During the fall 2024 Works & Process season a full slate of dynamic events will take place at the Guggenheim Museum Manhattan West and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Highlights include two new commissions which will preview and premiere in the Guggenheim’s Peter B. Lewis Theater. Works & Process will also collaborate on two Guggenheim Member Mondays in the Guggenheim rotunda presenting the Ladies of Hip-Hop calling for all to jump into the circle and dance plus an interactive lesson from NYCity Tango Collective. A detailed schedule of events follows.
The Works & Process season begins with Gather Round a free outdoor series organized with Brookfield Properties Arts & Culture that will take place at Manhattan West Plaza event circle. Inspired by the competitions of the summer Olympics in Paris and the debut of breakdancing as an Olympic sport Works & Process will feature a celebration of street and club dance battles every Wednesday in September. See breakdancers compete in an event by Kwikstep and Rokafella in Behind The Groove admire as members of the ballroom dance community walk categories in the Gather Round Kiki Ball watch the Fabulous Waacking Festival Fall Edition with Princess Lockerooo and witness a beatbox battle with The Beatbox House. This series exemplifies Works & Process’s sustained commitment to street and social dance previously presented in the Guggenheim rotunda.
Championing the creative process at each step from studio to stage Works & Process amplifies support for performing artists while providing the public behind-the-scenes access to new works with programs that blend performance and artist discussions to foster greater understanding and appreciation. Works & Process is a non-profit performing arts organization without walls. Through collaborations and partnerships Works & Process aggregates resources to support longitudinal creative process. In a philosophy akin to farm-to-table Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” offers artists fully funded creative residencies with fourteen partners spanning Massachusetts New Jersey and New York. This fall the Guggenheim Museum Manhattan West with Brookfield Properties Arts & Culture and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Jerome Robbins Dance Division will host events produced by Works & Process. Works & Process’s impact will be felt further afield as numerous commissions created in LaunchPAD residencies tour nationally and internationally.
After three successful years LaunchPAD residencies continues to provide longitudinal and made-to-measure support for artists including industry-leading creative residency fees of $1050 per artist per week transportation health insurance enrollment access 24/7 studio availability and on-site housing. Recognizing that the artistic process is a continuum public engagements during the residency illuminate the creative process with local communities. Culminating performances in New York City provide artists $400 per artist per performance.
General ticketing starts July 25 at worksandprocess.org.
All programs offer tickets starting at $15 or free ticketing options.
SEASON AT A GLANCE
Works & Process Commissions
- Commission Preview: Music From The Sole – Sept 30
- To the Body by Nico Muhly in partnership with Guggenheim Asian Art Initiative – Nov 10
- Third Bird by Isaac Mizrahi and Nico Muhly with Dance Heginbotham and Ensemble Connect conducted by Michael P. Atkinson – Dec 14
Productions
- Peter & the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev with Isaac Mizrahi Dance Heginbotham and Ensemble Connect conducted by Michael P. Atkinson – Dec 6 7 and 8
- Rotunda Holiday Concert: Charles Turner & Uptown Swing with Jasmine Rice LaBeija – Dec 15
Highlights and Discussions
- The Metropolitan Opera: Grounded by Jeanine Tesori libretto by George Brant – Sept 9
- Opera Philadelphia and Lyric Opera of Chicago: The Listeners by Missy Mazzoli libretto by Royce Vavrek – Sept 15
- American Ballet Theatre: Crime and Punishment by Helen Pickett – Sept 22
- Documentary Preview and Discussion: No Dancing Allowed with LaTasha Barnes Sekou Heru Aidan Gibney Jared Harbour and Ellen Ling – Sept 23
- Martha Graham Dance Company: Baye & Asa – Sept 29
- New York City Ballet: Caili Quan Tiler Peck and Gianna Reisen – Oct 6
- School of American Ballet at 90 – Oct 7
- Tango Essence with Pedro Giraudo's Tango Quartet – Nov 18
Rotunda Dance Parties with Guggenheim Member Mondays
- Ladies of Hip-Hop – Sept 23
- NYCity Tango Collective in conjunction with the exhibition Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris 1910-1930 – Nov 18
Works & Process Commissions on Tour
- Music From The Sole’s I Didn’t Come to Stay
- The Big Show with Princess Lockerooo & The Fabulous Waack Dancers
- The Missing Element featuring The Beatbox House
- LayeRhythm
- LaTasha Barnes’s The Jazz Continuum
- Ephrat Asherie Dance’s UNDERSCORED
- Ladies of Hip-Hop: Black Dancing Bodies Project: “SpeakMyMind”
Works & Process at the Guggenheim
1071 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10128
Tickets starting at $15
The Metropolitan Opera
Grounded by Jeanine Tesori libretto by George Brant
Monday September 9 7 pm
See highlights from two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s newest opera Grounded with a libretto by George Brant author of the original play. Wrestling with the ethical quandaries and psychological toll of twenty-first-century warfare this Met commission focuses on Jess a hotshot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas operating a reaper drone halfway around the world. As she struggles to adjust to this new way of doing battle she fights to maintain her sanity and her soul as she is called to rain down death by remote control. Met General Manager Peter Gelb moderates a discussion with the creative team and members of the cast perform selections from the opera.
Opera Philadelphia and Lyric Opera of Chicago
The Listeners by Missy Mazzoli libretto by Royce Vavrek
Sunday September 15 7 pm
Composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek follow their hit opera Breaking the Waves with a thriller about the seductive power of cults and charismatic leaders in a divided nation. Co-commissioned and co-produced with Opera Philadelphia Lyric Opera of Chicago and Norwegian National Opera The Listeners examines the lengths to which we as Americans are willing to go to find a sense of place and purpose and the way in which confident charming leaders can exploit these needs to their own ends. Prior to the American premiere at Opera Philadelphia in September 2024 and Lyric Opera of Chicago in March 2025 members of the creative team will discuss their creative process and excerpts will be performed.
American Ballet Theatre
Crime and Punishment by Helen Pickett
Sunday September 22 3 and 7 pm
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment is a devastatingly modern psychological thriller that provided choreographer Helen Pickett and director James Bonas with a startling source for a ballet. Pickett brings the work to life in a striking new ballet featuring music by Isobel Waller-Bridge sets and costumes by Soutra Gilmour lighting design by Jennifer Tipton and video design by Tal Yarden. Before the premiere American Ballet Theatre Artistic Director Susan Jaffe moderates a discussion with members of the cast and creative team and excerpts are performed.
Documentary Preview and Discussion
No Dancing Allowed
with LaTasha Barnes Sekou Heru Aidan Gibney Jared Harbour and Ellen Ling
Monday September 23 7 pm
Don’t miss this first look of No Dancing Allowed by Earthbound Studio a documentary co-executive produced by Works & Process investigating the intersection of Street Dance culture and governmental policies in New York City. Whether it was Lindy Hop in the 1920s or House in the 1980s Street Dance has remained a ritual for Black communities despite its threatened survival. By diving into New York City’s past and present this film unveils the turbulent evolution of Street Dance into the cultural behemoth it is today. Through interviews with practitioners clubheads and policymakers learn firsthand of the club era at its height and the destruction that the New York City government set in motion. No Dancing Allowed is a story of ingenuity culture erasure and most of all resilience. See a preview of the documentary and members of the creative team including LaTasha Barnes Sekou Heru Aidan Gibney Jared Harbour and Ellen Ling will participate in a moderated discussion.
After the documentary preview head to the rotunda for a dance party and join the cipher with the Ladies of Hip-Hop in conjunction with the Guggenheim’s Member Mondays and presented by Works & Process.
Rotunda Dance Party
Ladies of Hip-Hop
Monday September 23 8 pm
Jump into the cypher with the Ladies of Hip-Hop (LOHH) an all-female intergenerational dance collective that creates dance works illuminating the strength power and diversity of women in hip-hop. LOHH interweaves the embodied experiences of women creating a communal fabric that paints a picture of a more global women experience. In conjunction with the Guggenheim’s Member Mondays and presented by Works & Process the evening will be hosted by MC and LOHH member Alora Tonielle and the Ladies of Hip-Hop will bring the party to the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda!
Martha Graham Dance Company
Baye & Asa
Sunday September 29 7 pm
See highlights from a Martha Graham Dance Company commissioned expansion of choreographers Baye & Asa’s Cortege 2023. Inspired by Martha Graham’s Cortege of Eagles in which the ferryman for the underworld Charon foreshadows the fall of Troy Baye & Asa’s work asks “Who is the ferryman for the fall of the American Empire?” This evening culminates a weeklong Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at the Catskill Mountain Foundation and Baye and Asa will participate in a moderated discussion with artistic director Janet Eilber. Martha Graham Dance Company members will perform excerpts prior to the work’s premiere.
W&P Commission Preview
Music From The Sole
Monday September 30 7 pm
Blurring the line between concert dance and music performance Music From The Sole is a tap dance and live music company that celebrates tap’s roots in the African diaspora. Led by Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer Leonardo Sandoval and composer and bassist Gregory Richardson Music From The Sole draws from Afro-Brazilian jazz soul house rock and Afro-Cuban styles. See a preview of a new Works & Process commission that culminates a weeklong Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park.
Commissioned by Works & Process this work has been developed in a Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park (2024) and an upcoming residency in January 2025 at Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence.
This new work is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Works & Process the Joyce Theater Foundation The Yard Guild Hall Dance Place Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and NPN. More information: npnweb.org. Additional support was provided by the Harkness Dance Foundation a 2023 Alan M. Kriegsman Creative Residency at Dance Place and as 2023 William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence at Guild Hall.
New York City Ballet
Caili Quan Tiler Peck and Gianna Reisen
Sunday October 6 7 pm
Go behind the scenes of the three ballets comprising New York City Ballet’s 2024 Fall Fashion Gala performance. See highlights from Caili Quan’s first work for the company set to music by Camille Saint-Saëns which will premiere at the gala on Wednesday October 9. Explore Gianna Reisen’s 2022 commission for the School of American Ballet Signs set to music by Philip Glass. Longtime principal dancer Tiler Peck known for her astute sense of musicality discusses her hit ballet from the 2024 winter season and first New York City Ballet commission Concerto for Two Pianos set to music by Francis Poulenc. Company members perform excerpts.
School of American Ballet at 90
Monday October 7 7 pm
On January 2 1934 George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein opened the doors of the School of American Ballet (SAB) on Madison Avenue in New York City. Celebrate SAB’s 90th anniversary and the impact the school has had on ballet in America.
W&P Commission
To the Body by Nico Muhly
Sunday November 10 7 pm
In partnership with Guggenheim Asian Art Initiative
To the Body is an immersive soundscape created for the exhibition Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust on view concurrently with the 60th Venice Biennale. It is a work in ten sections played without pause and repeated without seam in which fragments of Dietrich Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri (1680) appear but are themselves disembodied from their original context. A soprano sings a line drawn from the original cantata over a bed of electronically manipulated sounds Renaissance and Baroque instruments and other voices. The primary musical and emotional elements are memory contortion and recontextualization; these act hand in hand with Yu Hong’s work as well as in counterpoint to them.
To the Body was commissioned by Works & Process with support from the American Academy in Rome and the Guggenheim’s Asian Art Circle.
Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust is organized by Alexandra Munroe Senior Curator at Large Global Arts Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and is a program of the Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Initiative that is supported by the museum’s Asian Art Circle.
Tango Essence with Pedro Giraudo's Tango Quartet
Monday November 18 7 pm
Experience the soul of tango in an evening created by Mariana Parma with tango dancer Leonardo Sardella Latin Grammy-award-winner Pedro Giraudo and his Tango Quartet featuring singer Sofia Tosello. Presented by Works & Process in conjunction with the Guggenheim Museum exhibition Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris 1910–1930 see the connection between works by Orphist artists including Sonia Delaunay and the circular forms spirals arching patterns and constellations of paired bodies moving with the synthesis and electric tension emblematic of tango. A social dance tango enables people of different ages cultures and backgrounds to meet in an “embrace.” Originated in the 1880s along the Rio de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay the tango quickly spread to the rest of the world including Paris and intertwining with the artists of the Orphist movement. View the exhibition see a one night only performance in the theater and join in an interactive dance lesson and social dance for all in the rotunda.
In conjunction with Member Mondays.
Rotunda Dance Party
NYCity Tango Collective
Monday November 18 8 pm
Come dance in the rotunda with the NYCity Tango Collective! This group of professional dancers from Argentina and Uruguay with more than 25 years of experience aims to spread tango throughout NYC. In conjunction with the Guggenheim’s Member Mondays and with the Guggenheim’s exhibition Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris 1910–1930 Works & Process opens the Guggenheim rotunda to NYCity Tango for a tango dance class taught by the collective and followed by a social dance party.
Peter & the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev with Isaac Mizrahi
Dance Heginbotham with Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect conducted by Michael P. Atkinson
Friday December 6 6:30 pm
Saturday December 7 11 am 1 and 2:30 pm
Sunday December 8 1 2:30 and 4 pm
Isaac Mizrahi narrates and directs Sergei Prokofiev’s charming children’s classic Peter & the Wolf accompanied by Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect conducted by Michael P. Atkinson. The cast wearing costumes by Mizrahi performs choreography by John Heginbotham bringing the thirty-minute story to life for the young and young at heart.
No matter how tall or small everyone needs a ticket.
W&P Commission
Third Bird by Isaac Mizrahi and Nico Muhly
Dance Heginbotham with Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect conducted by Michael P. Atkinson
Saturday December 14 2:30 and 4 pm
Since 2007 Works & Process has produced sold-out performances of Sergei Prokofiev’s charming children’s classic Peter & the Wolf directed and narrated by Isaac Mizrahi. After over one hundred performances Mizrahi was inspired to create an homage to this iconic work and during the COVID-19 pandemic Works & Process commissioned Third Bird. Highlighting a cast of eight—including a flying bluebird a swimming duck and a running ostrich—danced by Dance Heginbotham accompanied by Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect and conducted by Michael P. Atkinson Third Bird celebrates each individual’s unique strengths.
No matter how tall or small everyone needs a ticket.
Commissioned by Works & Process Third Bird was developed in a Works & Process bubble residency at Catskill Mountain Foundation in spring 2021 with the support from the Mellon Foundation and Doris Duke Foundation. Third Bird also received a Works & Process LaunchPAD residency in winter 2021 at The Church in Sag Harbor New York.
Rotunda Holiday Concert
Charles Turner & Uptown Swing with Jasmine Rice LaBeija
Sunday December 15 7 pm
Celebrate the season with festive music rooted in the tradition of jazz swing and the blues. For this evening Charles Turner & Uptown Swing along with Asian drag artist and Juilliard-trained tenor Jasmine Rice LaBeija will fill the museum’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda with the joyous sound of holiday music as part of a beloved annual tradition.
Works & Process at Manhattan West with Brookfield Properties Arts & Culture
Manhattan West Event Plaza 385 9th Ave New York NY 10001
Free RSVP encouraged
Gather Round: Street and Club Dance Battles
Wednesdays in September
Behind The Groove: CeleBreak Outside! with Kwikstep and Rokafella
Wednesday September 4 4:30 pm
Gather Round Kiki Ball
Wednesday September 11 4:30 pm
Fabulous Waacking Festival Fall Edition with Princess Lockerooo
Wednesday September 18 4:30 pm
Manhattan West Beatbox Battle with The Beatbox House
Wednesday September 25 4:30 pm
Works & Process at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Jerome Robbins Dance Division
40 Lincoln Center Plaza New York NY 10023
Free RSVP required
West African Dance to AfrikFusion
Intergenerational Stories with Marie Basse-Wiles & Omari Wiles
Thursday November 14 6 pm
In this event decades of tradition creation preservation innovation and transference of knowledge are on view with West African dance cultural icon Marie Basse-Wiles and her son Ballroom Legend Omari Wiles. A principal with the National Ballet of Senegal from 1973 to 1980 Wiles after immigrating to America in 1982 founded the Maimouna Keita School of African Dance (MKSAD) in Brooklyn.
For 32 years MKSAD has brought together the African diaspora in an annual conference and Basse-Wiles has trained generations of renown artists whose impact continues to resonate the world over including tours to Senegal Mali Gambia and Guinea.
Her son Omari Wiles has followed in her footsteps while walking to the beat of his own drum founding his own company Les Ballet Afrik (LBA) and creating AfrikFusion informed by Ball Culture Vogue and West African dance. Commissioned by Works & Process to collaborate on a new intergenerational work Djapo that brings together MKSAD and LBA and mother and son we present the start of this new work that is the continuation of a rich dance history.
Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” Residencies
Supporting longitudinal creative process with a network of residency partners spanning Massachusetts New Jersey and New York Works & Process LaunchPAD provides sequenced and made-to-measure residencies with industry-leading fees of $1050 per artist per week transportation health insurance enrollment access 24/7 studio availability and on-site housing. These offerings culminate in public sharings with local communities. Culminating performances in New York City provide artists with fees of $400 per performance.
ArtYard
LayeRhythm
Jan 2–11
Bethany Arts Community
KR3TS (Keep Rising to the Top)
with Violeta Galagarza
Aug 27–Sept 10
Omari Wiles and Marie Basse-Wiles
Les Ballet Afrik and Maimouna Keita School of African Dance
Nov 15–22
Wus Poppin NYC with Kwikstep and Rokafella
Dec 12–20
MasterZ at Work Dance Family
Jan 2–9
Bridge Street Theatre
KR3TS (Keep Rising to the Top)
with Violeta Galagarza
Jan 2–9
Catskill Mountain Foundation
Martha Graham Dance Company
Baye & Asa
Sept 23–28
The Church
Emily Coates
Jan 2025
Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence
Music From The Sole
Jan 2025
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
Music From The Sole
Sept 23–29
Modern Accord Depot
MasterZ at Work Dance Family
Oct 6–13
The Pocantico Center
Afro Latin Soul with Sekou McMiller & Friends
Dec 2–8
Additional Partners
Chautauqua Institution
Millay Arts
NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts
Watermill Center
The Yard
Works & Process Commissions on Tour
Music From The Sole’s I Didn’t Come to Stay
Aug 20–21: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Oct 5: MASS MoCA with Jacob’s Pillow
Princess Lockerooo & The Fabulous Waack Dancers: The Big Show
Aug 24: Jacob’s Pillow
The Missing Element featuring The Beatbox House
Aug 25: Yale Schwarzman Center
Sept 28: University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
LayeRhythm
Sept 7: Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Oct 16: USC Visions and Voices
LaTasha Barnes’s The Jazz Continuum
Sept 14: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Ephrat Asherie Dance: UNDERSCORED
Sept 20–24: La Mercè Festival
Ladies of Hip-Hop Black Dancing Bodies Project: “SpeakMyMind”
Sept 21: Orcas Center
Works & Process Lead Donors
Lead funding provided by Adam Flatto and Abigail Houser Ford Foundation Bart Friedman and Wendy Stein Howard Gilman Foundation Christian Humann Foundation Leon Levy Foundation National Endowment for the Arts NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Stephen Kroll Reidy Rockefeller Brothers Fund Caroline M. Sharp The Evelyn Sharp Foundation and Anonymous.
Additional support provided by Jody and John Arnhold Cate Caruso Stuart H. Coleman and Meryl Rosofsky The Fanwood Foundation Agnes Gund Mertz Gilmore Foundation New York State Council on the Arts Denise and Andrew Saul Elizabeth Sharp and Wes Edens Randall Sharp and the Simian Foundation.
Works & Process is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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. We provide rare longitudinal and fully-funded creative residencies and commissioning support. We present at the Guggenheim Museum Manhattan West and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. 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 spanning counties in New Jersey New York and Massachusetts.
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