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Venue: Park Avenue Armory, New York City

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Address643 Park Avenue
New York City
NY NY 10065
United States
Google maps40° 46' 3.419" N 73° 57' 58.463" W
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LA Dance Project: a fugitive Romeo & Juliet Suite in New York

David Adrian Freeland Jr and Morgan Lugo in Benjamin Millepied’s Romeo & Juliet Suite © Stephanie Berger
Benjamin Millepied's Romeo & Juliet Suite for LA Dance Project, to Prokofiev sliced and diced, has arrived in New York. Stunningly staged, with a puzzling shortage of characters. 
**111
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Haas’ 11,000 Strings at Park Avenue Armory

11,000 Strings at Park Avenue Armory © Stephanie Berger
Like Ligeti before him, Georg Friedrich Haas makes the avant garde approachable as this performance of 11,000 Strings reveals. 
***11
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A brief journey into the timeless world of Meredith Monk

Meredith Monk performs Indra's Net at Park Avenue Armory © Maria Baranova

The North American premiere of Indra's Net finds Meredith Monk back in her familiar, inexplicable realm. 

*****
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An immersion into the psyche of Stockhausen at the Park Avenue Armory

Inside Light at Park Avenue Armory © Marco Anelli

Inside Light, which takes music from Karlheinz Stockhausen's massive, 29-hour opera cycle Licht, adds to the enigma while creating its own spectacle. 

****1
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Bach cantatas, American spirituals, global calamity

Shall We Gather at the River? © Stephanie Berger
The Gospel according to Peter Sellars: an intermingling of Bach’s cantatas and American spirituals depicts an environmental message that the impending end won’t be personal, but global.
***11
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common ground(s)/The Rite of Spring: an impactful debut in New York

Malou Airaudo and Germaine Acogny in common ground(s) © Stephanie Berger
Occurring at the Park Avenue Armory, the double bill program investigated stories of the crone and the maiden. They were united by the mother who brought us together – Pina Bausch.
****1
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Kaufmann and Deutsch shine in Claus Guth's dramatized Schwanengesang

Jonas Kaufmann © Monika Rittershaus, courtesy of Park Avenue Armory
In New York's Park Avenue Armory, Claus Guth imagines Schubert's final song collection set in a military hospital, Jonas Kaufmann as one of its soldiers with a story to tell. 
****1
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Kolesnikov defines Celestial Navigation at Park Avenue Armory

Pavel Kolesnikov © Da Ping Luo
In an homage to Joseph Cornel's “Celestial Navigation”, Kolesnikov conceived his own musical constellation with great insight.
****1
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