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opera and theater

IMPERMANENCE
6 Performers, 2 Musicians
 
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COMMISSIONED BY: The New York State Music Fund, a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project, a program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn Academy of Music; American Music Center’s Live Music for Dance Program; and Arts International’s Artist Exploration Fund. Last Song was commissioned by Meet The Composer Commissioning Music/USA.
 
     

THE IMPERMANENCE PROJECT
6 Performers, 2 Musicians;
Performances: Riverside Studios, London, England

MERCY
in collaboration with Ann Hamilton
6 Performers, 2 Musicians
 
 

COMMISSIONED BY: The House Foundation for the Arts, NYC; American Dance Festival through the Doris Duke Awards for New Work; and the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State Univesity
PERFORMANCES: The American Dance Festival, Durham, NC; The Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut; Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, California; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Miami Light Project, Miami, Florida; Performing Arts Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, New York; Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana-Champaign, IL

 
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MAGIC FREQUENCIES
6 Performers, 2 Musicians
 
  COMMISSIONED BY: The House Foundation for the Arts, NYC; DANCE 98/City of Munich, Cultural Department and Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel/Marstall
PERFORMANCES: Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Beckett, MA; Dance 98, Muffathalle, Munich, Germany, The Joyce Theater, New York, NY; Lafayette College, Easton, PA; Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA; Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Krannert Center, Urbana, IL; Wisconsin Union Theater, Madison, WI; Power Center, Ann Arbor, MI; Agnes Scott Theater, Decatur, GA; Carver Cultural Center, San Antonio, TX; Chamizal Theater, El Paso, TX; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ; University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Alex Theater, Glendale, CA; Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Trafo, Budapest, Hungary; The Archa Theater, Prague, Czech Republic
 
A CELEBRATION SERVICE
13 Performers
 
  PERFORMANCES: American Guild of Organists/Union Theological Seminary/James Memorial Chapel, NYC; Spoleto Festival; Charleston, SC; Walker Art Center/First Unitarian Society, Minneapolis, MN  
  THE POLITICS OF QUIET
12 Performers
 
  COMMISSIONED BY: The House Foundation for the Arts, NYC; Lied Center for the Performing Arts. Lincoln, NE; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Pittsburgh Dance Council and Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
PERFORMANCES: PS122, NYC; Byham Theater, Pittsburgh, PA; Musikteatret Albertslund, Copenhagen, Denmark; Festival D'Avignon, Avignon, France; Lied Center for Performing Arts, Lincoln, NE; The Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY; Encontros Acarte Festival, Lisbon, Portugal; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
 
AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY #1
70 Performers
 
  COMMISSIONED BY: The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The House Foundation for the Arts, NYC; Dancing in the Streets, NYC; PS122, NYC; Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA
PERFORMANCES: Roosevelt Island, NY, Lighthouse Park and Renwick Ruin
 
  VOLCANO SONGS
1 Performer
 
  COMMISSIONED BY: The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The House Foundation for the Arts, NYC; PS 122, NYC; Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA
PERFORMANCES: The Walker Art Center; PS122; Hancher Auditorium; Portland Art Museum; Portland, OR; Theater Bernardines, Marseille, France; International Summer Theater Festival, Hamburg, Germany; Columbia College, Chicago, IL; Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China; Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA; Festival d'automne, Paris, France; Saitama Arts Center, Tokyo, Japan
 
ATLAS: AN OPERA IN THREE PARTS
29 Performers
 
  COMMISSIONED BY: The Houston Grand Opera, Houston, TX; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Wexner Center for the Performing Arts, Columbus, OH; The American Music Theater Festival, Philadelphia, PA; Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City
PERFORMANCES: The Wexner Center for the Performing Arts; American Music Theater Festival, Hebbel Theater, Berlin, Germany; Odeon Theater, Paris, France; Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
 
FACING NORTH
2 Performers
 
  PERFORMANCES: The House Loft, NYC; West Kortright Centre, East Meredith, New York; The Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, NYC; UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; Laforet Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan; Black Box Theater, Oslo, Norway; Mythos Festival, Philadelphia, PA; Trinity College, Hartford, CT; Festival d'Automne, Paris, France; District Curators, Washington, DC; Carl Orff Saal, Munich, Germany; Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany; Kurhaus, Hall in Tirol, Austria; Wisconsin Union Theater, Madison, WI; Kaufman Auditorium, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI; The Clark Theater at Lincoln Center, NYC; Théâtre de Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland  
THE RINGING PLACE
12 Performers
 
  PERFORMANCES: Work-In-Progress presented at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn, NY  
THE GAMES
In collaboration with Ping Chong
16 Performers
 
 
COMMISSIONED BY: The Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, West Berlin, Germany
PERFORMANCES: The Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; University of California, Berkeley, CA; Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
 
  TURTLE DREAMS
7 Performers
 
  Villager Award for Outstanding Composition 1983
PERFORMANCES: Plexus, NYC; Dance Umbrella, London, England; Theater Festival of the Americas, Montreal, Canada; La Mama Annex, NYC
 
SPECIMEN DAYS: A CIVIL WAR OPERA
15 Performers
 
  PERFORMANCES: The Public Theater, NYC; Festival d'Automne, Paris, France; Theatre National, Strasbourg, France; Teatro Due, Parma, Italy  
  MUSIC CONCERT WITH FILM
8 Performers
 
  PERFORMANCES: The Space at City Center, NYC; Washington Hall Performance Gallery, Seattle, Washington; Western Washington University, Washington; Portland Center of the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon; San Francisco Symphony at the Galleria, San Francisco, CA; University of California, San Diego, CA; Musikhochschule, Cologne, Germany; Almeida Festival, Jerusalem, Israel; Duke University, Durham, NC; Northeastern University, Boston  
RECENT RUINS
14 Performers
 
  Villager Award for Outstanding Production of the Year 1979
PERFORMANCES: La Mama Annex, NYC; La Maison de la Culture de Nanterre, France; Center of Theater Research, Milan, Italy
 
THE PLATEAU SERIES
8 Performers
 
  PERFORMANCES: St. Mark's Church, NYC; Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado; Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Mills College, Oakland, California; University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Cafe Voltaire, Toronto, Canada; Israel Festival, Jerusalem  
THE TRAVELOGUE SERIES: PARIS/VENICE-MILAN/CHACON
In collaboration with Ping Chong
30 Performers
 
  PERFORMANCES: The Roundabout Theater, NYC; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC; The Sigma Festival, Bordeaux, France; Oberlin College, Ohio; Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; St. Peter's Church, NYC; Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.; Joyce Theater, NYC  
QUARRY
40 Performers
 
  OBIE Award for Outstanding Achievement 1976
PERFORMANCES: La Mama Annex, NYC; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; International Music Theater Festival, Florence, Italy; The Venice Biennale, Italy; The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
 
ANTHOLOGY AND SMALL SCROLL
9 Performers
 
  PERFORMANCES: The Mickery Theater, Amsterdam; Goddard College, Vermont; Center of Theater Research, Milan, Italy; Teatro Rondo di Bacco, Florence, Italy  
EDUCATION OF THE GIRLCHILD: AN OPERA
13 Performers
 
  First Prize in Musical Theater, The Venice Biennale 1975
PERFORMANCES: Common Ground Theater, NYC; Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, NYC; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; Festival d'Automne, Paris, France; Teatro Stabile, Torino, Italy; International Theater Festival, Japan; The Joyce Theater, New York
 
VESSEL: AN OPERA EPIC
75 Performers
 
  OBIE Award for Outstanding Production, 1972
PERFORMANCES: The House Gallery/Performing Garage/Wooster Parking Lot, NYC; Schaubühne Ensemble Production with 100 extras in Berlin, Germany, 1980
 
JUICE: A THEATER CANTATA
85 Performers
 
  PERFORMANCES: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC; Minor Latham Playhouse, NYC  

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