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David Neumann performing at BAC in 2010

Randy Cohen, host of Person Place Thing

Sasha Berliner, vibraphone

Jennifer Tipton, lighting design

Christopher Costanza, cello

Geoff Nuttall, violin

Sarah Rothenberg, piano

Joshua Rubin, clarinet

Spring 2017 BAC Space Resident Artist Maria Hassabi

Julia Wolfe

Photo: Paula Court

Fall 2016 BAC Space Resident Artist Dianne McIntyre

Past IN-PERSON PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
BAC Open House
JUN 29 / WED
Tickets Free
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.


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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
PlayBAC
Performances from the Archive
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Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Parlor Broadcast: The Westerlies
On Zoom
MAY 1 + 8
FRI at 8 - 8:30PM
Tickets FREE
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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
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Running Time: 30 Minutes
Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
PlayBAC
Performances from the Archive
APR 9 - MAY 19
Tickets FREE
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
BAC Space Spring 2019
Studio Showings
APR 11
Tickets
Free / Reservations Required
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Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Tei Blow + Laurel Atwell
Entry (Work-in-Progress)
Mar 15 / FRI
7PM + 9PM
Rudolf Nureyev Studio
Tickets $15
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
BAC Space Fall 2018
Studio Showings
NOV 15
Tickets
Free / Reservations Required
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time
Conceived and Directed by Sarah Rothenberg
Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
FEB 22
THU at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
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Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Anton Batagov + Attacca Quartet
JAN 16
TUE at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
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Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Kota Yamazaki / Fluid hug-hug
Darkness Odyssey Part 2: I or Hallucination
(World Premiere)
DEC 13 - 15
WED - FRI at 7:30PM
Howard Gilman Performance Space
Tickets $25
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Running Time: 70 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 Salon: Pauline Oliveros
Featuring IONE + International Contemporary Ensemble in an Evening of Music + Conversation
NOV 28
TUE at 7:30PM
John Cage & Merce Cunningham Studio
Tickets $20
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Running Time: 60 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
BAC Space Fall 2017
Studio Showings
NOV 16 / 1PM, 2PM, 3PM, 4PM
Tickets Free
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Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Gidon Kremer
Preludes to a Lost Time (Imaginary Dialogues)
OCT 31 + NOV 1
TUE + WED at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
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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
Roy Assaf Dance
Six Years Later and The Hill
(N.Y. Premieres)
OCT 12 + 13
THU + FRI at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
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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
BAC Salon: Telemann, Farrin, Wolfe + Prokofiev
OCT 5 + 6
THU + FRI at 7:30PM
John Cage & Merce Cunningham Studio
Tickets $20
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Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Dorothée Munyaneza / Compagnie Kadidi
Unwanted
(N.Y. Premiere)
SEP 21 + 22
THU + FRI at 7:30PM
Jerome Robbins Theater
Tickets $25
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Running Time: 75 Minutes

Post-performance discussion with Dorothée Munyaneza and Holland Andrews on Sep 22.
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
Ain Gordon with Josh Quillen: Pick Up Performance Co(s)
Radicals in Miniature (World Premiere)
MAY 16 - 20
TUE - SAT at 7:30PM

MAY 21
SUN at 2PM

MAY 23 + 24
TUE + WED at 7:30PM
Howard Gilman Performance Space
Tickets $20
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Running Time: 75 Minutes
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Hosts
YoungArts New York
YoungArts New York 2017
Apr 25 - 30, 2017

Performances @ BAC
Apr 29 / Sat at 8PM
Apr 30 / Sun at 2PM
Tickets $15
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Jerome Robbins Theater
Past Performance
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents
BAC Space Spring 2017
Studio Showings
APR 13 / 1PM, 2PM, 3PM,
4PM, 5:30PM
Tickets Free
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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

Other Places of Being

World Premiere commissioned by BAC
November 1-15, 2021

A digital collaboration from Belgian-based Sooraj Subramaniam and Kuala Lumpur-based January Low explores their parallel experiences of the Odissi Indian classical dance form. Created during global lockdown in an effort to overcome distance and despondency, Other Places of Being reveals the bridging power of social media and technology and the rekindling of a friendship made possible through dance.

Concept and Direction: Sooraj Subramaniam
Screenplay, Choreography, and Performance: January Low and Sooraj Subramaniam
Music Score (voice recordings, soundscape): January Low and Sooraj Subramaniam
Video Editing: Tom Decuyper and Sooraj Subramaniam

 

In Conversation: Sooraj Subramaniam with Paul Singh
BAC presents a live-streamed conversation with Subramaniam and BAC Artistic Associate Paul Singh on Tuesday, November 9 at 7PM ET.
Live on ZOOM
Free / Registration is required

Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

In Conversation: River L. Ramirez with Morgan Bassichis

Live on ZOOM
October 26, 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 GhostFolk, comedian, musician, and writer River L. Ramirez talks with performer Morgan Bassichis.

Ramirez and Bassichis have been performing together since 2017. They have collaborated on fundraisers, live shows, videos, and more ever since.

GhostFolk is available to watch free, on demand Oct 18-Nov 1, Monday at 5PM ET until Monday at 5PM ET.
WATCH NOW

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

River L. Ramirez

GhostFolk

World Premiere commissioned by BAC
October 18-November 1, 2021

Queens-based comedian, musician, and writer River L. Ramirez performs a New Americana variety show offering an anti-capitalist reclamation of their Afro-Latinx non-binary trans experience. Joined by Lou Tides (bass) and Sarah Galdes (drums), Ramirez performs guitar and vocals in GhostFolk, sharing everyday stories of love, heartbreak, youth, aging, and death with a nuanced perspective of “the oppressed.”

Guitar, Vocals, Performance: River L. Ramirez
Drums: Sarah Galdes
Bass and Vocals: Teeny Lieberson/Lou Tides
Consultant: Andrew Kircher
Filmed by Tatyana Tenenbaum at Baryshnikov Arts Center

 

In Conversation: River L. Ramirez with Morgan Bassichis

BAC presented a live-streamed conversation with Ramirez and performer Morgan Bassichis on Tuesday, October 26 at 7PM ET.
Watch Now

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Mats Ek & Ana Laguna

Whilst & My Letter

World Premieres
October 4-14, 2021

Whilst & My Letter, two never-before-seen solos from Swedish choreographer Mats Ek and dancer Ana Laguna, his wife, offer a personal response to feelings of isolation brought on by the global pandemic. Periods of quarantine during fall 2020 and winter 2021 spurred a heightened sense of the passage of time, fueling the legendary duo's artistic practice and leading to dance works created and filmed at their country home in Northern Sweden. The program includes a recorded conversation with the artists and dance writer Jann Parry.

Whilst (2020)
Choreographed and Performed by Mats Ek
Music by Franz Liszt
Filmed by Ana Laguna
Editing by Moment 22

With courtesy of SOLSTICE records
 

My Letter (2021)
Choreographed by Mats Ek
Performed by Ana Laguna
Music by J.S. Bach
Filmed by Mats Ek
Editing by Moment 22

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
September 20-30, 2021

In Conversation with Merce is a filmed presentation featuring an arrangement of solos and duets from Merce Cunningham’s Landrover, and two world premieres by choreographers Kyle Abraham and Liz Gerring created in response to the 1972 work. According to Cunningham, Landrover – a large-scale ensemble piece created at his Westbeth studio in Manhattan – was inspired by “people moving in different landscapes. American perhaps in the sense that we move in our country – across varied spaces – with varied backgrounds.” The Landrover excerpts, performed by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater members Chalvar Monteiro and Jacquelin Harris, and the new works by Abraham and Gerring, performed by members of their companies, were filmed August 2021 in the John Cage & Merce Cunningham Studio. The program is introduced by Merce Cunningham Trust trustee Patricia Lent and includes interviews with Kyle Abraham and Liz Gerring.

Credits – Landrover (Excerpts)
Choreography: Merce Cunningham
Music: John King and Anaïs Maviel, 15/2
Costumes: After the original design by Jasper Johns
Costume Reconstruction: Reid Bartelme & Harriet Jung
Staged by: Jamie Scott
Dancers: Jacquelin Harris and Chalvar Monteiro
Landrover (1972) by Merce Cunningham (c) Merce Cunningham Trust.

Credits – World Premiere Choreographed by Liz Gerring
Composer: Michael Schumacher 
Dancers: Mariah Anton and Cemiyon Barber 
Rehearsal Assistant: Jamie Scott 
Costumes: Reid Bartelme & Harriet Jung

Credits – World Premiere Choreographed by Kyle Abraham
Dancers: Claude “CJ” Johnson and Donovan Reed
Costumes: Reid Bartelme & Harriet Jung

Filmed by Tatyana Tenenbaum at Baryshnikov Arts Center

Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center and Tippet Rise Art Center Co-Present

In Conversation: Aizuri Quartet

Live on ZOOM
June 28, 2021

In conjunction with the premiere of What’s Past is Prologue, Aizuri Quartet talks with Jenny Bilfield, President & CEO of Washington Performing Arts.

What’s Past is Prologue is available to watch free, on demand June 23-Jul 7 and Jun 30-Jul 14, Wednesday at 5PM ET until Wednesday at 5PM ET.


BAC Artist Commissions made possible with generous leadership support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Thompson Family Foundation, and Robert and Kathleen Wallace.

Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.

As of January, 2021.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center and Tippet Rise Art Center Co-Present

Aizuri Quartet

What’s Past is Prologue

June 23 - July 14, 2021

"Elegant, inquisitive" - The New Yorker on Aizuri Quartet

The GRAMMY Award-winning string ensemble performs What's Past is Prologue, two digital concerts of music by female composers spanning the past millennia, filmed March 2021 at the studio of renowned sculptor Joel Shapiro.

The phrase "what's past is prologue," from Shakespeare's The Tempest, "has become a modern shorthand for the notion that history set the context for the present," says Aizuri cellist Karen Ouzounian. "Contemporary composers reflect on the work of those who came before them as they push the string quartet medium towards the future." The dramatic setting for this two-part program is Shapiro's large-scale geometric sculptures that suspend from the ceiling and extend from the walls and floors of his studio in Long Island City, Queens.

Part 1, available June 23 includes Benedictine composer, philosopher, and abbess Hildegard von Bingen’s (b. 1098) liturgical poem Columba aspexit, arranged for string quartet by Alex Fortes; composer and environmentalist Gabriella Smith’s (b. 1991) Carrot Revolution, written for Aizuri’s GRAMMY-winning album Blueprinting; and GRAMMY and MacArthur Award-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens’s (b. 1977) At the Purchaser’s Option, a haunting work inspired by an 1830s advertisement selling a young female slave with or without her 9 month old baby.

Part 2, available June 30 offers Barbara Strozzi’s (b. 1619) L'usignuolo “The Nightingale” and L’amante modesto “The Modest Lover,” arranged by Alex Fortes; and British, Jamaican-born composer Eleanor Alberga’s (b. 1949) second movement from String Quartet No. 1, a life-affirming work inspired by a physics lecture in which the composer learned we are all made of star dust.

Film Director - Tristan Cook
Audio Engineer - Noriko Okabe

Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

In Conversation: Kyle Marshall with Charmaine Warren

Live on ZOOM
June 16, 2021

The Spring 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 STELLAR, Kyle Marshall talks with performer, educator, and dance writer Charmaine Warren.

Warren has been a mentor to Marshall since he was resident emerging choreographer of the 2016 "Dance on the Lawn" Montclair Dance Festival, of which Warren is founder/producer and artistic director, in addition to her role as producer of DanceAfrica at BAM.

STELLAR is available to watch free, on demand June 7-21, Monday at 5PM ET until Monday at 5PM ET.


BAC Artist Commissions made possible with generous leadership support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Thompson Family Foundation, and Robert and Kathleen Wallace.

Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.

As of January, 2021.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Kyle Marshall

STELLAR (World Premiere)

BAC Artist Commission
June 7-21, 2021

This dance of speculative fiction created by choreographer Kyle Marshall began as virtual improvisation sessions with two fellow movement artists. STELLAR is inspired by Afrofuturism, the echoes of Jazz, and the stars within us. 

Choreography and Scores: Kyle Marshall
Performers: Bree Breeden, Kyle Marshall, and Ariana Speight
Sound: Kwami Winfield
Suits: Malcolm-x Betts
Lighting: Amanda K. Ringger 
Makeup: Edo Tastic
Filmed and Edited by Tatyana Tenenbaum for Baryshnikov Arts Center

Film Location: BAC’s Jerome Robbins Theater

In Conversation: Kyle Marshall with Charmaine Warren
BAC presents a live-streamed conversation with Marshall and performer, educator, and dance writer Charmaine Warren on Wednesday, June 16 at 7PM ET.
Live on ZOOM
Free / Registration is required


BAC Artist Commissions made possible with generous leadership support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Thompson Family Foundation, and Robert and Kathleen Wallace.

Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.

As of January, 2021.

Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

In Conversation: Tei Blow with Andrew Kircher

Live on ZOOM
May 26, 2021

The Spring 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 The Sprezzaturameron, Tei Blow talks with new media performance scholar Andrew Kircher. They will be joined by Blow's collaborator Sean McElroy, co-founder of Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble.

Blow and Kircher first connected at The Public Theater, where Kircher directed the Devised Theater Working Group that Blow was a part of, and later via engagements with New York City College of Technology and Under the Radar Festival. Kircher's forthcoming long-form publication, WTFLOL: Devised Theater and Computers will feature and expand upon the Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble body of work.

The Sprezzaturameron is available to watch free, on demand May 17-31, Monday at 5PM ET until Monday at 5PM ET.


BAC Artist Commissions made possible with generous leadership support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Thompson Family Foundation, and Robert and Kathleen Wallace.

Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.

As of January, 2021.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Tei Blow

The Sprezzaturameron (World Premiere)

BAC Artist Commission
May 17-31, 2021

A video docudrama from multimedia artists and musicians Tei Blow and Sean McElroy (Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble) follows two men who must confront the precarious nature of art-making in an apocalyptic near-future. As they gain awareness of their own privilege in a reforming world, the duo embarks on a vision quest to craft the perfect apology, inspired by the infamous apologists of the #MeToo era.

Sprezzatura is an Italian word coined in the 16th century by Castiglione in The Book of the Courtier. It is defined as “a form of defensive irony: the ability to disguise what one really desires, feels, thinks, and means or intends behind a mask of apparent reticence and nonchalance." It is this irony, the mask of the courtier, that The Sprezzaturameron seeks to reveal. But what lies behind this mask?

Written and Performed by Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble
Company: Tei Blow, Sean McElroy
Music: Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble
Digital Architect: John Blalock 
Aesthetic Consultant: Julian Shapiro-Barnum

Location: Partially filmed at BAC’s Jerome Robbins Theater

Tei Blow was a 2018-19 Cage Cunningham Fellow.

In Conversation: Tei Blow with Andrew Kircher
BAC presents a live-streamed conversation with Blow, collaborator Sean McElroy, and new media performance scholar Andrew Kircher on Wednesday, May 26 at 5PM ET.
Live on ZOOM
Free / Registration required here beginning May 17 at 5pm ET


BAC Artist Commissions made possible with generous leadership support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Thompson Family Foundation, and Robert and Kathleen Wallace.

Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.

As of January, 2021.

Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

In Conversation: Stefanie Batten Bland with Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Live on ZOOM
May 11, 2021

The Spring 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 Kolonial, choreographer Stefanie Batten Bland talks with writer and curator Eva Yaa Asantewaa.

Batten Bland and Yaa Asantewaa first connected through engagements with Gibney Dance, where Yaa Asantewaa currently serves as Senior Director of Curation and Editorial Director.

Kolonial is available to watch free, on demand May 3-17, Monday at 5PM ET until Monday at 5PM ET.


BAC Artist Commissions made possible with generous leadership support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Thompson Family Foundation, and Robert and Kathleen Wallace.

Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.

As of January, 2021.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Stefanie Batten Bland

Kolonial (World Premiere)

BAC Artist Commission
May 3-17, 2021

Kolonial, a collaboration between choreographer Stefanie Batten Bland and installation artist Conrad Quesen, is inspired by colonial exposition parks of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean during the 1810s-1940s. The dance cinema work interrogates systems of overharvesting, exploitation, and oppression, examining behaviors of self and community through transparent COVID barriers of isolation. 

Direction and Choreography: Stefanie Batten Bland
Direction and Cinematography: Jean Claude Dhien
Scenic Installation: Conrad Quesen
Installation Assistant: Anthony Quesen
Costume Design: Shane Ballard
Hair and Makeup: Damian Monzillo
Musical Composition: Grant Cutler
Performers: Miguel Anaya, Stefanie Batten Bland, Yeman Brown, Rachel Watson Jih, Jennifer Payán, Paul Singh, Latra A. Wilson
Montage: Victoria Roseburgh 
First Assistant AD: Victoria Roseburgh 
Production Manager: Emma Rivera 

Film Location: BAC's Jerome Robbins Theater

Stefanie Batten Bland was a 2012 BAC Resident Artist and BAC Presents Artist.

In Conversation: Stefanie Batten Bland with Eva Yaa Asantewaa
BAC presents a live-streamed conversation with Batten Bland and writer and curator Eva Yaa Asantewaa on Tuesday, May 11 at 5PM ET.
Live on ZOOM
Free / Registration required here beginning May 3 at 5pm ET


BAC Artist Commissions made possible with generous leadership support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Thompson Family Foundation, and Robert and Kathleen Wallace.

Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.

As of January, 2021.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

PlayBAC: Bonobo

Tú Amarás

Performances from the Archive
April 22-29, 2021

PlayBAC Series 4 features never-before-seen, high quality recordings of live performances from BAC’s 15-year history. PlayBAC videos include special introductions from Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Filmed February 14, 2020 in the Jerome Robbins Theater.

A group of Chilean doctors prepares for an international conference on prejudice in medicine, a subject complicated by the arrival of extraterrestrials who have settled on Earth to escape genocide. Making its U.S. debut, acclaimed Chilean theater collective Bonobo addresses violence in democratic contexts, giving new significance to the notion of The Other in contemporary society. Tú Amarás (You Shall Love) reflects on discrimination and marginalization with humor, irony, and sharp political critique.

Tú Amarás (You Shall Love) was developed in part during a BAC Residency.

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Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

PlayBAC: BAC Salon: Szymanowski, Berio + Debussy

Tesla Quartet and Alexandra Smither, soprano

Performances from the Archive
April 15-22, 2021

PlayBAC Series 4 features never-before-seen, high quality recordings of live performances from BAC’s 15-year history. PlayBAC videos include special introductions from Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Filmed September 19, 2018 in the Howard Gilman Performance Space.

A program of sumptuous turn of the 20th century masterworks for string quartet by Karol Szymanowski and Claude Debussy—both exemplifying groundbreaking harmonic pursuits of the time—and Luciano Berio’s Sequenza III, which incorporates coughing, laughing, whispering, speaking, and singing into one of the great modern feats for solo voice. Performed by the refined Tesla Quartet and Canadian rising star Alexandra Smither in her first New York appearance.

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Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

PlayBAC: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas

Verklärte Nacht

Performances from the Archive
April 8-15, 2021

PlayBAC Series 4 features never-before-seen, high quality recordings of live performances from BAC’s 15-year archive. PlayBAC videos include special introductions from Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Filmed February 1, 2019 in the Jerome Robbins Theater.

Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) is set to composer Arnold Schönberg's late Romantic score based on an 1866 poem by Richard Dehmel about a woman who confesses to the man she loves that she is pregnant with another man's child. Originally choreographed in 1995 for an ensemble, this 2014 reconstruction is derived from a process of reduction, concentrating the poem’s dramatic structure in an evocative dance for three performers from which the narrative lines and expressive modulations emerge.

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Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

In Conversation: Holland Andrews with Morgan Bassichis

Live on ZOOM
March 24, 2021

The Spring 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 Museum of Calm, extended-technique vocalist, performer, and composer Holland Andrews talks with performer Morgan Bassichis.

Andrews and Bassichis first met at PICA's T:BA festival where Andrews was a resident artist and Bassichis was performing their work Protest Songs. They have been friends and mutual admirers ever since, finding connection in their integration of healing into their respective work.

Museum of Calm is available to watch free, on demand March 15-29, Monday at 5PM ET until Monday at 5PM ET.
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BAC Artist Commissions made possible with generous leadership support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Thompson Family Foundation, and Robert and Kathleen Wallace.

Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.

As of January, 2021.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Holland Andrews

Museum of Calm (World Premiere)

BAC Artist Commission
March 15-29, 2021

Museum of Calm is a solo by extended-technique vocalist, performer, and composer Holland Andrews. Integrating vocal music composition, meditation, and performance art video, the work generates interior worlds to offer strategies for navigating through chaos, accessing freedom within fantasy, and sustaining the energy required to survive in a reforming society. 

Creator and Performer: Holland Andrews
Filmmaker: Tatyana Tenenbaum

Film Location: Baryshnikov Arts Center's John Cage & Merce Cunningham Studio

Holland Andrews was a collaborator of 2017 BAC Presents Artist and BAC Resident Artist Dorothée Munyaneza.

In Conversation: Holland Andrews with Morgan Bassichis
BAC presents a live-streamed conversation with Andrews and performer Morgan Bassichis on Wednesday, March 24 at 8PM ET.
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BAC Artist Commissions made possible with generous leadership support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Thompson Family Foundation, and Robert and Kathleen Wallace.

Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.

As of January, 2021.

Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

In Conversation: Mariana Valencia with Ali Rosa-Salas

Live on ZOOM
March 10, 2021

The Spring 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 brownout, multidisciplinary performer Mariana Valencia talks with performing arts curator Ali Rosa-Salas.

Valencia and Rosa-Salas first met during Valencia's 2016-17 artist residency at Brooklyn Arts Exchange. They will be creative collaborators on a forthcoming project.

brownout is available to watch free, on demand March 1-15, Monday at 5PM ET until Monday at 5PM ET.
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BAC Artist Commissions made possible with generous leadership support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Thompson Family Foundation, and Robert and Kathleen Wallace.

Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.

As of January, 2021.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Mariana Valencia

brownout (World Premiere)

BAC Artist Commission
March 1-15, 2021

brownout is a solo created, directed, and performed by Mariana Valencia that uses a series of movement and sound scores to play with narrative, abstraction, and inference. Generating a visual essay through the “stage” of the camera, shifting the frame from one lens to the next explores changes in electricity, visibility, and perception. 

Creator, Director, and Performer: Mariana Valencia

Film Location: Hudson Hall in Hudson, NY and Coxsackie, NY

In Conversation: Mariana Valencia with Ali Rosa-Salas
BAC presents a live-streamed conversation with Valencia and curator Ali Rosa-Salas on Wednesday, March 10 at 8PM ET.
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BAC Artist Commissions made possible with generous leadership support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Thompson Family Foundation, and Robert and Kathleen Wallace.

Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.

As of January, 2021.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center + Cherry Orchard Festival Foundation Co-Present

Arlekin Players Theatre

The Cherry Orchard: A New Media Workshop

February 26, 2021

The latest experiment from Boston’s award-winning company fuses film, theater, and video game technology to create a new medium where viewers interact with the performers. Adapted from Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and drawing from recordings of Chekhov’s letters and dreams, this interactive online theater experience accesses Chekhov’s desktop computer, where viewers discover six of his classic characters living in a virtual space searching for happiness.

The cast of celebrated stage, television, and film actors features Jessica Hecht with Anna Baryshnikov, Darya Denisova, Jeffrey Hayenga, Melanie Moore, Mark Nelson, Nael Nacer, and special guest Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Arlekin Players Theatre’s founder and director Igor Golyak has been a leading innovator of virtual theater since the start of the pandemic. His recent State vs. Natasha Banina was a Critic’s Pick in The New York Times by Maya Phillips who declared “The verdict is in: Zoom can, in fact, be an effective new stage for theater.”

This constitutes the first public sharing of Arlekin's new "proof of concept" for The Cherry Orchard, which is part of a larger project currently in development.


The Cherry Orchard: A New Media Workshop, co-presented by Baryshnikov Arts Center and Cherry Orchard Festival Foundation, is made possible with generous additional support from ArtsEmerson, Fooksman Family Foundation, ZiphyCare, BroadBand Collaborative, Meghan Coleman, Robin Hanley, and Aximmetry Technologies Ltd., the official software provider for Arlekin's Zero Gravity Lab.

Leadership support for BAC has been provided by Anonymous, Blavatnik Family Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Estate of James. H. Duffy, The Enoch Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in The New York Community Trust, New York State Council on the Arts, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Shubert Foundation, Thompson Family Foundation, Robert and Kathleen Wallace, and Dance/NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program, made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.

Past LIVE-STREAMED EVENT
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

In Conversation: Justin Hicks with Meshell Ndegeocello

Live on ZOOM
February 24, 2021

The Spring 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 Use Your Head For More, composer Justin Hicks talks with singer-songwriter and bassist Meshell Ndegeocello. They are joined by Hicks' collaborators.

Hicks and Ndegeocello became collaborators in 2016 when Hicks performed in Ndegeocello's music theater work Can I Get a Witness? The Gospel of James Baldwin at Harlem Stage. The two have since entered into extended conversation as peer artists and friends.

Use Your Head For More is available to watch free, on demand February 15 – March 1, Monday at 5PM ET until Monday at 5PM ET.
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BAC Artist Commissions made possible with generous leadership support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Thompson Family Foundation, and Robert and Kathleen Wallace.

Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.

As of January, 2021.

Past DIGITAL PRESENTATION
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents

Justin Hicks

Use Your Head For More (World Premiere)

BAC Artist Commission
February 15 - March 1, 2021

Presented as a series of audiovisual portraits, Use Your Head For More regenerates the transcript of a conversation between composer Justin Hicks and his mother, engaging found sound and personal archive in a performance of reimagining, remembering, and reminding.

Creator/Performer: Justin Hicks
Artistic Collaborator/Editing: Breck Omar Brunson
Artistic Collaborator/Lighting: Tuce Yasak
Additional Vocals: Jade Hicks
Additional Vocals: Jasmine Enlow
Camera and Styling: Kenita Miller-Hicks
Audio Mix: Sean Davis

Film Location: The artist’s home in Bronx, NY

Justin Hicks was a collaborator of 2014 BAC Resident Artist Kaneza Schaal and 2019 BAC Space Resident Artists Mallory Catlett and Aaron Siegel.

In Conversation: Justin Hicks with Meshell Ndegeocello 
BAC presents a live-streamed conversation with Hicks and his collaborators talking with singer-songwriter and bassist Meshell Ndegeocello on Wednesday, February 24 at 8PM ET.
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BAC Artist Commiss