Works & Process at the Guggenheim Announces Spring Line-Up

The lineup of offerings for the 2011 spring season of Works & Process at the Guggenheim has been announced. The program is presented in the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed 285-seat Peter B. Lewis Theater. Each 80-minute program includes a performance and artist discussion, as well as a food and wine reception.

Among the highlights will be two performances of a sneak peek at the new musical The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, to be offered April 17-18. Excerpts from the piece, which will be jointly produced by New York Theatre Workshop and Playwrights Horizons, will be performed and members of the creative team, including director John Langs, bookwriter Joy Gregory, and composer Gunnar Madsen.

Dance programming will feature prominently in the Works & Process series and will include Giselle Revisited (January 9-10), which will feature Pacific Northwest Ballet Carrie Imler, Carla Körbes, James Moore, and Seth Orza, as well as dance scholar Doug Fullington and Giselle scholar Marian Smith.

There will also be a new program of choreography by Donald Byrd and Pam Tanowitz, set to the music of John Zorn, to be offered February 27-28; a series of new performances curated by Robert Wilson (March 13-14), two performance by Royal Danish Ballet dancers (March 20-21), and a new piece created by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, set to David Del Tredici’s “Grosse Tarantella” (March 27-28).

For more information, visit www.worksandprocess.org.