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ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER IN PERFORMANCE AND CONVERSATION

On the opening day of her dance installation at Kunstsammlung NRW, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker will participate in an artist talk with Kunstahalle Basel director and curator Elena Filipovic, who edited De Keersmaeker’s exhibition catalog Work / Travail / Arbeid.

The installation—curated by Isabelle Malz—is a reconception of De Keersmaeker’s 1982 work FASE, FOUR MOVEMENTS TO THE MUSIC OF STEVE REICH. The piece will also be performed once in a stage version at Tanzhaus NRW.

The dancers—in alternating pairs—are Laura Bachman and Soa Ratsifandrihana, and Yuika Hashimoto and Laura Maria Poletti.

Following the presentation in Düsseldorf, De Keersmaeker will return to New York City where she is choreographing Ivo van Hove’s new Broadway production of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s West Side Story. Previews begin on December 10, with opening night set for February 6, 2020.

ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER / ROSAS—FASE, FOUR MOVEMENTS TO THE MUSIC OF STEVE REICH installation

October 29–November 10, 2019.

Starting every hour from noon.

ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER IN CONVERSATION with ELENA FILIPOVIC

Tuesday, October 29, at 6 pm.

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20

Grabbeplatz 5, Düsseldorf.

ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER / ROSAS—FASE, FOUR MOVEMENTS TO THE MUSIC OF STEVE REICH stage adaptation

Saturday, November 9, at 8 pm.

Tanzhaus Nordrhein-Westfalen

Erkrather Strasse 30, Düsseldorf.

From top: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker; De Keersmaeker (left) and Michèle Anne De Mey performing Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich in 1999, photograph by Stephanie Berger (second from top and below); De Keersmaeker, Fase, 2018, Soa Ratsifandrihana (left) and Laura Bachman (2); Laura Maria Poletti; Ratsifandrihana and Bachman; Yuika Hashimoto and Poletti; Hashimoto; photographs by Anne Van Aerschot. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker—Work / Travail / Arbeid, edited by Elena Filipovic, image courtesy and © Wiels (above). Dance images courtesy and © the choreographer, the dancers, and the photographers.

MARIAN ANDERSON

The National Portrait Gallery exhibition ONE LIFE—MARIAN ANDERSON “[explores] the life of the famed contralto, her achievements, and how she became a symbol of the civil rights movement.”*

The show is curated by Leslie Ureña.

“Recognized as one of the greatest American singers of the twentieth century, Anderson is best remembered for her legendary performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where she sang in 1939 after segregationist policies barred her from theaters across Washington, D.C. However, this exhibition broadens the focus, delving into underexplored moments of Anderson’s decades-long career as a celebrated singer and diplomat. It also highlights the ways she inspired visual artists, ranging from Harlem Renaissance painter Beauford Delaney to fashion photographer Irving Penn.”*

ONE LIFE—MARIAN ANDERSON*

Through May 17.

National Portrait Gallery

8th and F Streets NW, Washington, D.C.

From top: Robert S. Scurlock, Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial, 1939, gelatin silver print, Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution; Beauford Delaney, Marian Anderson, 1965, oil on canvas, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, J. Hardwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art; Allen T. Winigrad, Marian Anderson rehearsing with Aaron Copland, 1976, chromogenic print, cibachrome; William Henry Johnson, Marian Anderson, circa 1945, oil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of the Harmon Foundation; Irving Penn, Marian Anderson, New York, 1948, gelatin silver print, © Irving Penn Foundation; Ruth Orkin, Marian Anderson and Leonard Bernstein, 1947, gelatin silver print, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Brian Lanker, Marian Anderson, 1989, gelatin silver print. Winigrad, Penn, and Lanker photographs from the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia. Images courtesy the National Portrait Gallery.

NED ROREM

Boston Court presents pianists Brent McMunn and Paul Floyd, soprano Graycen Gardner, and tenor Todd Strange in a rare performance of FOUR DIALOGUES, by Ned Rorem.

Also on the bill: works by Leonard Bernstein and Michael Welsh.

NED ROREM—FOUR DIALOGUES

Friday, September 28, at 8 pm.

Pre-show discussion with the musicians at 7:15 pm.

Boston Court, 70 North Mentor Avenue, Pasadena.

See: A Ned Rorem Reader.

Image credit above and top: George Braziller.

Below: Ned Rorem in Paris, 1953.

CANDIDE AT THE MUSIC CENTER

Leonard Bernstein’s operetta CANDIDE (1956)—musical theater’s polymorphous masterpiece—started out as a Cold War retort against McCarthyism, with a libretto by Lillian Hellman, and lyrics by film writer James Agee (which were dropped), Richard Wilber, John Latouche, and Dorothy Parker. In the 1970s, a book by Hugh Wheeler—truer to Voltaire’s satire—replaced Hellman’s (who had prohibited use of her work in any revivals).

The acclaimed production now at the Music Center—directed by Glimmerglass Festival general director Francesca Zambello, and conducted by James Conlon—is a co-production of Glimmerglass, the Opéra National de Bordeaux, and Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, and features the John Caird libretto from his 1999 Royal National Theatre staging.

Jack Swanson stars as Candide, the disillusioned optimist, and Erin Morley as his elusive love Cunegonde. Broadway legend Christine Ebersole plays the Old Lady, and Kelsey Grammer performs double duty as Voltaire and the misguided Professor Pangloss.

 

CANDIDE

Thursday, February 8, at 7:30 pm; Sunday, February 11, at 2 pm; Thursday, February 15, at 7:30 pm; and Saturday and Sunday, February 17 and 18, at 2 pm.

DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION, Music Center, downtown Los Angeles.

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From top:

Erin Morley, Brian Michael Moore, and Danny Lindgren in CandideL.A. Opera, 2018.

Morley, Jack Swanson, and Christine Ebersole in Candide, L.A. Opera, 2018. Photographs by Ken Howard.

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KEIGWIN + COMPANY DANCE BERNSTEIN

Leonard Bernstein’s centenary is being celebrated by orchestras, opera companies, museums, book publishers, and arts organizations around the world.

This weekend at CSUN, the troupe Keigwin + Company will dance two world premieres set to Bernstein compositions: SONATA (based on the composer’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano), and THREE PLUS ONE (from Piano Trio).

Also on the bill (both from 2014) are EPISODES—which draws from Bernstein’s music for On the Town—and WATERFRONT, a piece based on his work for Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront, Bernstein’s only score written for a Hollywood studio.

 

KEIGWIN + COMPANY CELEBRATES BERNSTEIN

Saturday, February 3, at 8 pm.

VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, CSUN, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, Los Angeles.

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Monday, February 5, at 7 pm.

MC CALLUM THEATRE, 73000 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert.

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From top: Dancer Nicholas Ranauro of Keigwin + Company.

Keigwin + Company, Keigwin Celebrates Bernstein rehearsal. Image courtesy Keigwin + Company.

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