Director and choreographer Pavel Zuštiak (NYC) will create HEBEL, a new large-scale stage performance exploring the metaphysical poetry of life: its cycles, passages, transience, and the certainty of death. Through an interdisciplinary, visually evocative, and emotionally charged lens, HEBEL confronts identity, worth, and the search for meaning in an increasingly destabilized world.
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.
HEBEL is a Palissimo production, commissioned by NYU Skirball. HEBEL will be researched, developed and honed with financial, administrative and residency support from Dance in Process at Gibney with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. HEBEL will be developed during the Bogliasco Foundation residency as well as through The Princess Grace Foundation-USA Works-in-Progress Residency.

Pavel Zuštiak
Pavel Zuštiak is a Slovak-American director and choreographer. Often described as human and humane, his interdisciplinary works are visually evocative and emotionally piercing.