Performance
Full on Forsythe
March 7–17, 2019
Boston Opera House
www.bostonballet.org
The Boston Ballet’s 2019 spring season will open with Full on Forsythe by choreographer William Forsythe. The program features the world premiere of Playlist (EP), driven by an eclectic mix of hip-hop and R&B songs; the North American premiere of Blake Works I, set to music by Grammy-nominated musician James Blake; and Pas/Parts 2018, featuring an electronic score by Thom Willems. To attend the event, purchase tickets at www.bostonballet.org.
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The Barre Project (Blake Works II)
Thursday, March 25, and Saturday, March 27, 2021, 8pm EDT
During the pandemic William Forsythe, New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck, and online arts education platform CLI Studios came together to create a ballet performance coordinated completely via Zoom. Inspired by dancers worldwide who were unable to access formal classes but committed to sustaining themselves and their art, The Barre Project consists of five musical episodes that focus on the most primary feature of ballet training: barre. Each premiere will have live introductions and question-and-answer sessions with Forsythe and Peck. To watch the performance, register at go.clistudios.com.
William Forsythe, The Barre Project (Blake Works II), 2021, performed by (left to right) Brooklyn Mack, Tiler Peck, Lex Ishimoto, and Roman Mejia
Exhibition
Broadcast
Alternate Meanings in Film and Video
You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
—Timothy Leary
Gagosian is pleased to present Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video, an online exhibition of artists’ films and videos viewable exclusively on gagosian.com. The exhibition will be organized into a series of “chapters,” each lasting two weeks. The first chapter begins on Tuesday, May 19, 2020.
Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video employs the innate immediacy of time-based art to spark reflection on the here and now, taking the words of famed psychologist and countercultural icon Timothy Leary as its starting point.
Adam McEwen, Escape from New York, 2014 (still from “Battery Tunnel”) © Adam McEwen
Visit
Dhaka Art Summit
February 7–15, 2020
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
www.dhakaartsummit.org
William Forsythe and Ellen Gallagher are participating in Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements. Over nine days, five hundred artists, scholars, curators, and thinkers will join in panel discussions, performances, and symposia addressing the theme: “What is a movement and how do we ignite one beyond the confines of an art exhibition?” The event is free and open to the public.
Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher, Osedax, 2010 (still) © Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher
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