Wingspace Pin-Up Blog

Opus
By Michael Hollinger
Directed by Matthew Arbour

October 26 – November 14, 2010

Making great art is never easy. Making it in perfect harmony might just be impossible. When one member of an esteemed string quartet is fired days before the most important performance of their career, the others must quickly find a replacement. Personalities clash, tensions rise, and the musicians grapple with how far they will go to achieve excellence. This play—about the shockingly difficult dynamics of a string quartet—has been called "vibrant", "astounding", and "truly remarkable." It is a passionate, smart, funny and moving story that resonates with the creative artist in all of us.

set design: Lee Savage*
costume design: Lesley Sorenson
lighting design: Tyler Micoleau
sound design: Zach Williamson

*Wingspace Member

Opus
By Michael Hollinger
Directed by Matthew Arbour

October 26 – November 14, 2010

Making great art is never easy. Making it in perfect harmony might just be impossible. When one member of an esteemed string quartet is fired days before the most important performance of their career, the others must quickly find a replacement. Personalities clash, tensions rise, and the musicians grapple with how far they will go to achieve excellence. This play—about the shockingly difficult dynamics of a string quartet—has been called "vibrant", "astounding", and "truly remarkable." It is a passionate, smart, funny and moving story that resonates with the creative artist in all of us.

set design: Lee Savage*
costume design: Lesley Sorenson
lighting design: Tyler Micoleau
sound design: Zach Williamson

*Wingspace Member

In conjunction with Chaos and Classicism, the Guggenheim Museum is pleased to premiere Coup de Foudre, a contemporary art and performance project based on a reinterpretation of Jean Cocteau’s classic film The Blood of a Poet (Le sang d’un poète, 1930) by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky and Corey Baker, resident choreographer of the New York–based company Ballet Noir, and featuring the Telos Ensemble. Cocteau’s work in film, painting, sculpture, poetry, and theater has engaged many themes that continue to drive today’s digital and multimedia contemporary art. In the eyes of Miller and Baker, The Blood of a Poet examines the role of language in relation to cinema and dance and creates a milieu where poetry becomes imagist at every level. For Miller, Cocteau’s sense of interdisciplinary production anticipates the DJ mix through the French artist’s use of musicality and the insertion of classical forms into modern contexts. Baker sees Cocteau’s use of movement in film as animating the inanimate by setting simple images into motion. Coup de Foudre explores the ambiguous relationship between modern compositional strategies, based on sampling and digital media, and an art experience tied to cinematic history and contemporary times.

Lighting by Scott Bolman

$30, $25 for members, $10 for students

Lighting by Scott Bolman

Amadeus
by Peter Shaffer
Directed by Brooke Ciardelli
October 6 - 24, 2010
In this riveting, suspenseful thriller, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the brilliant but boorish musical genius who has charmed the Viennese court. His rival, the scheming composer Antonio Salieri, tries every trick in the book to discredit him. Comedy, treachery and glamour combine for an exciting evening at the theater! Winner of five Tony Awards!

Lighting design by Scott Bolman

As part of the Filament Festival, Wingspace is creating an interstitial lighting installation for a program of commissioned short-form performance works across the spectrum of dance, theater, music, and the visual arts. Participating artists include: Wally Cardona; SUE-C & Laetitia Sonami; Jen Denike; Yehuda Duenyas; Sam Hillmer, Miro Dance Theatre; MTAA; Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle.

Robert Wilson, working with Carla Blank, creates a performance-portrait inspired by Suzushi Hanayagi, legendary Japanese performer and choreographer of classical dance. Wilson started working with Hanayagi in his 1984 production of The Knee Plays, which was partially developed in Japan. In 2008 he sought her out in an Osaka home for the elderly where she has been living for years in a state of dementia. Archival and newly filmed material of Hanayagi by Richard Rutkowski is combined with recreation of performance material and newly choreographed dances performed by Jonah Bokaer and Illenk Gentille and others. The work reflects Hanayagi’s current state and serves as a poetic monument to a working friendship.

Collaborative lighting design by Scott Bolman