Company dancers will perform excerpts from Mere Mortals prior to premiere
Tickets are on sale today via Works & Process (worksandprocess.org)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, August 22, 2023—San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) Artistic Director Tamara Rojo and choreographer Aszure Barton will be presented at Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum on Sunday, October 15 at 3 and 7:30 pm. In her first-curated season as artistic director, Rojo will center cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations, celebrate the artists and histories of San Francisco, and spotlight women’s voices on stage and off. The Works & Process program will offer a behind-the-scenes look at Rojo’s vision and illuminate the creative process of the newly commissioned ballet Mere Mortals, with music by Floating Points (aka Sam Shepherd) and choreography by Barton, which opens SF Ballet’s 2024 Repertory Season in January. Aiming to provide an immersive and visceral experience for the audience’s senses, Mere Mortals will recontextualize the classic parable of Pandora’s box and marks the first full-length work SF Ballet has commissioned from a female choreographer. Rojo and Barton will discuss Mere Mortals’ creative process and how the work will take on the possibilities and consequences of artificial intelligence, and SF Ballet dancers will perform excerpts.
Providing a platform for newly appointed artistic directors to share their vision, Works & Process’ fall calendar also includes conversations with American Ballet Theatre Artistic Director Susan Jaffe (October 8) and Dance Theatre of Harlem Artistic Director Robert Garland (October 29 and 30).
Works & Process at the Guggenheim
San Francisco Ballet: New Vision with Tamara Rojo and Aszure Barton
Sunday, October 15, 3 pm and 7:30 pm
https://www.worksandprocess.org/
$55, $45, $35, Choose-What-You-Pay
Peter B. Lewis Theater
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10128
ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO BALLET
San Francisco Ballet is a leading ballet company and trailblazer in dance locally, nationally, and internationally. Performing, commissioning, and collaborating with exceptional artists in dance and across disciplines, SF Ballet balances an innovative focus on new and contemporary choreography with a deeply held dedication to the classics. SF Ballet is a catalyst for the future of ballet by cultivating creativity, bringing dance of the highest caliber to a wide audience, and providing exceptional training opportunities for the next generation of professional dancers in its world-renowned School.
Since its founding in 1933 and as the oldest professional ballet company in the United States, the Ballet has been an innovator in the artform and an originator of beloved cultural traditions, from staging the first American production of Swan Lake to bringing an annual holiday Nutcracker to U.S. audiences.
ABOUT WORKS & PROCESS
A non-profit without walls, Works & Process champions performing artists and their creative process from studio to stage. We platform artists from the world’s largest organizations and amplify underrecognized performing arts cultures. In a philosophy akin to farm to table, our Works & Process LaunchPAD program offers artists commissioning support and fully-funded creative residencies with 13 partners in 8 counties in New York and Massachusetts. This fall, Works & Process will also present programming at the Guggenheim Museum and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in partnership with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Additionally seven Works & Process commissions created in our bubble and LaunchPAD residencies will tour to six states and the District of Columbia. Each summer Works & Process curates and presents free dance programs with City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage and NYC Parks.
Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” provides artists multi-week residencies with 24/7 studio availability, on-site housing, health insurance enrollment access, industry-leading fees, and transportation to residency partners.
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