The Segal Center, NYU Skirball & Improbable current Office Hours: Phelim McDermott ivestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Tuesday 28 March 2023 at 9:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11:30 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Join us for a stay, digital dialog on directing and collaboration with Phelim McDermott, the Co-Artistic Director & Co-Founder of Improbable (UK), and Frank Hentschker, Director of CUNY’s Segal Center. In advance of McDermott’s upcoming New York Premiere of Tao of Glass at NYU Skirball, they may focus on his work and profession, Improbable’s work with Open Space Technology, and McDermott’s long-term collaborations with Philip Glass.
Tao of Glass is a storytelling tapestry, carried out by McDermott with a virtuosic ensemble of musicians and puppeteers, underscored by Glass’s mesmerizing music, and shot by means of with Improbable’s trademark magical stagecraft. This New York Premiere marries ten new works from Glass with ten theatrical meditations on life, loss of life, and Taoist knowledge. At NYU Skirball from March 30-April 8, 2023.
Phelim McDermott is the Co-Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Improbable. He has directed famend productions across the globe (Shockheaded Peter, Beauty and the Beast), most not too long ago the World Premiere of The Hours on the Metropolitan Opera, and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s latest musical extravaganza, My Neighbour Totoro. Improbable’s Website.
Philip Glass has had a unprecedented and unprecedented impression on the musical and mental lifetime of our occasions. His acclaimed works embody symphonies, movie scores, wide-ranging creative collaborations, and such operas as Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha, Akhnaten, and The Voyage. Website.
Tao of Glass was commissioned by Manchester International Festival, Improbable, Perth Festival, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Hong Kong New Vision Arts Festival and Carolina Performing Arts – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in affiliation with Naomi Milgrom AO. Originally carried out at Manchester International Festival 2019.