Meredith Monk News

The Woman Who Went to Space as a Man - Part fact, part fever dream, and part musical, this captivating new work opens with Alice B. Sheldon - better known to sci-fi aficionados as author James Tiptree, Jr. - contemplating suicide. Dodging in and out of reality, the play, with a bold musical score from award-winning world music artist Yuval Ron, investigates gender, longing and creativity as self-exploration through one of the science fiction world's greatest literary tricksters.

Baruch Performing Arts Center is pleased to present the world premiere of Words on the Street, a hybrid music-theater event that wrestles with power, complacency, and excess. Originally written by Anna Rabinowitz as a series of poems, Words on the Street has been transformed into a unique production, collaboratively conceived and developed by Rabinowitz, director Kristin Marting, the late composer Matt Marks (1980-2018), and video designer Lianne Arnold. In response to the untimely death of Matt Marks, a community of composers, Lainie Fefferman, John Glover, Mary Kouyoumdjian, David T. Little, Kamala Sankaram, Caroline Shaw, and Randall Woolf have contributed additional compositions to create a highly original sonic world for the work. Music direction is by Mila Henry.

Bang on a Can All-Stars-joined by the Grammy Award-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street, led by Julian Wachner-will perform Julia Wolfe's Pulitzer Prize-winning Anthracite Fields on Saturday, December 1 at 9:00 p.m. in Zankel Hall.

 The National Children's Chorus of the United States (NCC), one of the world's leading choral institutions, will proudly celebrate its 10th Anniversary with Starlight, an unprecedented 2018/19 Season with more than 700 students in 20 ensembles taking the stage under a unified vision for music as a global force of hope. Led by Artistic Director Luke McEndarfer and Associate Artistic Director Dr. Pamela Blackstone, Starlight will include professional collaborations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, American Youth Symphony, and Grammy-winning soprano Jessica Rivera, under the baton of notable conductors Gustavo Dudamel and Carlos Izcaray, among others. World premieres will include a new piece by composer Nico Muhly, as part of the LA Phil's centennial, and will be followed by the orchestra's first-ever Disney Hall performances of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 (Symphony of a Thousand), in addition to a West Coast premiere of Cellular Songs by composer Meredith Monk. As part of Starlight, which will explore relationships between science and music, the lineup of extraordinary repertoire will go further to highlight the students' singing virtuosity with masterworks by Benjamin Britten, Gabriel Faure, Igor Stravinsky and Alexander Scriabin.

The National Children's Chorus of the United States (NCC), one of the world's leading choral institutions, will proudly celebrate its 10th Anniversary with Starlight, an unprecedented 2018/19 Season with more than 700 students in 20 ensembles taking the stage under a unified vision for music as a global force of hope. Led by Artistic Director Luke McEndarfer and Associate Artistic Director Dr. Pamela Blackstone, Starlight will include professional collaborations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, American Youth Symphony, and Grammy-winning soprano Jessica Rivera, under the baton of notable conductors Gustavo Dudamel and Carlos Izcaray, among others. World premieres will include a new piece by composer Nico Muhly, as part of the LA Phil's centennial, and will be followed by the orchestra's first-ever Disney Hall performances of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 (Symphony of a Thousand), in addition to a West Coast premiere of Cellular Songs by composer Meredith Monk. As part of Starlight, which will explore relationships between science and music, the lineup of extraordinary repertoire will go further to highlight the students' singing virtuosity with masterworks by Benjamin Britten, Gabriel Faur, Igor Stravinsky and Alexander Scriabin.

Baruch Performing Arts Center is pleased to present the world premiere of Words on the Street, a hybrid music-theater event that wrestles with power, complacency, and excess. Originally written by Anna Rabinowitz as a series of poems, Words on the Street has been transformed into a unique production, collaboratively conceived and developed by Rabinowitz, director Kristin Marting, the late composer Matt Marks (1980-2018), and video designer Lianne Arnold. In response to the untimely death of Matt Marks, a community of composers, Lainie Fefferman, John Glover, Mary Kouyoumdjian, David T. Little, Kamala Sankaram, Caroline Shaw, and Randall Woolf have contributed additional compositions to create a highly original sonic world for the work. Music direction is by Mila Henry.

What Will The Neighbors Say? is excited to announce the creative team for the workshop production of Founding Co-Artistic Director James Clements' latest play, Beauty Freak: Leni Riefenstahl's 'Olympia,' this November. The production will officially inaugurate the company's 2018-2019 season at the Plaxall Gallery in Long Island City, following a week long development workshop in the space.

The Gish Prize Trust today announced that the inspired Music and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, has been selected to receive the 25th annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in recognition of his ongoing achievements as a conductor and an advocate for music education. Established in 1994 through the will of legendary stage and screen actress Lillian Gish, known as the First Lady of Cinema, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize is one of the most prestigious honors given to artists in the United States and bears one of the largest cash awards, currently valued at approximately $250,000.

Following a successful 4-city tour of Florida that included a well-received appearance at the Forward Motion Physically Integrated Dance Festival in Miami, the company brings its vaunted skill set back to the Bay Area with select performances that include a newly reconceived staging of Robert Dekkers' Flutter, along with AXIS Artistic Director Marc Brew's Quartet No.1 to the Berkeley Ballet Theater, that will then be followed by a collaboration with Crowded Fire Theater, Star Finch, and Ensemble Mik Nawooj at the Bay View Opera House in San Francisco entitled Death Become Life: Banish Darkness, all before segueing to its 2019-20 season that will include a special Oakland-based educational event for Dance Access Day in February, as well as the world premiere of Alice in Oakland-their ambitious and much anticipated collaboration with Arthur Pita-coming to and co-presented by Z Space in San Francisco, November 2019

In an EYE ON DANCE video episode on "The Challenges Facing Female Choreographers," produced in 1988, EOD moderator Celia Ipiotis investigates the topic with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (founder of Urban Bush Women; Sarah Skaggs, modern dancer/choreographer and Miriam Mahdaviani, former NYC Ballet corps member and first female choreographer at NYCB. The EOD video conversation focuses on challenges faced by female choreographers in a male dominated choreographic field.

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Rosanne Cashreturns to Carnegie Hall this season to curate and host American Byways, a two-concert exploration in Zankel Hall highlighting the rich and disparate elements in American roots music.

Zephyr's SITE/less, Defibrillator Gallery, Pivot Arts Collaborate on Nov-Dec Festival Three presenters of experimental performance art are collaborating in three Chicago neighborhoods to present Video Corpo, a festival of video work celebrating movement-based artists who have used video as an extension of their practice and/or as an alternative corporeal perspective. Video Corpo takes place Nov. 16-Dec. 7 at Defibrillator Gallery, 1029 W. 35th Street; Nov. 17-Dec. 7 at Zephyr's space SITE/less, 1250 W. Augusta Boulevard; and Nov. 30 at Chicago Filmmakers, 5720 N. Ridge Avenue, in a program presented by Pivot Arts.

The Woman Who Went to Space as a Man - Part fact, part fever dream, and part musical, this captivating new work opens with Alice B. Sheldon - better known to sci-fi aficionados as author James Tiptree, Jr. - contemplating suicide. Dodging in and out of reality, the play, with a bold musical score from award-winning world music artist Yuval Ron, investigates gender, longing and creativity as self-exploration through one of the science fiction world's greatest literary tricksters.

Acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Janis Brenner will appear in the world premiere of the full-length dance/voice/theatre solo work, Inheritance: A Litany presented by the acclaimed United Solo Theatre Festival, October 4 & 11, 2018 at 7:30pm Off-Broadway at Theater Row, Off- NYC, at 410 W. 42nd St. Tickets are $45 in advance or at the door, and are available at 212-239-6200, at the theater, or at www.unitedsolo.org/us/inheritance-2018.

La MaMa presents the World Premiere of Slanty Eyed Mama's newest show, Zombie Asian Moms with monologue, comedy and spoken word by Kate Rigg and electric violin fueled songs by Slanty Eyed Mama (the duo of Kate Rigg and Lyris Hung) at The Downstairs at La MaMa

LA MAMA, the 2018 Tony Award winning theater in NYC, in association with Howl Arts Inc., announce performance extension of KINK HAÜS. Created by and starring Philadelphia fringe performance artist, Gunnar Montana, in his New York City stage debut. KINK HAÜS, having previously been scheduled through October 6th, will now play through October 14th.

Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota is pleased to present baritone John Brancy and pianist Peter Dugan performing "Armistice: The Journey Home," Saturday, November 3, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, November 4, 3:00 p.m., at the Historic Asolo Theater, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota. The program, which tells the story of men and women who must find their way back home, literally and figuratively, from the ravages of war, features a compelling selection of music by Holst, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Irving Berlin, Pete Seeger, and more. Reserved seat tickets are $25 to $45 and are available online at www.artistseriesconcerts.org or by calling 941-306-1202. $10 student tickets are available at the door with current student ID.

One of the oldest theaters in NYC - 74 E. 4 St., home to the 2018 Tony Award-winning La MaMa in the East Village - will mark the start of its first-ever restoration and renovation since the building was constructed in 1873 with a GROUNDBREAKING EVENT attended by Tony winning composer and longtime La MaMa company member SCOTT WITTMAN (Hairspray, the upcoming remake of Mary Poppins), NYC Deputy Mayor ALICIA GLEN, TOM FINKELPEARL (Commissioner of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs), BRAD HOYLMAN (NY State Senator), NYC Council Member CARLINA RIVERA, the world-renowned National Medal of Arts recipient PING CHONG, La MaMa Artistic Direct MIA YOO and Board President FRANK CARUCCI, along with performers from the SPIDERWOMAN THEATRE and THE SILVER CLOUD SINGERS.

Sacred Music in a Sacred Space begins its 2018-2019 Season by welcoming patrons into the intimate Wallace Hall at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (980 Park Avenue) for a Caritas Concert.