FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 5, 2013 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson (212) 875-5718; [email protected]

TWO WORKS BY STRAVINSKY TO BE PREMIERED IN MOVIE THEATERS SEPTEMBER 12

NEW YORK CITY SCREENINGS TO INCLUDE CITY CINEMAS 1, 2 & 3, September 12 at 7:00 p.m. BOW TIE CHELSEA CINEMAS, September 18 at 7:30 p.m.

FILM TO SCREEN IN THEATERS THROUGHOUT THE U.S., CANADA, EUROPE, AND AUSTRALIA

DISTRIBUTED BY SPECTICAST

RECORDING OF A DANCER’S DREAM TO BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AS DOWNLOAD FROM MAJOR ONLINE MUSIC STORES AND STREAMING ON SPOTIFY — SEPTEMBER 10

Music Director Conducts the in a Theatrical Reimagining of The Fairy’s Kiss and Petrushka A Collaboration with

Starring Ballet Principal Dancer SARA MEARNS Directed/Designed by Choreographed by KAROLE ARMITAGE Produced by EDOUARD GETAZ

The New York Philharmonic’s acclaimed 2012–13 season-finale program, A Dancer’s Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky — conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert and starring principal dancer Sara Mearns in a production created by Giants Are Small — will premiere in movie theaters worldwide on Thursday, September 12, 2013. In New York City the film will be screened at City Cinemas 1, 2 & 3 (1001 Third Avenue) on Thursday, September 12 (more)

A Dancer’s Dream Screening / 2 at 7:00 p.m. and at Bow Tie Chelsea Cinemas (260 West 23rd Street) on Wednesday, September 18 at 7:30 p.m. A Dancer’s Dream will be shown on screens throughout the United States — including movie theaters, performing arts centers, senior living communities, libraries, and schools — in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other cities. Additionally, A Dancer’s Dream will be shown internationally on screens in Canada, Europe, and Australia. For more information about U.S. and worldwide screening locations, visit dreamonscreen.com.

This unique cinema event, produced by the New York Philharmonic and distributed by SpectiCast, will include the complete concert broadcast, behind-the-scenes footage, and a brief intermission feature on Stravinsky’s history with the New York Philharmonic, featuring video and other exclusive material from the New York Philharmonic Digital Archives. This will be the second New York Philharmonic concert broadcast in movie theaters, following the acclaimed 2011 production of Stephen Sondheim’s Company.

An audio recording of A Dancer’s Dream, produced by the Philharmonic, will be available for purchase in major online music stores, including iTunes, and available on Spotify beginning on September 10.

A Dancer’s Dream is a multidisciplinary, theatrical reimagining of Stravinsky’s The Fairy’s Kiss and Petrushka, created by Giants Are Small. Sara Mearns, New York City Ballet principal dancer, stars in the production, which is conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert, directed and designed by Doug Fitch, choreographed by Karole Armitage, and produced by Edouard Getaz. The performances — which took place in Avery Fisher Hall at , June 27–29, 2013 — were hailed by the press, including The New York Times, which described the production as “exhilarating,” the performances as “spirited and spontaneous,” and wrote, “Is this the future of the American orchestra? Let’s hope so.”

Blending music with dance, live animation, pre-recorded video, puppetry, and circus arts, A Dancer’s Dream blurs the lines between reality and imagination, audience and performer. Using Stravinsky’s The Fairy’s Kiss and Petruskha as the foundation for a new narrative, the production chronicles the story of a young woman, played by Ms. Mearns, and her dream of becoming a dancer. Entranced by the music, she is “kissed” by the passion to become an artist and drawn into the performance, dancing to the complete score of The Fairy’s Kiss. By the second act, she has completed her transformation into an artist, becoming Columbine in Petrushka. The production turned Avery Fisher hall into a dream world through costumes, sets, staging, and live filmmaking, Giants Are Small’s signature technique in which a real-time feed of musicians, puppets, and miniatures is projected above the Orchestra.

The performances featured lighting design by Clifton Taylor, costume design by Irina Kruzhilina, and make-up by Margie Durand. Emmy Award winner Habib Azar, whose previous work on filming Philharmonic concerts includes Chinese New Year Celebration — The Year of the Snake (2013), is the director of the film production.

The New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert last collaborated with Doug Fitch, Edouard Getaz, and their production company Giants Are Small in June 2011 for the acclaimed production of Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, which was also choreographed by Karole Armitage. In June (more)

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2010 the New York Philharmonic and Giants Are Small staged Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, a critical success that was named the number one cultural event of the year by several news outlets.

About the New York Philharmonic Founded in 1842, the New York Philharmonic is the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States and one of the oldest in the world; on May 5, 2010, it performed its 15,000th concert — a milestone unmatched by any other symphony orchestra in the world. The Orchestra has always played a leading role in American musical life, championing the music of its time, and is renowned around the globe, having appeared in 432 cities in 63 countries — including its October 2009 debut in Vietnam and its February 2008 historic visit to Pyongyang, DPRK, earning the 2008 Common Ground Award for Cultural Diplomacy. The Philharmonic’s concerts are broadcast on the weekly syndicated radio program The New York Philharmonic This Week, streamed on nyphil.org, and have been telecast annually on Live From Lincoln Center on U.S. public television since the series’ premiere in 1976. The Philharmonic has made almost 2,000 recordings since 1917, with more than 500 currently available. The first major American orchestra to offer downloadable concerts, recorded live, the Philharmonic released the first-ever classical iTunes Pass in 2009–10; the self-produced recordings continue with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2013–14 Season. The Orchestra has built on the long-running Young People’s Concerts to develop a wide range of education programs, including the School Partnership Program, enriching music education in New York City, and Learning Overtures, fostering international exchange. Alan Gilbert became Music Director in September 2009, succeeding Lorin Maazel in a distinguished line of 20th-century musical giants that goes back to and Arturo Toscanini. Credit Suisse is the New York Philharmonic’s Global Sponsor.

About Giants Are Small Since its founding in 2007 by American director and visual artist Doug Fitch, Swiss filmmaker and producer Edouard Getaz, and multimedia entrepreneur Frederic Gumy, Giants Are Small has risen to become one of the most out-of-the-box and celebrated production companies in New York. Collaborating with top orchestras and exceptional contemporary talents, Giants Are Small is known for its extraordinary range of genre-bending productions, which capitalize on its signature fusion of theater, live filmmaking, music, and visual art.

The 2010 Giants Are Small production of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre for the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Alan Gilbert, was cited as the top opera of 2010 by The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Time Out New York. Giants Are Small collaborated with the Philharmonic again on the 2011 production of Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, which was called “Best Classical Event of the Year” by New York Magazine. Both received superlative reviews and are consistently cited as benchmarks of contemporary opera production in New York. A Dancer’s Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky, based on two works by Stravinsky, The Fairy’s Kiss and Petrushka, marks the third installment in a trilogy collaboration with Alan Gilbert and the Orchestra. The Giants Are Small production of Petrushka that is incorporated in this most recent collaboration was originally developed with the University of Maryland in 2008. The creative partnership of Doug Fitch and Edouard Getaz began with Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat, with the New York Philharmonic, in 2005, and was the first (more)

A Dancer’s Dream Screening / 4 production in which their idea of “live filmmaking” was brought to a wide audience.

Giants Are Small is currently developing Peter + Wolf in Hollywood — an immersive event incorporating theater, music, on-stage filmmaking, and puppetry — based on the great Prokofiev classic. Additional projects in development include theatrical amalgams of media, technology, music, and visual art. Follow Giants Are Small on Facebook: Facebook.com/giantsaresmall.

About SpectiCast SpectiCast is the fastest growing all-digital distribution company in the world, distributing film, cultural arts events, and alternative-content programs to both theatrical and non-theatrical venues around the globe. SpectiCast markets and distributes the finest 2D and 3D programs using the industry’s most advanced technologies for some of the world’s most prestigious cultural arts organizations including Opéra de Paris, Salzburg Festival, Paris Opéra Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre, the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and others. SpectiCast’s fast- growing slate of alternative content and “event cinema” includes classic and contemporary music events from best-selling artists including Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pat Metheny, André Rieu, and Jimi Hendrix, as well as world-class theater events like Great Expectations from London’s Vaudeville Theatre, Stephen Sondheim’s Company, and Phantom of the Opera from The Royal Albert Hall. SpectiCast also distributes some of the best specialty film programs including The Women’s Edge Film Series, the Laugh Out Loud Film Festival, and other similar programs. SpectiCast distributes hundreds of programs to more than 1,400 theaters in 24 countries on six continents. SpectiCast is a privately owned and operated firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For more information visit SpectiCast.com.

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Credit Suisse is the Global Sponsor of the New York Philharmonic.

* * * Filming and Digital Media Distribution of this project is made possible by the generosity of The Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation and The Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser Recording Fund.

* * * These concerts are sponsored by Yoko Nagae Ceschina. Generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation, Donna and Marvin Schwartz, the Mary and James G. Wallach Family Foundation, and an anonymous donor.

* * * Classical 109.5 WQXR is the Radio Home of the New York Philharmonic.

* * * Programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. (more)

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A DANCER’S DREAM: TWO WORKS BY STRAVINSKY

Avery Fisher Hall

Alan Gilbert, conductor/Magician Doug Fitch, director/designer Karole Armitage, choreographer Edouard Getaz, producer/video director

A Production Created by Giants Are Small

Clifton Taylor, lighting designer† Irina Kruzhilina, costume designer* Matt Acheson, master puppeteer* Margie Durand, make-up artist* Kirk Cambridge-Delpeche, make-up artist*

Featuring Sara Mearns, principal dancer*

Amar Ramasar, principal dancer/puppeteer* Abbey Roesner, dancer/assistant choreographer* William da Silva, puppeteer and circus performer* Vincent McCloskey, performer/puppeteer* Monica Lerch, atmospherist* Giacomo Belletti, steadicam operator*† Matt Manning, tripod camera*† With appearances on pre-recorded video by: Eric Owens (The Moor) (Petrushka)

STRAVINSKY The Fairy’s Kiss (complete) DUREY Neige, for piano four hands (excerpt) Eric Huebner, piano Steve Beck, piano STRAVINSKY Petrushka

* denotes New York Philharmonic debut † for live production only # # #

More information about the performance is available at nyphil.org/dream. More information about the theatrical screening is available at dreamonscreen.com.

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