U.S. Premiere of William Forsythe's
YOU MADE ME A MONSTER /
Art Is Otherwise Festival
March 6 & 7, 2007
WILLIAM FORSYTHE’S You Made Me a Monster
Time: 7pm, 8pm, 9pm, 10pm
Tickets: $20
Venue: Baryshnikov Arts Center, Howard Gilman Performance Space
450 West 37th Street, 4th floor
Phone Ticket Central Box Office at 212-279-4200
Online: www.ticketcentral.com
In its North American premiere at the Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) on March 6 and 7, William Forsythe’s You Made Me a Monster is a compelling and provocative installation performance that combines dance, vocal concert and sonic environment. In this highly personal work chronicling a body besieged by cancer, intricate and somewhat grotesque skeletal sculptures fill the performance space. Dancers and audience members alike move through the installation and interact with these life-sized tangles of bones. Spectators can build onto the skeletal models with extra pieces available in the space, but without the guidance of instructions or diagrams. The anatomically impossible skeletons that emerge provide shapes and shadows that the dancers “read” as a score for their improvisations. You Made Me a Monster premiered in Venice in 2005. Each night includes four 50-minute performances scheduled every hour, starting at 7pm. There is no admittance to children under the age of 12.
On March 7, Toni Morrison and William Forsythe will engage in a public dialogue about the work at BAC. Admission is free. Reservations are required.
Art Is Otherwise, from March 5 through March 8, 2007 in New York City, is a four-day festival conceived by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison mirroring the multidisciplinary series she created at the Louvre in November 2006. Art Is Otherwise examines the theme of “The Foreigner’s Home” in three programs. In addition to William Forsythe’s You Made Me a Monster, the festival will feature a lecture by Toni Morrison at the French Institute Alliance Française and an evening of chamber music at BAC, performed by The Alliance Players with commentary by Toni Morrison onstage.
On March 8, The Alliance Players will perform an evening of chamber music at BAC, featuring pieces introduced by Toni Morrison to illustrate the theme of exile in music. Focusing on composers who went into exile – or were in exile in their homeland – the program will showcase compositions by eighteenth-century West Indies composer Chevalier de Saint Georges, African-American composer Harry Thacker Burleigh, Gustav Mahler, as well as New York-inspired works by Antonín Dvorák and pieces from Arnold Schoenberg’s American period.
Art Is Otherwise is a collaboration based on the series The Louvre Invites… at the Louvre Auditorium in Paris. In 2005, the Louvre Auditorium launched this annual program to reach beyond customary programming and to inspire Louvre curators and the public to consider the collections in their political, social, and cultural contexts.
Art is Otherwise is presented by the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, the French Institute Alliance Française, the Forsythe Foundation, the Musée du Louvre, and American Friends of the Louvre. Additional support is provided by Rolex.
Other Events Include
March 5, 2007
LECTURE BY TONI MORRISON
Time: 7pm
Tickets: $15 (FIAF members & students: $10)
Venue: French Institute Alliance Française (Florence Gould Hall)
55 East 59th Street (between Park & Madison Aves.)
In-person advance sales: Tues 11am-7pm | Wed-Fri 12-7pm | Sat 12-4pm
Phone/Ticketmaster: 212-307-4100
On-line: www.ticketmaster.com
Information: www.fiaf.org / 212-355-6160
March 6 & 7, 2007
WILLIAM FORSYTHE’S You Made Me a Monster
Time: 7pm, 8pm, 9pm, 10pm
Tickets: $20
Venue: Baryshnikov Arts Center, Howard Gilman Performance Space
450 West 37th Street, 4th floor
Phone Ticket Central Box Office at 212-279-4200
On-line: www.ticketcentral.com
March 7, 2007
DIALOGUE BETWEEN TONI MORRISON & WILLIAM FORSYTHE
Time: 6pm
Admission is free. Reservations are required. Seating is limited.
Phone 646-731-3200, press #4
Venue: Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street
March 8, 2007
CONCERT WITH ALLIANCE PLAYERS AND TONI MORRISON
Time: 8pm
Tickets: $20 (students: $15)
Venue: Baryshnikov Arts Center, Howard Gilman Performance Space
450 West 37th Street, 4th floor
Phone Ticket Central Box Office at 212-279-4200
On-line: www.ticketcentral.com
Information:
646-731-3200
www.baryshnikovdancefoundation.org
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