Director Gisela Cardenas (NYC) will develop Hybrid Suite No. 2: The Carmen Variations, a hybrid opera that mixes electronic music with acoustic instruments and opera-trained musicians conceived as an answer to Bizet's Carmen. Excavating different layers of feminine eroticism, the work challenges stereotypes of foreignness and femininity.
Leadership support for BAC has been provided by Altman Foundation, Anonymous, 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, New York State Council on the Arts, Princess Grace Foundation-USA, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Thompson Family Foundation, and Dance/ NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program, made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Ford Foundation provides leadership support for international residencies.
Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.
Gisela Cardenas
Gisela Cardenas' work has been seen in the UK, Germany, Peru, Brazil, Romania, The Netherlands, Norway, and the USA. Awards and Memberships: Princess Grace Theater Fellowship & Award (2007& 2012), 2008 Phil Killian Directing Fellow (OSF), 2008-10 Women's Project Director’s Lab, recipient of the TCG/NEA 2009/2011 Career Development Program for Directors.