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Welcome Back to The Shed
It’s my great pleasure to welcome you back to The Shed tonight, more than a year after we closed our doors to help fight the spread of Covid-19. We’ve all missed live performance, and we’re honored to have you here to share it with us once again.
Collectively, the pandemic has cost us innumerable losses, and affected many in unequal ways. An Audience with… offers the opportunity to restore a few of those losses, contributing to a reawakening of our city and bringing us together again in a communal space of creativity. You’ve supported us through our past year of digital programming with November and our Up Close series and our exhibition Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water—we appreciate you so much for that—but nothing can replace the collective experience of witnessing live performance, together.
Since last June, I’ve worked as part of New York State’s flexible spaces task force, in partnership with a wonderful group of cultural leaders from other nonprofit organizations, to assemble the robust guidelines that have allowed our spaces to reopen safely. This group has modeled an inspiring, collaborative way of working in mutual support of our sector, and I sincerely thank the state, the city, NY PopsUp, and my task force members Rebecca Robertson, Sade Lythcott, Pat Cruz, Susan Feldman, and Kristina Newman-Scott, as well as Jane Rosenthal, Emily Eakin, and Ken Sunshine.
Live performance comes to life in the presence of others. Admiration, respect, and thanks to our artists performing in this series: Kesley Lu and their ensemble and management; the New York Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Deborah Borda, and Isaac Thompson; Renée Fleming, Bill Frisell, Christian McBride, and Dan Tepfer, as well as Paul Batsel; Michelle Wolf, Jared Freid, and Cipha Sounds; and Zainab Johnson.
My admiration and gratitude goes to The Shed’s talented and dedicated staff, our stellar Board of Directors, and our wonderful Shed members who continue to support and sustain us.
Thank you to our partners at Live Nation, and to our partners at M&T Bank, Desiree and Olivier Berggruen, the Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Commissioning Fund, the Shed Commissioners, and the Charina Endowment Fund for making An Audience with… possible.
Finally, my gratitude goes to you—artists and audiences alike—for joining us tonight in these acts of creativity, offering us the chance to experience that most precious thing, live performance.
—Alex Poots, Artistic Director and CEO
A Note from Kelsey Lu
This opera is a sonic recalibration acknowledging the transformation we’re all involved in. From jarring dissonance mirroring a resistance to facing one’s own traumas, as well as the collective, to harmonious drones showering a mycelial cloud that envelops everyone present into a sense of peace and transience. A womb space. Three movements, no intermission, reimagining original songs as well as newly founded ones. An improvisational sonic dance that moves the audience through the psychedelics of space. An experimentation with trusting that you’ll leave wanting to continue to live a little bit more than when you arrived.
Performing Tonight
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Madani Younis, Chief Executive Producer
Laura Aswad, Producer
Marc Warren, Director of Production
Daisy Peele, Associate Producer
Annabel Thompson, Associate Producer
Sarah Pier, Production Manager
Pope Jackson, Production Manager
Peter W. May and Oscar L. Tang, Co-Chairman
Deborah Borda, Linda and Mitch Hart President and CEO
Adam W. Cox, Executive Director
Isaac Thompson, Managing Director
Justin Brown, Vice President, Production and Venues
Adam Crane, Vice President, External Affairs
Lisa Grow, Vice President, Marketing and Customer Experience
Phil Gutierrez, Production Manager
Megan Henschel, Artistic Planning Manager
Jen Luzzo, Director, Public Relations
Aileen MacDonald, Orchestra Personnel Administrator
Patrick O’Reilly, Operations Associate
Brendan Timins, Director of Touring and Operations
John Torres, Lighting Designer
Stuart Burgess, Head Electrician – McCourt
Stefan Carrillo, Head Carpenter – McCourt
Jim van Bergen, Head Audio – McCourt
Seth Huling, A2
Mike D'Anna, Camera Hand
Matt Dinsick, Camera Hand
Weston Raab, Camera Hand
Maytté Martinez, Camera Hand
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