ask us to consider the far side of the moments when our ideas threaten, with disjointed urgency, to swallow us whole.

 

Creation and production of Cielo Elena were made possible by generous support from the Baryshnikov Arts Center and Boca Tuya’s individual donors.

Past IN-PERSON PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Ashwini Ramaswamy

Let the Crows Come (New York Premiere)

April 13-15, 2022

Ramaswamy "weaves together, both fearfully and joyfully, the human and the divine." -The New York Times

“a fascinating, beautifully developed exchange of dance styles among three women" -The Washington Post, "Best Dance of 2021"

Minneapolis-based choreographer and dancer Ashwini Ramaswamy’s Let the Crows Come was developed during a 2018 BAC residency and originally scheduled to be performed at BAC in spring 2020. Let the Crows Come evokes mythography and ancestry, using the metaphor of crows as messengers for the living and guides for the departed—and in the process explores how memory and homeland channel guidance and dislocation. In a series of three dance solos from Ramaswamy (Bharatanatyam), Alanna Morris (Modern), and Berit Ahlgren (Gaga), Bharatanatyam is deconstructed and recontextualized to recall a memory that has a shared origin but is remembered differently from person to person. The work features live music by composers Jace Clayton (DJ/ rupture) and Brent Arnold, who extrapolate from Prema Ramamurthy’s classical Carnatic (South Indian) score, utilizing centuries-old compositional structures as the point of departure for their sonic explorations.

Past IN-PERSON PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Andy Akiho: Seven Pillars

Sandbox Percussion

NY Premiere
April 7 + 8, 2022

Hailed by The New York Times as “a lush, brooding celebration of noise,” Andy Akiho’s Seven Pillars is his most ambitious project to date. Nominated for a Grammy Award for best classical composition and best chamber music performance, the work is structured as a large-scale palindrome and consists of seven ensemble movements and one solo movement for each member of Sandbox Percussion. Michael Joseph McQuilken’s lighting scheme reinforces the work's form throughout the live performance. Performed by Sandbox, this evening-length work is the largest-scale chamber music work that Akiho has written and that Sandbox has commissioned. Akiho and Sandbox’s collaboration for Seven Pillars has spanned the past eight years.

Past IN-PERSON PRESENTATION
The Board of Directors of Baryshnikov Arts Center invites you to:

Stravinsky Reimagined (World Premiere)

Directed + Choreographed by Jennifer Weber

Featuring Tiler Peck + Brooklyn Mack
April 4, 2022

Join us in BAC's Jerome Robbins Theater for a special one-night-only World Premiere Benefit Performance. Stravinsky Reimagined transforms two of Stravinsky's most iconic works, Petrushka and The Firebird, with a contemporary approach, bringing ballet and hip-hop together in a celebration of storytelling through movement. Directed and choreographed by Jennifer Weber, Stravinsky Reimagined features performances by New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck, international principal guest artist Brooklyn Mack, and a cast of ballet and hip-hop dancers.

Full Cast:
Gabriel Alvarez, India Bradley, Patti Crumrine, Alex Diaz, Casie "Tynee" Goshow, Christopher Grant, Yusaku Komori, Bryan Longchamp, Brooklyn Mack, Roman Mejia, Zuce Morales, Esosa Oviasu, Tiler Peck, Dan Santiago.
Music by DJ Boo.

Past IN-PERSON PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Johnny Gandelsman

This is America

March 16 + 17, 2022

Violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman brings his new commissioning project This Is America, a celebration of America’s rich cultural tapestry and its myriad perspectives, thoughts, and ideas. The program offers a vivid counterpoint to the idea that this land can be understood through any single dominant point of view. The BAC program features performances of 10 new works for solo violin written by a diverse group of US-based composers, alongside two iconic works by Johann Sebastian Bach.

March 16 Program:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No.1 in G Major, BWV 1007 (transcribed for violin)
Angélica Negrón: A través del manto Luminoso
Olivia Davis: Steeped
Nick Dunston: Tardigrades (BAC Commission, World Premiere)
Christina Courtin: Stroon
Marika Hughes: From J With Love

March 17 Program:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite no.3 For Solo Cello, BWV 1009 (transcribed for violin)
Adele Faizullina: Dew, Time, Linger
Nick Dunston: Tardigrades (BAC Commission, World Premiere)
Tyshawn Sorey: For Courtney Bryan
Rhea Fowler & Micaela Tobin: A City Upon a Hill?
Rhiannon Giddens: New To The Session

To learn more about This Is America, and to access videos of the composers introducing their works, please click here.

Past IN-PERSON PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Chromic Duo

Homecoming: love you all ways

March 14 + 15, 2022

Chromic Duo blends piano, prepared piano, toy piano, and electronics into genre-fluid performances and installations. This program brings together music by Chromic Duo, Kenyan composer Nyokabi Kariuki, and Brooklyn-based composer Phong Tran, technologist and visual artist Brian Ellis, and dance collective J CHEN PROJECT. Building upon the Duo's multimedia and chamber music performance practice, Homecoming: love you all ways utilizes research and prototyping of interviews and field recordings conducted in New York City’s Chinatown to bring to light the sounds and stories of the people and communities around them. This program combines performance art, sound design, installation, dance, and new technologies to reflect upon personal journeys and celebrate the resilience of Asian American communities in the face of uncertainty and adversity.

Program:
Chromic Duo: lightless*
Nyokabi Kariuki: laika, bluu (NY Premiere)
Chromic Duo: Fluorescent Oceans
Phong Tran: have fun instead of worrying (World Premiere)
Chromic Duo: Blue Vice (NY Premiere)**
Chromic Duo: Homecoming: love you all ways (BAC Commission, World Premiere)^

*This work includes visual art in collaboration with Brian Ellis.
**This work includes a dance collaboration with J CHEN PROJECT.
^This work includes interviews + memories to celebrate Chinatown, including interviews with mural artist Peach Blue, poetry by JiaoYang Li inspired by Tonii's Rice Rolls, with additional poetry by Dorothy Chan and Lucy Yao.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Peggy Baker

her body as words (New York Premiere)

February 28-March 14, 2022

Peggy Baker’s new work, her body as words (2021), is a sound and film installation that fragments and explodes notions of female identity as expressed by nine Canadian dance artists. Inspired by the 2009 translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Baker entered a deeply collaborative process involving personal conversations with the performers. Dancing the complexities of their lived identities, these artists offer gestural renderings touching on themes of race, gender expression, sexual orientation, sexual appetite, pregnancy, miscarriage, motherhood, disability, physical labor, and aging. her body as words was filmed by Jeremy Mimnagh and features sound design by Debashis Sinha.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Philippe Petit

Open Practice (New York City Premiere)

February 7-21, 2022

To prepare for his high wire walks around the globe—more than 80 of them so far—Philippe Petit has practiced almost daily for the last 55 years. His most notable adventure was his illegal walk between the Twin Towers, a caper recounted in his book To Reach the Clouds, on which the 2009 Academy Award-winning documentary Man on Wire was based. Petit’s latest show, Open Practice, beautifully shot at the majestic Ulster Performing Arts Center, gives audiences front row seats to observe Petit’s creative process and inventive moves on the wire. Interspersed with anecdotes about his life, he reveals some of the extraordinary ways he thinks about creativity and risk and what he calls cheating the impossible.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith

gloria rehearsal (excerpt)

World Premiere commissioned by BAC
January 10-24, 2022

gloria rehearsal (excerpt) is a feminist work continuing NYC-based Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith’s fifteen-year choreographic partnership using abstract dance as a means to break down patriarchal systems of degradation. The artists position themselves as recognizable images of female objectification, only to deconstruct and reconstitute these forms through embodied movement and connection. gloria rehearsal (excerpt) is a meditation striving toward catharsis despite deep communal grief.

Choreographed and Performed by Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith
Sound Design by James Lo
Filmed and Edited by Tatyana Tenenbaum
Additional Camera by Colin Nusbaum

The score has been mixed for headphones/earbuds using 3D spatialization software from the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics – IEM and from the ambiX suite by Matthias Kronlachner.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Ella Rothschild

Pigulim

December 13-23, 2021

In Israeli choreographer Ella Rothschild’s filmed dance-theater work, Pigulim, a cultural narrative unfolds around themes of materialism and mortality. Characters struggling with loneliness and the search for happiness gather around a table, using the familiar ceremony of a shared meal to explore banality and fantasy, fear and desire.

Choreography: Ella Rothschild
Performers: Ariel Freedman, Adi Zlatin, and Keren Luria Pardes
Also featuring dancers of the Maslool Professional Dance Program: Noga Eliezer, Gilly Geva, Noa Gronich, Romy Duvdevani, Shani Zargari, Noam Hayoun, Noa Toledano, Omer Tichauer, Adam Ishay Eldar, Roni Morhalachmi, Lal’el Pillora, Yahav Sabag, Tal Cohen
Lighting Design: Ofer Laufer
Table and Art: Ofer Laufer
Costumes: Inbal Ben Zaken
Music: Gershon Waiserfirer
Dramaturgy: Tal Yahas
Photos: Efrat Mazor
Trailers: Roee Shalti
Directors of Maslool Professional Dance Program: Naomi Perlov, Offir Dagan

Film Producer and Director: Jonathan Mordechay
Photographer and Editor: Nir Weiss
Second Unit Photographer: Shay Farage
Editor: Ziv Karshen
Sound: Yohay Ben Zvi and Elad Goldberg

Pigulim was developed, in part, during a BAC Residency.

Ella Rothschild’s presentation at BAC is supported by the Consulate General of Israel in New York.

Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

In Conversation: Jordan Demetrius Lloyd with Benedict Nguyễn

December 8, 2021

The Fall 2021 season of premieres commissioned by BAC includes a series of live-streamed talks with the artists about their projects and creative processes.

In conjunction with the premiere of Trip Gloss, dance artist Jordan Demetrius Lloyd talks with writer, dancer, and curator Benedict Nguyễn.

Jordan and Benedict first collaborated together on The Last Moon in Mellowland as part of Benedict's curatorial platform soft bodies in hard places. Since the film premiered in November 2020 at ISSUE Project Room, Jordan has continued working with Benedict as a creative producer.

Trip Gloss is available to watch free, on demand November 29-December 13, Monday at 5PM ET until Monday at 5PM ET.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Jordan Demetrius Lloyd

Trip Gloss

World Premiere commissioned by BAC
November 29-December 13, 2021

Brooklyn-based dance artist Jordan Demetrius Lloyd's Trip Gloss is an experimental documentary. The film compiles a cacophony of inner stories and imagined fantasies generated from Lloyd, five dancers, and a sound designer over the course of a weeklong residency at BAC. Trip Gloss is both a hyperdigitized and lo-fi collage of color and choreography that re-considers the translation of sensation to a two-dimensional screen.

Warning: This video contains strobe effect.

Choreography and Direction: Jordan Demetrius Lloyd
Featuring: Wendell Gray II, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Mia Martelli, Mykel Marai Nairne, José Lapaz Rodriguez, Kennedy Thomas
Sound Credits: Ryan Wolfe
Sound Design: Jordan Demetrius Lloyd
Videography: Emily Rose Canon, Jade Manns
Editing: Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Chandler Clamp
Creative Producer and Manager: Benedict Nguyen
Filmed at Baryshnikov Arts Center

Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

In Conversation: Sooraj Subramaniam with Paul Singh

November 9, 2021

The Fall 2021 season of premieres commissioned by BAC includes a series of live-streamed talks with the artists about their projects and creative processes.

In conjunction with the premiere of Other Places of Being, dance artist Sooraj Subramaniam and his collaborator January Low talk with BAC Artistic Associate Paul Singh.

Other Places of Being is available to watch free, on demand November 1-15, Monday at 5PM ET until Monday at 5PM ET.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Sooraj Subramaniam

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