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A LEGENDARY MASTERPIECE OF MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE

Choreography by Lucinda Childs - Music by Philip Glass - Film by Sol LeWitt A thrilling combination of dance, film, and music by three artistic pioneers.

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We are thrilled to share The Arts Center’s fourth season with you. A rich schedule of theater, dance, music, family shows, film, spoken word, and Off The Stage events fills our calendar. We invite you to come watch, experience new works, and take part in workshops and conversations.

The Arts Center strives to fostercreativity in the UAE by bringingdiverse people together throughshared artistic experiences to createa deeper sense of community andpersonal connection. Whether a celebratory concert or a groundbreaking theater piece, a kinetic dance performance or a heart-tugging film, performances and events create shared memories for the people of the UAE. They open dialogue and showcase some of the best the world has to offer.

Over our first three seasons, The Arts Center has welcomed more than 55,000 attendees to over 250 shows and 500 Off The Stage outreach events. Every day, we are inspired by the warm reception you give our artists, by your willingness to come with open minds and open hearts to explore the unfamiliar, and by your enthusiastic engagement in important conversations surrounding the work on our stages.

With over 80 performances and 160 Off The Stage events, our 2018-19 lineup is inspired by the themes of Connection,

Community, and Excellence. Cultures, genres, and styles meet and cross-fertilize in a schedule spotlighting exceptional artists at the top of their fields. Through its electric programming and inventive opportunities for collaboration, The Arts Center creates platforms to cultivate emerging artistic voices. Our multifaceted relationship with the local and global arts communities speaks to the role of NYU Abu Dhabi as a place that supports and develops innovative work by artists from the UAE and around the world.

In addition to the public performances and workshops, visiting artists also become deeply embedded in the University’s academic mission, with artists visiting numerous classes across campus, and artist developmental residencies serving as platforms of specially created classes. Consistent with NYUAD’s interdisciplinary approach, we believe that the arts are for everyone, and that they create new ways of seeing and understanding the world and our common humanity. The best way for us to understand the impact of our work is by hearing directly from you. Thanks for sharing your feedback via email, social media (we’re on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram), and in the lobby before and after shows. Above all, the arts spark conversation, and we love hearing what you have to say. Please stay in touch. Thank you for your ongoing support, we look forward to continuing this journey with you.

Bill Bragin Executive Artistic Director

Welcome Home. Your home for performances, talks, and workshops where the finest artists of our time share their creativity with you.

موسمSEASON

WELCOME

SEP 5&6

GATZ - ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE

SEP 21,22&24

JINN

OCT 10&11

TANGLE – POLYGLOT THEATRE

NOV 8-17

HEKAYAH | THE STORY

DEC 5

DANCE - LUCINDA CHILDS DANCE COMPANY

OCT 19

CHAÂBI FLAMENCO - JUAN CARMONA AND PTIT MOH

LOVE AND REVENGE / A TRIBE CALLED RED

SEP 12&13

NOV 28

JUDO + BALANCE & IMBALANCE - BEREISHIT DANCE COMPANY

WATER IN THE DESERT: A ZAYED LEGACY

OCT 25&26

FALL CREATIVE RESIDENCY - AFRA ATIQ

REMOTE ABU DHABIRIMINI PROTOKOLL

NOV 9,16,23,30 DEC 7,14,21 JAN 11,18,25

LUCINDA CHILDS DANCE COMPANY

Choreography by Lucinda Childs

presents

Film bySol LeWitt

Lighting by Beverly Emmons

Produced ByPomegranate Arts

Lucinda Childs Dance Company: Robert Mark Burke, Katie Dorn, Kyle Gerry, Sarah Hillmon, Anne Lewis, Vincent McCloskey, Sharon Milanese, Matt Pardo, Lonnie Poupard, Jr., Caitlin Scranton, Shakirah Stewart

Music byPhilip Glass

Original Costume Design byA. Christina Giannini

PHOTOGRAPHY © SALLY COHN

The reconstruction of DANCE was commissioned by the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, with additional support from The Yard, a colony for performing artists on Martha’s Vineyard.

The program is comprised of three dances; each is approximately 20 minutes in length, performed together without an intermission.

PERFORMERS (in order of appearance)*

Dance I & III

Dance II

DANCERS IN FILM (in order of appearance)*

DANCE by Lucinda Childs was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts’ American Masterpieces: Dance initiative, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts.

DANCE (1979)

Robert Mark Burke, Katie Dorn, Kyle Gerry, Sarah Hillmon, Anne Lewis, Vincent McCloskey, Sharon Milanese, Matt Pardo, Lonnie Poupard, Jr., Shakirah Stewart

Megan Walker Susan Osberg Judy Padow Cynthia HedstromLucinda Childs

PRODUCTION:

Original Lighting DesignOriginal Costume DesignLCDC Rehearsal DirectorProduction Manager/ Lighting DirectorCompany Manager

Ande PeckErin MatthiessenGraham ConleyDaniel McCusker

Caitlin Scranton

Recorded music for Dance I and Dance III performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble.

(*Casting is subject to change nightly)

Recorded music for Dance II performed by Philip Glass and Michael Riesman.

Beverly EmmonsA. Christina GianniniSharon MilaneseTricia ToliverRachel Katwan

Everyone is welcome to join us Off The Stage for workshops, masterclasses, and discussion panels. All visiting artists spend time in residency at NYUAD beyond their performances. Off The Stage connects you with the visiting artists through the sharing of creative insights, international experience, hands-on knowledge, and professional skills.

Dance Workshop with Lucinda Childs Dance Company

Artist Talk with Lucinda Childs & NYUAD Art Gallery Director Maya Allison

Post Show Q & A with Lucinda Childs moderated by Linsey Bostwick, NYUAD Arts Center Senior Producer

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SEP 5after the performance

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You watch the dancers’ subtle changes in accent amid unflagging speed, how they stream across the stage with a thrilling constancy... and you think, yes, this is the essence of dance.

THE WASHINGTON POST

Lucinda Childs began her career at the Judson Dance Theater In New York in 1963. Since forming her dance company ten years later, she has created over fifty works, both solo and ensemble. In 1976, she was featured in the landmark avant-garde opera Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, for which she won an Obie Award. She subsequently appeared in a number of Wilson’s productions, including I Was Sitting on My Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating, Quartett, by Heiner Muller, Wilson and Glass’s opera White Raven, Wilson’s video project Video 50, and Maladie de la Mort by Marguerite Duras (opposite Michel Piccoli). Most recently, she appeared in Wilson’s production of Arvo Part’s Adam’s Passion and also recorded spoken text and collaborated on the choreography for Letter to a Man, which was based on Nijinsky’s diaries and performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov. In 1979 Childs choreographed one of her most enduring works, Dance, with music by Philip Glass and film décor by Sol LeWitt, which continues to tour internationally and has been added to the repertory of the Lyon Opera Ballet, for which she has choreographed Beethoven’s Grande Fugue. In 2015 she revived Available Light, created in 1983 with music by John Adams and a split-level set by Frank Gehry. It was presented at the Festival d’Automne in Paris and the Manchester International Festival. In 2016, in an exhibit titled “Nothing Personal,” her choreographic scores were shown at the Thaddeus Ropac Gallery in collaboration with the Centre Nationale de la Danse, to which she has donated her archive.

Since 1981 Childs has choreographed over thirty works for major ballet companies, including the Paris Opera Ballet and Les Ballet de Monte Carlo. She has also directed and choreographed a number of contemporary and eighteenth-century operas, including Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice for the Los Angeles Opera, Mozart’s Zaide for La Monnaie in Brussels, Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol and Oedipe, Vivaldi’s Farnace, Handel’s Alessandro, and John Adams’s Dr. Atomic for the Opera du Rhin. Her production of Jean Baptiste Lully’s Atys premiered at Oper Kiel in 2014 and her production of Jean-Marie Leclaire’s Scylla and Glaucus premiered there in 2017. Childs is the recipient of numerous awards. She holds the rank of Commandeur in France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2017 she received the Golden Lion award from the Venice Biennale and the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival award for lifetime achievement. In 2018, she was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, NY.

LUCINDA CHILDS

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Philip Glass is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, Glass spent two years of intensive study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and, while there, earned money by transcribing Ravi Shankar’s Indian music into Western notation. By 1974, Glass had a number of innovative projects creating a large collection of new music for The Philip Glass Ensemble and for the Mabou Mines Theater Company. This period culminated in Music in Twelve Parts and the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, for which he collaborated with Robert Wilson. Since Einstein, Glass has expanded his repertoire to include music for opera, dance, theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra and film. His scores have received Academy Award nominations (Kundun, The Hours, Notes on a Scandal) and a Golden Globe (The Truman Show). In the past few years several new works were unveiled including an opera on the death of Walt Disney, The Perfect American (co-commissioned by Teatro Real, Madrid and the English National Opera), a new touring production of Einstein, the publication of Glass’s memoir, Words Without Music, by Liveright Books, and the premiere of the revised version of Glass’ opera Appomattox, in collaboration with librettist Christopher Hampton, at the Washington National Opera in November 2015.

Glass celebrated his 80th birthday on January 31, 2017 with the world premiere of Symphony No. 11 at Carnegie Hall. His 80th birthday season featured curated programming around the globe, including the U.S. premieres of operas The Trial and The Perfect American, and world premieres of several new works, including Piano Concerto No. 3, String Quartet No. 8, and his first Piano Quintet.

Other recent accolades include the U.S. National Medal of the Arts, presented to Glass by President Barack Obama in 2015. In 2016 Glass was named the eleventh recipient of the Glenn Gould Prize, a lifetime achievement award given to prominent musicians. He was also honored to hold Carnegie Hall’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair throughout the 2017-2018 season.

On January 10th, 2019, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will present the world premiere of Glass’ Symphony No. 12, based on David Bowie’s album Lodger and a completion of three symphonies based on Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy. Glass continues to perform solo piano evenings, chamber music evenings with world-renowned musicians, and regularly appears with the Philip Glass Ensemble.

PHILIP GLASS

Sol Lewitt was born in 1928. LeWitt was one of the first artists to formally define conceptual art as a phenomenon. He is best known for his deceptively simple geometric structures and architecturally scaled wall drawings, but his oeuvre also includes sculptures, photographs, prints, and films. LeWitt reduced art to a few basic shapes - spheres, triangles, quadrilaterals - colors, and types of lines, and organized these elements into guidelines. Much of his production for his drawings was in the form of a set of ideas or instructions that he gave to teams of assistants to carry out. His method permitted other people to participate in the creative process. During his lifetime, LeWitt was the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world.

Beverly Emmons’s lighting credits include Annie Get Your Gun, Jekyll & Hyde, The Heiress, Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, The Elephant Man, and Amadeus, for which she won a Tony Award. Her Off-Broadway work includes The Vagina Monologues and several works by Joseph Chaiken. She has also designed productions at the Kennedy Center, the Guthrie, Arena Stage, and the Children’s Theatre of Minneapolis. For Robert Wilson, she has lit eight productions, including Einstein on the Beach. Along with her work with Lucinda Childs, she has designed lighting for choreographers Alvin Ailey, Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, and Martha Graham. Her honors include seven Tony nominations, the 1976 Lumen award, 1984 and 1986 Bessies, a 1980 Obie for Distinguished Lighting, and several Maharam/American Theater Wing Design Awards.

SOL LEWITT

BEVERLY EMMONS

A. Christina Giannini’s Dance credits include costumes for Alvin Ailey Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre, American Repertory Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Lucinda Childs Dance Company, and Pennsylvania Ballet Company, among others. International audiences have seen her work performed by the Ballet du Nord (France), Ballet of Flanders (Belgium), Royal Danish Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Teatro Colón Ballet Company (Argentina), and Ballet Terese Carrena and Ballet National de Caracas (both in Venezuela). She has also designed costumes for on and Off-Broadway theater and opera companies as well as New York Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage Company, Roundabout Theater, and Portland Stage.

A. CHRISTINA GIANNINI

Katie Dorn is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she earned a high school diploma and B.F.A. in Contemporary Dance. She completed her M.F.A. from the Hollins University/American Dance Festival M.F.A. program. In 2006 she received the Martha Hill Young Professional Award as an outstanding young performer. Since moving to NYC Katie has worked with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Gus Solomons Jr., Carlos Soto, and with Robert Wilson and Philip Glass on the revival of the opera, “Einstein on the Beach”. She performed James Lee Byars’s “The Mile Long Paper Walk”- a solo that was re staged by Lucinda Childs for the Marron Atrium at the MoMA in NYC in August 2014. Katie has been dancing for Lucinda Childs since 2009 and has set Ms. Childs work on students at the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Barnard College, and on the Lyon Opera Ballet. She is the producer and host of the podcast Dance Journal NYC.

KATIE DORN

Robert Mark Burke finds himself a New York-based dance artist. Performing both nationally and internationally, Robert is a company member of Lucinda Childs Dance Company, 10 Hairy Legs, and Megan Williams Dance Projects. He also performs regularly with Meagan Woods and Company, has worked with Bryn Cohn and Artists and has apprenticed with Doug Elkins. Burke has been a guest artist at Rutgers University and Rider University. He has been a guest lecturer at Montclair State University and has been commissioned to create work for high schools throughout the tri-state area. Burke has shown his work throughout the United States including the wild project, Dixon Place, Paramount Theater (Boston), Hofstra University, Rutgers University, Rider University, Dance New Amsterdam, Jersey City Theater Center and New Jersey Performing Arts Center. He has received numerous awards, including the 2015 Dance on the Lawn Emerging Choreographer Grant under the direction of Charmaine Warren, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center Jersey (New) Moves Fellowship in both 2015 and 2017, The 2016 CoLab Arts Space Grant, and The 2017 Eryc Taylor Emerging Choreography Grant. He is a graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

ROBERT MARK BURKE

Kyle Gerry is a native of Eugene, Oregon. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University, with a degree in Political Science and Economics. He continued to study dance at the Merce Cunningham studio, where he has performed many of Cunningham’s dances, first as a guest with the Repertory Understudy Group and then through the Trust’s Fellowship Program. He has danced with Jessica Gaynor Dance, Rosario, and Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theater, and performed most recently in projects by Vanessa Walters, Christopher Williams, and his longtime teacher, June Finch. He also was featured in the Perm Opera Ballet’s Indian Queen, directed by Peter Sellars, and the National Opera of Bordeaux’s Dardanus, directed by Michel Fau. He joined the Lucinda Childs Dance Company last year.

Sarah Hillmon is a native of Rochester, NY. There, she trained with Garth Fagan, Timothy M. Draper and was a member of the Rochester City Ballet. She graduated with a BFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she had the privilege of performing works by talented artists including Sidra Bell, Lucinda Childs, Gus Solomons Jr, and Charles Weidman. While in New York City, Sarah has danced for Lucinda Childs Dance Company, Suzanne Beahrs Dance, BodyStories, AMS Project, and MATYCHAK. She is a founding member of RedCurrant Collective.

Anne Lewis was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she earned a B.A. in Critical Social Thought and Dance. Prior to attending Mount Holyoke, she trained at the Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida, on a full tuition scholarship. Anne has been with the company since 2009.

Vincent McCloskey received his earliest dance training at the Washington School of Ballet, and continued his studies at the Chicago Academy of the Arts, Alvin Ailey, and the Joffrey Ballet School. He has worked with many choreographers, including Dusan Tynek, Mark Morris, Laura Scozzi, Pam Tanowitz, Helen Pickett, Karole Armitage, Rebecca Lazier, and Vanessa Walters. As a teacher, he has appeared as an adjunct professor at Barnard, taught at Gibney Dance Center, ADF, and served as rehearsal director for Patricia Hoffbauer. He began working with Lucinda Childs in 2009.

KYLE GERRY

SARAH HILLMON

ANNE LEWIS

VINCENT McCLOSKEY

Sharon Milanese is a teaching and performing artist based in New York City. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance from Southern Methodist University, is a certified Pilates instructor, and teaches professional ballet classes worldwide. Sharon has performed with New York Theatre Ballet, Cortez and Company Contemporary/Ballet, Verb Ballets, Ramon Oller and the Peridance Ensemble, Corbindances, Liz Gerring Dance Company, Heidi Latsky Dance, Motley Dance, Patricia Hoffbauer, Dusan Tynek Dance Theater, and Robert Wilson & Philip Glass in the opera, “Einstein on the Beach”. Sharon is a dancer and the rehearsal director for the Lucinda Childs Dance Company.

Lonnie Poupard, Jr. grew up in Monroe, MI and attended Western Michigan University where he was honored as the Presidential Scholar in the Dept of Dance. Since moving to New York, Lonnie has worked with many artists including Mark Morris, Jody Oberfelder, Gabrielle Lansner & Co., Mark Dendy, Catherine Miller, Neta Pulvemacher, and has been a member of the Lucinda Childs Dance Company since 2011. He was distinguished in New Yorker magazine as one of the “Ten Best Dance Performances of 2009” for his duet performance at City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, and has been a featured dancer for both film & television including Law & Order: SVU. Lonnie also majored in Aviation Flight Science and holds a private pilot’s license.

Matt Pardo has danced with Eisenhower Dance Ensemble, River North Chicago Dance Company (apprentice), Pittsburgh Opera, Groundworks Dance Theatre, “Einstein on the Beach” (Olivier Award – Best Opera), Lucinda Childs Dance Company (company member/company class instructor), among others. Dance Europe magazine selected him as a “Top 100 dancer in the world” for 2010/2011 and called him “an artist to watch”. Pardo is a co-founder of the Pittsburgh-based organization, The Blanket (theblanket.org), which has been featured in Dance magazine-online, Departures Magazine (American Express), and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Recent choreographic and teaching credits include the American Dance Festival, Point Park University, Elon University, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, Broadway Dance Center, and Slippery Rock University. Upcoming writing includes an article in the Journal of Dance Education discussing the use of experiential observation in developing a practice of performance. Pardo is an assistant professor at Shenandoah University. (matt-pardo.com)

SHARON MILANESE

LONNIE POUPARD, JR.

MATT PARDO

Caitlin Scranton grew up in Iowa and lives in New York City. She studied dance at Dance Theater of Iowa, Idyllwild Arts Academy and the Ailey School, and also holds a BA in History from Smith College. In New York she has worked with Cornfield Dance, Mark Dendy, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Paul Singh, Ramon Oller and the Peridance Ensemble, and currently dances for Christopher Williams. Caitlin is a freelance teacher, most recently spending a year as a Visiting Artist at Point Park University in Pittsburgh. In 2015 she co-founded The Blanket, a Pittsburgh-based organization that seeks to promote and expand modern dance in Pittsburgh. Caitlin joined the Lucinda Childs Dance Company in 2009.

Shakirah Stewart began her professional training at LaGuardia High School of Music & Performing Arts. While there, she worked with Troy Powell, Jamel Gaines, Penny Frank, and Elisa King. She earned a BFA in dance from Purchase College, where she performed works by Lauri Stallings, Paul Taylor, Ori Flomin, Megan Williams, and Kevin Wynn. While at Purchase, she also worked with Mark Morris, performing his Gloria there, as well as at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. After graduating, Stewart went on to dance at the New Dance Group, Forces of Nature, and with Amanda Selwyn, at Notes in Motion. She has also performed works by Sidra Bell at Purchase College, Jacob’s Pillow, and the Modern Dance Festival at Alvin Ailey.

CAITLIN SCRANTON

SHAKIRAH STEWART

Trisha Toliver is a technical artist who uses all the tools of our time to support the emotional expression of theatre artists. In his time, Josh has engineered performances in airplane hangars and train stations, toured with shows to 35 countries, and worked with such notables as Robert Wilson, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Robert Rauschenberg, and the Flying Karamazov Brothers. A highlight of his career was the years spent as resident lighting designer for Merce Cunningham, who taught him how to see again. Josh loves being the bridge between concept and reality, empowering artists to realize their visions through whatever means necessary. Josh’s latest big adventure was traveling overland from Guatemala to Argentina over the span of two years.

TRISHA TOLIVER

For the past twenty years, Pomegranate Arts has worked in close collaboration with a small group of contemporary artists and arts institutions to bring bold and ambitious artistic ideas to fruition. Founder and Director Linda Brumbach, along with managing director Alisa E. Regas produced the Olivier Award-winning revival of Einstein on the Beach, the multi-award winning production of Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music and the Drama Desk Award winning production of Charlie Victor Romeo. Since it’s inception, Pomegranate Arts has produced over 30 major new performing arts productions and tours for Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Childs, Dan Zanes, London’s Improbable, Sankai Juku, Batsheva, and Bassem Youssef and collaborated on new productions with the Kronos Quartet, Leonard Cohen, Robert Wilson, and Frank Gehry. Pomegranate Arts hope to continue to build a community of institutions and individuals that are inspired by artists that help bring beauty and truth into the world, ask important questions, and take bold risks.

POMEGRANATE ARTS

WORLDWIDE TOUR REPRESENTATION FOR LUCINDA CHILDS DANCE COMPANY:

Pomegranate Artswww.pomegranatearts.cominfo@pomarts.com

Founder and DirectorManaging Director, CreativeBusiness Manager Associate General ManagerProduction Manager Office ManagerProduction Assistant

Linda BrumbachAlisa E. RegasAdam ThorburnRachel KatwanJeremy LydicBrit KatkeWilla Folmar

THE ARTS CENTER TEAMBill Bragin Executive Artistic Director

Chris PyeDirector of Production

Mohannad Al BakriDirector of External Relations

Alana BarrajSenior Producer

Linsey Bostwick Senior Producer

Claire Carroll Video Supervisor

Leila DebbaziManager of Administration

Tiece EdwardsFront of House and Box Office Manager

Simon Fraulo Lighting Supervisor

Estelle GallowayAssistant Audio Supervisor

InternsJude Al Qubaisi, Sarah Booth, Eunsu Choi, Nabiha Nahyan Helal, Sakurako Naka, Daniel H Rey Rosas, Dina Saleh, Yagmur Unal, Anastasiia Zubareva.

Jennifer HindTechnical Staff

Nico Jahns Technical Stage Manager

Christian Lear Director of Business Operations

Adam MillsAssistant Lighting Manager

Jonathan PettigrewTechnical Staff

Clive PrimroseDirector of Marketing

Gareth RobertsAssistant Rigging Manager

Roger ScheepersAudio Supervisor

Josie Simm Technical Staff

Subin Thompson Technical Staff

THANKSAl Bloom, Fabio Piano, Mona Louca, Nada Messaikeh, Lily Burns-Hernandez, Maya Allison, Linda Brumbach, Sandra Peters, Alisa Regas, Gregor Stemmrich, The NYUAD Art Gallery, Attitude Dance Society and The Factory

We are thrilled to share The Arts Center’s fourth season with you. A rich schedule of theater, dance, music, family shows, film, spoken word, and Off The Stage events fills our calendar. We invite you to come watch, experience new works, and take part in workshops and conversations.

The Arts Center strives to fostercreativity in the UAE by bringingdiverse people together throughshared artistic experiences to createa deeper sense of community andpersonal connection. Whether a celebratory concert or a groundbreaking theater piece, a kinetic dance performance or a heart-tugging film, performances and events create shared memories for the people of the UAE. They open dialogue and showcase some of the best the world has to offer.

Over our first three seasons, The Arts Center has welcomed more than 55,000 attendees to over 250 shows and 500 Off The Stage outreach events. Every day, we are inspired by the warm reception you give our artists, by your willingness to come with open minds and open hearts to explore the unfamiliar, and by your enthusiastic engagement in important conversations surrounding the work on our stages.

With over 80 performances and 160 Off The Stage events, our 2018-19 lineup is inspired by the themes of Connection,

Community, and Excellence. Cultures, genres, and styles meet and cross-fertilize in a schedule spotlighting exceptional artists at the top of their fields. Through its electric programming and inventive opportunities for collaboration, The Arts Center creates platforms to cultivate emerging artistic voices. Our multifaceted relationship with the local and global arts communities speaks to the role of NYU Abu Dhabi as a place that supports and develops innovative work by artists from the UAE and around the world.

In addition to the public performances and workshops, visiting artists also become deeply embedded in the University’s academic mission, with artists visiting numerous classes across campus, and artist developmental residencies serving as platforms of specially created classes. Consistent with NYUAD’s interdisciplinary approach, we believe that the arts are for everyone, and that they create new ways of seeing and understanding the world and our common humanity. The best way for us to understand the impact of our work is by hearing directly from you. Thanks for sharing your feedback via email, social media (we’re on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram), and in the lobby before and after shows. Above all, the arts spark conversation, and we love hearing what you have to say. Please stay in touch. Thank you for your ongoing support, we look forward to continuing this journey with you.

Bill Bragin Executive Artistic Director

Welcome Home. Your home for performances, talks, and workshops where the finest artists of our time share their creativity with you.

موسمSEASON

WELCOME

SEP 5&6

GATZ - ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE

SEP 21,22&24

JINN

OCT 10&11

TANGLE – POLYGLOT THEATRE

NOV 8-17

HEKAYAH | THE STORY

DEC 5

DANCE - LUCINDA CHILDS DANCE COMPANY

OCT 19

CHAÂBI FLAMENCO - JUAN CARMONA AND PTIT MOH

LOVE AND REVENGE / A TRIBE CALLED RED

SEP 12&13

NOV 28

JUDO + BALANCE & IMBALANCE - BEREISHIT DANCE COMPANY

WATER IN THE DESERT: A ZAYED LEGACY

OCT 25&26

FALL CREATIVE RESIDENCY - AFRA ATIQ

REMOTE ABU DHABIRIMINI PROTOKOLL

NOV 9,16,23,30 DEC 7,14,21 JAN 11,18,25

DANCELUCINDA CHILDS DANCE COMPANY

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A LEGENDARY MASTERPIECE OF MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE

Choreography by Lucinda Childs - Music by Philip Glass - Film by Sol LeWitt A thrilling combination of dance, film, and music by three artistic pioneers.

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#NYUADArtsCenter NYUADArtsCenter

www.nyuad-artscenter.org

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