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BAM Presents the World Premiere of Dance-Chamber Opera BAM presents the world premiere of dance-chamber opera Hagoromo—a bold experiment in hybrid form featuring world- renowned talents Wendy Whelan, Jock Soto, and International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), produced by American Opera Projects—Nov 3*—8 *Additional show added; please note new opening date Tues, Nov 3 at 7:30pm Bloomberg Philanthropies is the Season Sponsor Hagoromo International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Brooklyn Youth Chorus Music by Nathan Davis Libretto by Brendan Pelsue Choreography by David Neumann Puppetry by Chris M. Green Conducted by Nicholas DeMaison Conceived and directed by David Michalek Presented in association with American Opera Projects Set design by Sara Brown Lighting design by Clifton Taylor Costumes by Dries Van Noten Sound Design by Jody Elff Dramaturgy by Norman Frisch BAM Harvey Theater (651 Fulton St.) Nov 3, 5—7 at 7:30pm, Nov 8 at 3pm Tickets start at $25 Brooklyn, NY/Sep 28, 2015—A world premiere work, Hagoromo reunites former NYCB principal dancers Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto in a multidisciplinary work of dance- chamber opera inspired by one of the masterpieces of Japanese Noh drama and featuring contralto Katalin Károlyi and tenor Peter Tantsits, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and Brooklyn Youth Chorus. The ancient tale of Hagoromo involves a desolate island and the fateful encounter between a poor fisherman and a fallen angel A thoroughly contemporary vision conceived and directed by David Michalek and produced by AOP, this retelling is a bold experiment in hybrid forms harnessing extraordinary talent across an array of artistic and creative mediums: a chamber opera commissioned by ICE and AOP, omposed by Nathan Davis with a libretto by Brendan Pelsue, choreography by David Neumann, puppetry by Chris M. Green, dramaturgy by Norman Frisch, and costumes created by the celebrated Belgian designer Dries Van Noten. The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), described by The New York Times as “one of the most accomplished and adventurous groups in new music,” is dedicated to reshaping the way music is created and experienced. With a modular makeup of 35 leading instrumentalists, performing in forces ranging from solos to large ensembles, ICE functions as performer, presenter, and educator, advancing the music of our time by developing innovative new works and new strategies for audience engagement. ICE redefines concert music as it brings together new work and new listeners in the 21st century. Now in its 24th season, the Grammy Award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus, under the direction of Founder & Artistic Director Dianne Berkun-Menaker, is a collective of young singers and vocal ensembles re-envisioning choral music performance through their distinctive sound, artistic innovation, and collaboration with classical and contemporary artists. With a versatile range and unique repertoire Brooklyn Youth Chorus combines intensive vocal training and music study with exceptional performances. The Chorus has been touted by The New York Times as a “consistently bold organization” that regularly commissions and presents new music in genre-defying forms. Composers commissioned to date include Nico Muhly, David Lang, Bryce Dessner, Missy Mazzoli, Paul Moravec, Julia Wolfe, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Shara Worden, John King, Colin Stetson, and others. Our diverse student body of over 500 young people, ages seven to 20, represents nearly 200 schools citywide. Classes take place at our Cobble Hill headquarters and neighborhood locations in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Red Hook, Brooklyn. Nathan Davis "writes music that deals deftly and poetically with timbre and sonority" (The New York Times). Lincoln Center inaugurated the TullyScope Festival with the premiere of Davis' landmark work Bells and presented other premieres at the Mostly Mozart Festival. Commissioned by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Calder Quartet, Yarn/Wire, La Jolla Symphony Chorus, Steven Schick, Donaueschinger Musiktage, and the Ojai Festival (with sound sculptor Trimpin), Davis’ music has been performed widely both nationally and internationally. With Phyllis Chen he scored Sylvia Milo's acclaimed monodrama The Other Mozart. Recordings of his music include The Bright and Hollow Sky, one of Time Out NY's top five classical albums of 2011. (nathandavis.com) Brendan Pelsue is a playwright, librettist, and translator currently pursuing an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama, where past projects include Parking Lot, Riverbank: a Noh Play for Northerly Americans, and a translation/adaptation of Molière’s Dom Juan. A Huntington Playwriting Fellowship finalist and one of Cutting Ball Theater’s “Risky Playwrights,” his work has been produced or developed by groups including the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Corkscrew Theater Company, the Telephonic Literary Union, Tiny Dynamite, and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. As artistic director of Advanced Beginner Group, David Neumann’s work has been widely presented throughout New York, at venues including PS 122, Central Park Summer Stage, Celebrate Brooklyn!, Symphony Space, The Whitney at Altria, The Kitchen, Abrons Arts Center, and New York Live Arts. David Neumann and Advanced Beginner Group have received four Bessie Awards; Neumann has been awarded a 2011 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award for Dance, a 2013 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Choreography, and a 2014 MacDowell Fellowship. Recent projects include directing Geoff Sobelle's The Object Lesson (2014 Next Wave Festival) at BAM and choreographing Soho Rep’s Obie Award- winning production of An Octoroon. Chris M. Green is a Brooklyn-based designer, performer, composer, and director. His theatrical, sound, and installation works have been presented in venues including Lincoln Center, New York City Center, National Geographic Museum, La Jolla Playhouse, St. Anne’s Warehouse, Goethe Institute (Delhi), Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Teatro del Lago (Chile), among others. His Brooklyn-based design studio Chris Green Kinetics has received awards from the American Association of Museums, Themed Entertainment Association, and AIA. Recent honors include Creative Capital Award (2009), MacDowell Fellowship (2012), and LMCC Process Space residency (2013). Currently, Green is developing his new play American Weather through the HERE Resident Artist and Dream Music Programs with support from the Jim Henson Foundation. Along with wife Erin K. Orr, Green teaches an intensive performance workshop, “The Language of Things,” both nationally and internationally David Michalek’s work ranges from photography, video/sound and light installations, live performance, and site-specific works of public art, and has been widely presented nationally and P internationally in venues including the Brooklyn Museum, the Louvre, and the Edinburgh Festival. Notable projects include 14 Stations, a work that grew out of Michalek’s work with 22 men and women transitioning out of homelessness, and Slow Dancing—a free outdoor, multi-channel video installation of hyper-slow-motion video portraits of dancers commissioned by Lincoln Center Festival and projected nightly on the facade of the New York State Theater which went on to tour worldwide. Commissioned in 2005 to create a ciné-roman for Peter Sellars’ Kafka Fragments—a staged setting of composer Gyorgy Kurtag's searing work for soprano and violin—Michalek, then artist-in-residence at The Bridge, Inc., a day home for people living with mental illness, drew on his activities and interactions with patients to create a compelling film of still images. More recently, Michalek directed and lit two solo flute performances for Claire Chase at The Kitchen and was commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the LA Music Center to create a work of video to be shown throughout a performance of six Bach solo violin works by Gil Shaham. He is a visiting faculty member at Yale Divinity School, where he lectures on religion and the arts. Founded in 1988, American Opera Projects is at the forefront of the contemporary opera movement, commissioning, developing, presenting, and producing opera and music theater projects, collaborating with young, rising, and established artists, and engaging audiences in unique and transformative theatrical experiences. AOP has produced over 30 world premieres, including Kaminsky/Reed/Campbell's As One (BAM, 2014), Nkeiru Okoye's Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom (Irondale Center, 2014), and Lera Auerbach's The Blind (co- production with Lincoln Center Festival, 2013). Other notable premieres include Kimper/Persons' Patience & Sarah (1998), Weisman/Rabinowitz's Darkling (2006), Lee Hoiby's This is the Rill Speaking (2008), and Phil Kline's Out Cold/Zippo Songs (2012 Next Wave Festival). AOP- developed operas that premiered with co-producers include Stefan Weisman's The Scarlet Ibis at PROTOTYPE Festival (2015), Gregory Spears' Paul's Case at Urban Arias (2013) and PROTOTYPE Festival and Pittsburgh Opera (2014), Jack Perla's Love/Hate at ODC Theater with San Francisco Opera (2012), Stephen Schwartz's Séance on a Wet Afternoon at New York City Opera (2011), Tarik O'Regan's Heart of Darkness at London's Royal Opera House (2011) and Opera Parallèle (2015). AOP’s core program comprises Composers & the Voice, First Chance, I Hear America Singing, and AOP Helping Hands. (aopopera.org) Wendy Whelan, dubbed “America’s greatest contemporary ballerina” by The New York Times, joined the New York City Ballet corps de ballet in 1986 and was promoted to
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