Portrait of Toni Morrison
Courtesy of
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Toni Morrison and Rolex |
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Art is Otherwise
Lecture with Toni Morrison |
| Monday, March 5 at 7pm |
Toni Morrison, Nobel-prize winning author, reflects on her experiences at the Louvre Museum, where she curated a multidisciplinary series last November around the theme “The Foreigner’s Home.” FIAF is proud to host this special evening as the opening event of Art is Otherwise, a four-day festival in New York mirroring the “conversation” that Morrison created in France.
The festival also includes a unique performance installation by choreographer William Forsythe, as well as a concert by the Alliance Players, curated and commented on stage by Morrison herself. Both events take place at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. See details below.
Art is Otherwise is presented by American Friends of the Louvre, Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, Forsythe Foundation, the French Institute Alliance Française and Musée du Louvre. |
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In English
Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street
Members $10
Students w/ID $10
Non-Members $15 |
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Related Offsite Events:
William Forsythe's You made me a monster
March 6 & 7, 2007 -
7pm, 8pm, 9pm, 10pm
Tickets: $20
Concert with Alliance Players and Toni Morrison
March 8, 2007-
8pm
Tickets: $20
The Alliance Players will perform an evening of chamber music at BAC, featuring pieces introduced by Toni Morrison to illustrate the theme of exile in music. Focusing on composers who went into exile – or were in exile in their homeland – the program will showcase compositions by eighteenth-century West Indies composer Chevalier de Saint Georges, African-American composer Harry Thacker Burleigh, Gustav Mahler, as well as New York-inspired works by Antonín Dvorák and pieces from Arnold Schoenberg’s American period.
Ticket Central Box Office
212 279 4200 or ticketcentral.com
Venue: Baryshnikov Arts Center,
Howard Gilman Performance Space
450 West 37 Street, New York
Information: 646 731 3200
baryshnikovdancefoundation.org |
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Toni Morrison and Rolex:
Toni Morrison was the first literature mentor in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, an international philanthropic programme that seeks out talented young artists and pairs them with great masters for a year of creative collaboration. During the inaugural cycle of the Rolex Initiative (2002-2003), Toni Morrison worked with Australian novelist Julia Leigh.
The Rolex Initiative encompasses the areas of dance, literature, music, film, theatre, and visual arts. In each of these fields, one senior artist of outstanding stature and reputation helps a younger artist learn, grow and create. Other Mentors who have served in this biennial programme include William Forsythe, David Hockney, Jessye Norman, Robert Wilson, Mario Vargas Llosa, Sir Peter Hall, Julie Taymor, Stephen Frears and Tahar Ben Jelloun. |
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