Get Astounded!

Join us in 2024 for an exhilarating lineup of performances from international and New York City artists. We’ve got much-anticipated NYC Premieres from Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Teatro La Re-Sentida, Beth Gill, Doug Varone, and Catapult Opera; a World Premieres from Raja Feather Kelly; and more! Come see something new.

JAN 12-13

William Shakespeare's As You Like It

The title of William Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT holds a double meaning that teasingly suggests this is a play to please all tastes. Is it possible? With his subversive updating of the Bard’s classic, cultural provocateur Cliff Cardinal seeks to find out. The show exults in dark humour, difficult subject matter, and raw emotion.

Presented in partnership with Under the Radar

JAN 29

SUZANNE BOCANEGRA: BODYCAST STARRING RUTH NEGGA

Visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra uses theater to interrogate the history and practice of visual art. The third lecture in a four-part series taking the stage at NYU Skirball this season, Bodycast mines specific details of Bocanegra’s life to create a more general meditation on art-making and shifting ideals of feminine beauty.

Starring Ruth Negga and directed by Paul Lazar.

FEB 22-24

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker: The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

In this dance solo, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker continues her journey with Bach, this time together with pianist Pavel Kolesnikov. She stays true to her main principle of using the musical score as the blueprint for choreography.

MAR 2

INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE

The International Contemporary Ensemble returns to NYU Skirball with a program of works by composer/pianist Anthony Davis and composer/vocalist Leila Adu-Gilmore. The evening will feature Adu-Gilmore’s Mahakala Oratorio (2020-23, world premiere of the live version) and Alyssum (2014);  and Davis’s Wayang No. II (Shadowdance) (1982), and Undine (1986).

MAR 7-9

TEATRO LA RE-SENTIDA: OASIS DE LA IMPUNIDAD

Chile’s Teatro La Re-sentida returns to NYU Skirball with Oasis of Impunity, cited by The New York Times as one of the top European productions of 2022 when it was performed at Berlin’s Schaubühne. Hailed as “brilliant and harrowing,” the rigorously choreographed exploration of state violence is one of those extreme works of art that is all the more disturbing for the delicate artistry of its execution. 

MAR 16-17

METTE INGVARTSEN: MOVING IN CONCERT

Moving in Concert, featuring nine dancers, imagines a universe where humans, technologies and natural materials coexist to create an abstract set of movement. Inspired by how bodies are sensorially affected by living in a digitalized world, the performance explores a poetics of plasticity, abstraction and imagination.

MAR 22-23

DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS: TO MY ARMS/RESTORE

To My Arms /Restore is a two-part work embodying Doug Varone’s decades’ long choreographic fascination between the deeply emotional and the immensely physical. Accompanied by live music by the 100-member MasterVoices and the New York Baroque Incorporated (NYBI), the entire evening will be conducted by Tony Award-winning orchestrator Ted Sperling.

APR 5-6

RAJA FEATHER KELLY/THE FEATH3R THEORY: THE ABSOLUTE FUTURE

the feath3r theory (TF3T)’s The Absolute Future (or Death, Loneliness, and The Absolute Future of the Multiverse, or How to Cover the Sun with Mud), a devised danced-theatre performance choreographed, written, and directed by Raja Feather Kelly about a group of friends who attempt to watch The Great American Eclipse (April 8, 2024) and miss it. A constellation of shadows come together in a daring mix of fiction, reality, fantasy, and surrealism.

APR 8

SUZANNE BOCANEGRA: HONOR STARRING LILI TAYLOR

Visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra uses theater to interrogate the history and practice of visual art. Honor, starring Lili Taylor and directed by Geoff Sobelle, is based on a 16th century tapestry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art titled “Honor,” which depicts 69 historical and allegorical figures who offer personal stories as moral lessons in honor and in dishonor.

APR 12-13

BETH GILL: NAIL BITER

From acclaimed contemporary choreographer Beth Gill, Nail Biter moves the viewer through portals of myth, memoir, psychodrama, and horror. Characters emerge as a collection of representations of our collective unconscious as the work pierces through the existential weight of our time and channels our contemporary angst and anxiety.

APR 19-21

CATAPULT OPERA: LA VILLE MORTE

A co-production of Catapult and the Greek National Opera, La ville morte comes to NYU Skirball for its American premiere, after opening at Athens’ Stavros Niarchos Hall in January 2024.