MetLiveArts Presents March Performances

MetLiveArts presents the following programs for the month of March, including Modern Voices, Kannapolis, and more.

Modern Voices, Then and Now
Friday, March 3, 7:00 p.m., The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
This program pairs works of world-renowned composers/performers Nico Muhly, Nadia Sirota, Carolyn Shaw, and Andy Akiho with pieces by burgeoning young stars and winners of PUBLIQuartet's national emerging composers competition, PUBLIQ Access. These exciting, visceral, and haunting works aim to engage listeners with musical narrative while re-imagining the aesthetic and challenging the technical possibilities of the string quartet.
Tickets Start at $40.

PUBLIQuartet is the 2016-17 Quartet in Residence.

Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait (New York Premiere)
Friday, March 17, 7:00 p.m., The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Music by Jenny Scheinman
Film by Finn Taylor
All footage shot by H. Lee Waters between 1936 and 1942

Based on the work of nearly forgotten photographer H. Lee Waters, Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait uses an original live score of folksongs, fiddle music, and field songs to transport you into the lives of ordinary people living in the South during the Great Depression. Singer and violinist Jenny Scheinman and her band shape Waters's short films into a truly "moving" portrait.

Tickets start at $40.
Commissioned by Duke Performances at Duke University.

Divisor (Divider)
Saturday, March 25, 11:00 a.m.
Raindate: Sunday, Mar. 26, 11:00 a.m.

Spectator participation isn't just encouraged-it's necessary for this reenactment of Brazilian artist Lygia Pape's Divisor (1968). We invite the public to join in as we walk Pape's original blank "canvas" in a procession from The Met Breuer to The Met Fifth Avenue. With this current staging of the seminal work, we revisit Pape's embrace of experimentation, process, contingency, experience, and desire to break down the space between the artist and the viewer.

Originally staged in the streets of the artist's native Rio in 1968, this free performance coincides with the opening of the exhibition Lygia Pape, on view at The Met Breuer, March 21-July 23, 2017.

Arrival time at The Met Breuer is 10:30 a.m. This event is free. Registration is required. [Please note: This event is at capacity and registration is closed. However, spectators are invited.]

Presented in collaboration with Madison Avenue Business Improvement District.

Miracles in Miniature: Songs of Personal Devotion, 1500-1540
Sunday, March 26, 1:00 p.m., Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters

The renowned early music ensemble Boston Camerata performs sacred songs, prayers, and chants from the early Renaissance, led by Artistic Director Anne Azéma, an unrivaled interpreter of medieval French music and text. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures, on view at The Met Cloisters Feb. 22-May 21, 2017.

Tickets start at $40.

Tan Dun: Terracotta Symphony (World Premiere) and Hero Concerto Friday,

March 31 at 7:00 p.m., and Saturday, Apr. 1 at 2:00 p.m., The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Featuring The Juilliard Orchestra, conducted by Tan Dun.

The exhibition Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C.-A.D. 220), on view April 3-July 16, 2017, brings to The Met the terracotta warrior sculptures that were buried with the Emperor Qin Shi Huang to protect him in the afterlife. To celebrate this extraordinary exhibition, MetLiveArts commissioned a new work from composer Tan Dun-Terracotta Symphony, based on music from his opera, The First Emperor, featuring terracotta drums sourced specifically for this piece. Also on the MetLiveArts: March Performances program is Hero Concerto for violin and orchestra, with music drawn from Tan Dun's film score for Zhang Yimou's Hero.

Tickets start at $65.

Ongoing

Artist in Residence
Throughout the 2016-17 season, the sound artist and master storyteller Nate DiMeo- whose popular podcast, The Memory Palace, a finalist for the 2016 Peabody Awards, paints vivid, poetic pictures of episodes in American history inspired by The Met. DiMeo's fourth original episode was released on February 15. All episodes will be available for download and streaming on The Met website at metmuseum.org/MemoryPalace, as well as on The Memory Palace podcast.

The Museum Workout (World Premiere) Extended:
Monday, Feb 27, through Sunday, March 5; and Tuesday, March 7, through Thursday, March 9; The Met Fifth Avenue

Conceived and choreographed by Monica Bill Barnes & Company Narration and route by Maira Kalman

An entirely original and moving new work commissioned by MetLiveArts, The Museum Workout is the result of a collaboration between today's most clever and daring artists and innovators, the contemporary American Dance Company Monica Bill Barnes & Company and writer/illustrator Maira Kalman. For this multi-disciplinary work, a small group of audience-participants embark on a physical and interactive journey through The Met in the morning hours, before it opens to the public. Through constant movement, exercises, and light stretching, led by choreographer Monica Bill Barnes and dance partner Anna Bass (wearing sequined dresses and tennis shoes), participants experience an awakening to their surroundings unlike any other Museum tour. Connecting with the art and the overwhelming power of the galleries by activating one's own body and mind makes this new work so radical. Kalman selects the artworks visited along the tour and the Workout soundtrack mixes her recorded voice with Disco and Motown hits.

Tickets start at $75. [Please note: These events are sold out.]

For tickets and information, visit www.metmuseum.org/tickets or call 212-570- 3949. Tickets are also available at the Great Hall Box Office, which is open MondaySaturday, 11 am-3:30 pm Tickets include admission to the Museum on day of performance. Prices are subject to change.

Bring the Kids for $1 tickets for children (ages 7-16) are available for all performances (unless specifically noted) when accompanied by an adult with a full-price ticket. For more information, visit www.metmuseum.org/tickets, call 212-570-3949, or visit the box office.

About MetLiveArts

The critically acclaimed performance series at The Metropolitan Museum of Art commissions and presents contemporary performance through the lens of the Museum's exhibitions and gallery spaces. MetLiveArts invites artists, performers, curators, and thought-leaders to create groundbreaking new work, including live and digital performances, as well as site-specific durational performances that have been named some of the most "memorable" and "best of" performances in New York City by the New York Times, New Yorker, and Broadway World.

Credits PUBLIQuartet, Quartet in Residence This residency is made possible by the Grace Jarcho Ross and Daniel G. Ross Concert Fund.

Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait
This performance is made possible in part by Kelly and Gerry Pasciucco.

Nate DiMeo, Artist in Residence
This residency is made possible by the Chester Dale Fund.

The Museum Workout
This program is made possible by the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the One World Fund, and Jody and John Arnhold and the Arnhold Foundation.

Divisor
This presentation of Divisor (Divider) is made possible by the Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Fund and Kelly and Gerry Pasciucco.

Tan Dun: Terracotta Symphony (World Premiere) and Hero Concerto
This commission is made possible by The Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation.

Lygia Pape March 21-July 23, 2017
The exhibition is made possible by The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Foundation and The Garcia Family Foundation.
It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with Projeto Lygia Pape.

Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C.-A.D. 220) April 3-July 16, 2017
The exhibition is made possible by the Joseph Hotung Fund, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.

Education programs are made possible by The Freeman Foundation. Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures February 22-May 21, 2017 The exhibition is made possible by the Michel David-Weill Fund. It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.