On March 20, the first day of spring, Works & Process will usher in the return of live performances in the voluminous Guggenheim rotunda, which has been open to museumgoers since fall 2020. The first of their kind since the start of the pandemic, twelve new commissions developed in the safety of Works & Process quarantined bubble residencies in the Hudson Valley will sequence directly into one-night-only performances.
Under the guidance of the New York State Department of Health, to a masked audience initially limited to fifty, the series premieres with one of the most iconic musical portraits of New York City, composer George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Choreographer Caleb Teicher and pianist and composer Conrad Tao, with dancers LaTasha Barnes, Nathan Bugh, Gaby Cook, Abdiel Jacobsen, Jennifer Jones, and Macy Sullivan, are creating a new work that celebrates and captures New York City in all its beauty and peril.
