The opera “Anna Nicole,” based on the life and death of Playbill model and octogenarian billionaire’s bride Anna Nicole Smith, is one of 34 works of opera, theater, dance and music that will be presented in the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2013 New Wave Festival, September 17 through December 22.
Also on the schedule is the collaboration between actress Fiona Shaw (Temptation of Christ) and dancer Phyllida Lloyd in presenting Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”; “A Rite,” a dance/theater collaboration between SITI director Anne Bogart and choreographer Bill T. Jones to mark the centenary of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, and “Goldberg’s Variations” which presents video animations of 12 classic Rube Goldberg inventions set to the music of Andy Biskin
Complete list:
Opera
Anna Nicole……………….Mark-Anthony Turnage, Richard Thomas
War Sum Up…………….. Hotel Pro Forma, Latvian Radio Choir
Theater
The Blue Dragon…………Ex Machina, Robert Lepage
Not What Happened……..Ain Gordon, Pick Up Performance Co(s
Hans was Heiri……………Zimmermann & de Perrot
Nosferatu….TR Warszawa,Teatr Narodowy, Grzegorz Jarzyna
An Enemy of the People………..Henrik Ibsen, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
The Humans………………Alexandre Singh
Water……………………….Filter Theatre, David Farr
La Belle et la Bête……….Lemieux Pilon 4D Art
Bodycast………….Suzanne Bocanegra, Frances McDormand, Paul Lazar
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner……Fiona Shaw, Phyllida Lloyd
A Piece of Work………….Annie Dorsen
Music
The Table…………………Karbido
We Have An Anchor……Jem Cohen
Documerica………………ETHEL, Steve Cosson
The Edge of Heaven……Gary Lucas, Gods and Monsters
The Sweet Science Suite………….Fred Ho
Goldberg’s Variations……………Andy Biskin, Rube Goldberg
Electronium: The Future Was Then…Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson
21c Liederabend, op. 3……Paola Prestini, Beth Morrison
Dance
A Rite………….Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, SITI Company, Anne Bogart
Sider…………………………The Forsythe Company
DanceMotion USAsm ……..Doug Varone and Dancers
Come, and Back Again…..David Dorfman Dance
En Atendant & Cesena…...Rosas, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Run Don’t Run………….Brian Brooks Moving Company
Dark Theater…………….Dance Heginbotham
Dark Lark………………….Kate Weare Company
And then, one thousand years of peace…..Ballet Preljocaj
Sun………………………..Hofesh Shechter Company
Play/Pause………………Susan Marshall & Company, David Lang
Moses(es)…………………Fist & Heel Performance Group, Reggie Wilson
Bleed……………………..Tere O’Connor Dance
