NYU Skirball’s fall /winter 2022 season, opening on September 9, with Visitation, a world premiere dance choreographed by John Jasperse. The season will showcase cutting-edge dance, music, opera and theater premieres from an international roster of artists from the U.S., Belgium, Japan, Iran, Italy, France, Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast. The season will also feature public lectures, conversations, literary series and National Theatre Live film screenings.
Highlights of the season include:
· Text Play, a world premiere virtual event, will stream performances on the hour, 24-hours/day for 12 weeks, and imagines a text conversation between Tom Stoppard and Samuel Beckett
· N.Y. premiere of interdisciplinary artist Sarah Cameron Sunde’s 12-hour, 39-minute 36.5/ New York Estuary, performed in a tidal cove in the East River, during a full tide cycle
· North American premiere from France of Fraternity, A Fantastic Tale, choreographed by Caroline Guiela Nguyen, co-presented with FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival
· Meg Stuart|Damaged Goods returns to NYU Skirball with the North American premiere of VIOLET, featuring five dancers and live music from Belgium
· North American premiere from Japan’s Catapult Opera company of Toshio Hosokawa’s Hanjo, an opera and dance piece, directed and choreographed by Luca Veggetti, with live music by the internationally acclaimed Talea Ensemble
· New works by the Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA) featuring a world premiere by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, with the International Contemporary Ensemble
· SITI Company makes its NYU Skirball debut with Radio Macbeth, inspired by Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre
· North American premiere of choreographer Trajal Harrell’s Maggie the Cat, a provocative fusion of high art and pop culture, inspired by Tennessee William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
· North American premiere of Wakatt from Belgium’s Faso Danse Théâtre, by Burkina Faso choreographer Serge Aimé Coulibaly, with live music written and performed by Malik Mezzadri an Ivory Coast-born French flutist and jazz musician
· International Contemporary Ensemble returns for the season finale with the N.Y. premiere of Pathways by composer/musician Henry Threadgill, joined by Zooid
