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New Dance With an International Flair The four choreographers hard at work in neighboring third-floor studios
this fall were creating dances marked by approaches as different as
their backgrounds. Representing four countries, they brought a
particularly international flavor to New Dances: Edition 2010, an annual
program in which a choreographer works with an entire Dance Division
class. Preparations for the culminating performances, which take place
from December 15 to 19, jump-start the academic year and give the entire
dance student body important exposure to up-to-the-minute, tailor-made
choreography. More...Focusing on Half a Century of Polish Music Every year in late January, Juilliard’s Focus! festival highlights an
aspect of recent music; this year the spotlight is on Poland after World
War II. “Polish Modern,” from January 22 to 28, will comprise six
concerts of chamber orchestra, chamber music, and solo music from dozens
of composers, and a concluding orchestral concert devoted to works by
Witold Lutoslawski (pictured). More...Managing the Madness in Mamelles Bohemian Paris in the waning years of World War I: Swarms of
artists and other locals scouring the cafes and nightclubs for nocturnal
thrills, always teetering between poverty and pleasure. This was the
setting for the premiere, in June 1917, of Guillaume Apollinaire’s
surrealist drama Les mamelles de Tirésias. In December, Juilliard Opera will present Poulenc’s operatic adaptation of Apollinaire’s play. More...Conductor Xian Zhang Hits Her Stride Since her prior appearances with the Juilliard Orchestra—including the April 30 premiere of Augusta Reade Thomas’s Jubilee and
on its 2008 tour of China—Chinese-American conductor Xian Zhang has had
many reasons for celebration. In addition to making her debuts at La
Fenice and the Royal Concertgebouw, she has become music director of the
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, making history as the
first woman to lead an Italian orchestra. This December, she eagerly
marks her return to Juilliard with a program that runs the gamut of
German repertoire More...Drama Captures Chekhov’s World of Dreams in The Seagull An amusing and stirring meditation on art and love—and the means by which success is measured in both—Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, directed by Richard Feldman (pictured), is an apt undertaking for Juilliard’s fourth-year actors as they face
their futures as professional performing artists. More... |
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