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Announces Lineup for Third DIRECT CURRENT, Its Contemporary Culture Immersion (March 8–21) Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 5, 2019 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Announces Lineup for Third DIRECT CURRENT, Its Contemporary Culture Immersion (March 8–21) Focus on Female Creators – Including Ellen Reid, Patti Smith, and Jeanine Tesori – Honors 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage; Other Artists Include Chris Thile and Washington National Opera Press photos available HERE (WASHINGTON, D.C.)—DIRECT CURRENT, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’s two-week celebration of contemporary culture, returns for a third season. With special emphasis on female creators, on works new to the District of Columbia, and on interdisciplinary creations, the 2020 spring immersion showcases some of the most provocative, original and pioneering voices in the arts today. DIRECT CURRENT takes place on March 8–21 at the Kennedy Center—including the flexible indoor and outdoor spaces of the REACH, its unprecedented new expansion—and beyond. Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted women’s suffrage. To honor this milestone centennial, DIRECT CURRENT 2020 not only shines a light on female artists and their work, but also collaborates with the Vital Voices Global Partnership. This D.C.-based, international non-profit provides a support network and platform for women leaders in all disciplines around the world, helping to make their vision for global change a reality through long-term investments to develop their skills, expand their connections, and enhance their visibility. DIRECT CURRENT’s wealth of offerings span the artistic spectrum, from the D.C. premieres of two major new operas to an interactive light show and bold new experiments in dance. Prominent female creators in attendance include Ellen Reid, Jeanine Tesori, and Patti Smith, while performers range from Chris Thile to the Washington National Opera. All told, DIRECT CURRENT’s third season offers a snapshot of contemporary culture through a thoughtfully curated collection of work by some of today’s foremost cultural risk-takers. International Women’s Day International Women’s Day 2020 falls on March 8, which marks the launch of the third DIRECT CURRENT with Vital Voices’ annual Global Mentoring Walk. This event brings together more than 200 women of all ages and walks of life for a day of mentorship and inspiration. Selected young professionals, chosen from among members of the public who sign up at the Vital Voices website, will be paired with female leaders in their fields to walk together in the open, informal spaces of the REACH, the Kennedy Center’s celebrated new expansion. After sharing life and career advice, the walk participants will attend a private panel discussion led by two eminent female role models: Kennedy Center president Deborah Rutter and Vital Voices president Alyse Nelson (The REACH, March 8). Mainstage events Each year, the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards honor creative and fearless women around the world who lead the way in strengthening democracy, increasing economic opportunity, boosting political engagement, and protecting human rights. Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, the 2020 Global Leadership Awards gather together a host of inspiring women as honorees, award presenters and guests. Each honoree will be introduced by means of a specially produced film that celebrates her leadership journey and bold vision for change in her community (Concert Hall, March 11). Throughout the two weeks of DIRECT CURRENT, there will also be an accompanying exhibition: Vital Voices: 100 Women Using Their Power to Empower. Presented in collaboration with Vital Voices, the exhibition comprises penetrating portraits of female leaders by award-winning artist and illustrator Gayle Kabaker, widely known for her popular New Yorker covers (Hall of Nations, March 8–21). DIRECT CURRENT is thrilled to present the D.C. premiere of p r i s m, the surreal and haunting first opera by composer Ellen Reid, which explores the trauma of sexual abuse and the elasticity of memory that can follow in its wake. Set to a libretto by Roxie Perkins and developed by Beth Morrison Projects, the work has been recognized with both the Music Critics Association of North America’s “Best New Opera Award” and the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Music. As at its LA Opera and PROTOTYPE Festival premieres last year, the Kennedy Center’s production is by “gifted young American director” James Darrah (Chicago Tribune) with musical direction by Grammy®–nominated conductor Julian Wachner, choreography by No One Art House co-founder Chris Emile, and performances from soprano Anna Schubert and mezzo-soprano Rebecca Jo Loeb, who reprise the starring roles they created and “perfectly carried off” (Boston Globe) in Los Angeles and New York, with support from the Grammy®– nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street and the contemporary music specialists of Trinity Church Wall Street’s NOVUS NY orchestra. Both Reid and Perkins will be in attendance to take part in a post- performance panel discussion on the opening night (Terrace Theater, March 13 & 14). American Public Media’s Live from Here currently reaches 2.6 million listeners on nearly 600 public radio stations from its new Manhattan home. Now D.C. audiences can attend a live broadcast of the nationally syndicated, weekly variety show on tour at DIRECT CURRENT, where MacArthur fellow and four-time Grammy®–winning mandolinist Chris Thile, a member of both Nickel Creek and the Punch Brothers, hosts an all-female lineup of guest artists (Concert Hall, March 14). Next, the Washington National Opera (WNO) presents the D.C. premiere of Blue, a new chamber opera from Tony Award®-winning composer Jeanine Tesori and NAACP Theatre Award-winning librettist-director Tazewell Thompson. Drawing inspiration from contemporary events and the writings of James Baldwin, Claude Brown, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, their new work uses gospel-influenced music and vivid flashbacks to capture the grief of a family and community ravaged by loss at the hands of the police. As at its recent Glimmerglass Festival premiere, the opera—a WNO co-production— stars the “superb” trio (New York Times) of Kenneth Kellogg, Briana Hunter, and Aaron Crouch under the baton of John DeMain, in an exploration of race, violence and reconciliation that the New York Times called “powerful—as well as sadly timely,” and the Financial Times, in a five-star review, proclaimed “an exceptionally strong new opera” (Eisenhower Theater, March 15, 18 & 20). For its penultimate mainstage event, DIRECT CURRENT presents a music and dance double-bill crowned by the East Coast premiere of 1 0 0 1 (2019), performed live by its creators: choreographer and Company Wayne McGregor member Fukiko Takase, “a diabolo of a dancer” (Evening Standard, UK) best-known for her viral video collaboration with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, and composer Dustin O’Halloran, whose original scores for Marie Antoinette, Lion, and Transparent have been recognized with Oscar® and Golden Globe nominations and an Emmy Award. Produced, as at its premiere in Minneapolis, by Kate Nordstrum, a “curatorial powerhouse with international pull” (Minnesota Public Radio), 1 0 0 1 explores ideas of technology, humanity, and mind-body dualism in an existential, electronics-forward performance. It shares the program with Variations, an in-depth look at the “theme and variations” structure by Dance Metro DC Award–winning choreographer Erica Rebollar, founder of the Rebollar Dance collective, to original music by Golden Reel Award winner Charlie Campagna (Terrace Theater, March 19). DIRECT CURRENT’s mainstage season draws to a close with an evening of music and poetry from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame punk icon and National Book Award-winning poet Patti Smith; her daughter, the composer, instrumentalist, and activist Jesse Paris Smith; and Canadian cellist and composer Rebecca Foon, a co-founder of the Juno Award-winning Esmerine ensemble. To complete the evening, the three women will lead the audience in the D.C. premiere of Little Sunrise, an interactive lightshow by trailblazing Danish-Icelandic visual artist Olafur Eliasson. This features the solar-powered LED lamps Eliasson designed for off-grid areas, as seen at Coachella and London’s Tate Modern (Concert Hall, March 21). Free multi-genre performances on the Millennium Stage and other KC spaces To amplify the wealth of mainstage offerings, each evening during DIRECT CURRENT there will also be free live multi-genre performances on the Millennium Stage and other Kennedy Center venues, where the voices of female creators will once again predominate. Highlights include jazz sets from trumpeter Jaimie Branch, a mainstay of the Chicago jazz scene who is now, as Jazz Times put it, “one of the most thrilling new voices of the New York avant-garde” (Studio K, March 11) and Chilean singer-guitarist Camila Meza, “a luminous fixture on the scene in New York” (NPR), who joins her eight-piece Nectar Orchestra to perform music from their Sony Masterworks label debut, Ámbar (Studio K, March 14). Sarah Sherman, aka Sarah Squirm—“a true alternative comic [who] has quickly made her mark on Chicago’s scene” (Chicago Tribune)— shares her signature mix of feminism, self-loathing and performance art (Millennium Stage, March 21), and the REACH hosts the D.C. premiere of Forte (2019), a new documentary written and directed by American filmmaker David Donnelly. Following the unconventional journeys of three female classical artists—Tatiana Berman, a Russian-born former prodigy who brings music into underserved U.S. schools; Lucía Caruso, an Argentinean-born film composer; and Eldbjørg Hemsing, a young Norwegian violinist on the brink of stardom – Donnelly’s film challenges outdated notions of classical success and spotlights the strength that all three women share (Justice Forum, March 12). A wealth of additional free events will be announced early next year.
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