Works & Process

Works & Process We champion creative process studio-to-stage. Works & Process Residencies provides paid, creative residencies with over a dozen partners.

We present work at the Guggenheim New York, Manhattan West, NYPL for the Performing Arts, NYC Parks, and SummerStage. Works & Process, a performing-arts series that informs artistic creation through stimulating conversation and performance, is presented at the Guggenheim, Lincoln Center, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

05/15/2026

Works & Process Artist Curator in Residence Caleb Teicher is performing "Blue Skies" with Nathan Bugh in American Tap Dance Foundation (ATDF) founder Tony Waag's "Tap City" at The Joyce Theater from May 19-24. For 25 years, ATDF has been a cornerstone of the art form, honoring its past while shaping its future. This program celebrates tap across generations, styles, and artistic visions. For tickets and to see the full list of performers: https://gu.gg/42CI9oK
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video excerpt of Caleb Teicher and Nathan Bugh in "Blue Skies" at AJW SHOW 2025. Video by

05/15/2026

Join SLMDances this Saturday for a public offering as part of their Residency at BAC. A Side Of The World For A Canvas is a site-responsive dance-theater work crafted to highlight Zora Neale Hurston’s legacy.

đź“… Saturday May 16
⏰ 2-4PM
🎟️ FREE Community Program! RSVP here: https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/wipslmdances/

Open to all ages.

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This Residency and Community Program are made possible through BAC’s partnership with Works & Process at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Photo by Travis Coe / Ashfield, MA

The Dance Conservatory Rivertown Dance Academy Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College Pace University Commercial Dance The Black Cow Coffee co Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, Inc. Juneteenth Council ENU Builds Community-Empower, Network, Uplift

On the occasion of Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector, the exhibition celebrating the beginning of Pe...
05/14/2026

On the occasion of Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector, the exhibition celebrating the beginning of Peggy Guggenheim’s career as a collector between 1938–39, on May 8 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, in collaboration with Works & Process, presented two legendary solos by Martha Graham, one of the most iconic dancers of the twentieth century.

The Martha Graham Dance Company, founded by Graham 1938 and evolving from the Dance Group she founded in 1926, performed two chorographic masterpieces: Lamentation (1930), with a score by Zoltán Kodály, and Ekstasis (1933), accompanied by original music by Lehman Engel.

Lamentation
Music: Zoltán Kodály
Danced by Xin Ying

Ekstasis
Music: Lehman Engel
Danced by Anne Souder
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Photos: Arianna Ferraretto

On the occasion of the exhibition of South African artist Igshaan Adams’s work in the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Works & P...
05/11/2026

On the occasion of the exhibition of South African artist Igshaan Adams’s work in the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Works & Process in collaboration with the Museum, organized two performances with South African based group Garage Dance Ensemble, and a discussion with Adams.

On May 4-5 in Bilbao, Spain, Garage Dance Ensemble shared their overpowering energy with audiences. The dancers have worked with Igshaan Adams in the creation of some of the works currently on display in the Museum. In his practice, moving bodies on ink applied linoleum floors covered with canvas leave traces of personal and collective memories. Adams collects them to highlight the connections between people and between individuals and the community.

Choreographed and Directed by: Byron Klassen
Technical director: Faroll Coetzee
Performers: Georgia Julies, Manon-Lee Saal, Keeanu Samuels, Druwayne Strauss

Activities organized with the collaboration of Works & Process, with the support of A4 Arts Foundation and Hill Art Foundation.
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Photos by Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa, 2026. Photo: Erika Barahona Ede

to Countertenor and Opera Philadelphia General Director & President Anthony Roth Costanzo! He was most recently at Wor...
05/08/2026

to Countertenor and Opera Philadelphia General Director & President Anthony Roth Costanzo! He was most recently at Works & Process in January 2026 showing excerpts from Complications in Sue by Michael R. Jackson before the world premiere at Opera Philadelphia in February. To watch the full performance at Works & Process at Guggenheim New York, visit: https://gu.gg/4wqygIr

This new work showed how one librettist, one actor, four singers, and ten composers joined forces to make opera in a brand-new way. In his first opera libretto, Pulitzer Prize– and Tony Award–winning playwright Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop) trace the life of a woman named Sue over ten decades. Sue’s life—from the mundane to the extraordinary—unfolds, with each chapter scored by a different musical luminary.

Panel
Anthony Roth Costanzo, Opera Philadelphia General Director & President
Michael R. Jackson, Librettist
Caren Levine, Conductor
Raja Feather Kelly, Director
Zack Winokur, Director

Artists
Kiera Duffy, Soprano
Rehanna Thelwell, Mezzo-Soprano
Nicky Spence, Tenor
Nicholas Newton, Bass-Baritone

Grant Loehnig, Piano
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Photos: Elyse Mertz

Check out The New York Times article (https://gu.gg/4egik4U) by Brian Seibert spotlighting black trans femme choreograph...
04/28/2026

Check out The New York Times article (https://gu.gg/4egik4U) by Brian Seibert spotlighting black trans femme choreographer Courtney “Balenciaga” Washington—founder of the Kiki House of Juicy Couture, a leader of the House of Balenciaga, and founder of Masterz At Work Dance Family. Works & Process has supported Washington for the past 6 years with 4 commissions. Her latest work, Fearless is a co-commission with Parsons Dance and Works & Process, and will be shown at The Joyce Theater from April 29-May 10.
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These Works & Process commissions have been supported by Works & Process residencies at The Campus at Marlboro School of Music and Festival: and the Catskill Mountain Foundation (2026), Bethany Arts Community (2025),Modern Accord Depot (2024), Rockefeller Brothers Fund & Pocantico Center (2023), Bethany Arts Community (2022), and Kaatsbaan (2021).
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ALL INCLUSIVE by Masterz at Work Dance Family with Courtney Washington, March 31, 2021. Works & Process Bubble Residencies and reopening performances were made possible through the generous support of The Mellon Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Photo: Erick Munari

Masterz at Work Dance Family: ALL INCLUSIVE AND MORE by Courtney Washington Balenciaga, November 21, 2022. Photo: Jada Rodriguez

Masterz at Work Dance Family with Courtney Washington Balenciaga: SPACE, January 17, 2023. Photo: Titus Ogilvie-Laing

Masterz at Work Dance Family, January 12, 2024 at Lincoln Center. Photo: Lawrence Sumulong

MasterZ at Work Dance Family: The Diner by Courtney “Balenciaga” Washington, January 10, 2025. The 24/7 Diner was made possible, in part, by the NEFA National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and The Mellon Foundation. Photo: Elyse Mertz

Parsons Dance in Fearless by Courtney “Balenciaga” Washington at Works & Process’s Underground Uptown Dance Festival on January 9, 2026. This work was made possible by a creative residency at the Arts Center Lake Placid supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Photo: Titus Ogilvie-Laing

On April 19, Works & Process audiences got to see excerpts of Philadelphia Ballet Romeo and Juliet by Juliano Nunes, bef...
04/27/2026

On April 19, Works & Process audiences got to see excerpts of Philadelphia Ballet Romeo and Juliet by Juliano Nunes, before its premiere this Thursday at the Academy of Music, April 30- May 10.

This was recorded live for Conversations on Dance to listen to the episode: https://gu.gg/42v8uor
To watch the program on YouTube: https://gu.gg/4vTFx2T
For tickets to Romeo and Juliet: https://gu.gg/4e6XpB8

Michael Sean Breeden and Rebecca King Ferraro, hosts of Conversations on Dance, moderated a discussion with Nunes, and Artists of Philadelphia Ballet. Principals Thays Golz and Zecheng Liang; soloist Isaaca Hollis; corps de ballet member Jorge Garcia Alonso; and pianist Ian Howells performed excerpts.
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Photos: Elyse Mertz

Located in Becket, Massachusetts, Jacob's Pillow is a treasured 220-acre National Historic Landmark, a recipient of the ...
04/23/2026

Located in Becket, Massachusetts, Jacob's Pillow is a treasured 220-acre National Historic Landmark, a recipient of the prestigious National Medal of Arts, and home to America’s longest-running and largest international dance festival. See excerpts of works by Brinae Ali and Brian Brooks that were incubated with support from Jacob's Pillow, and which will culminate in Festival 2026 performances this summer. Between performance excerpts, Pamela Tatge, executive and artistic director of Jacob’s Pillow, moderates a discussion with the artists. For tickets: https://gu.gg/4eBSoR5

Leadership support for this Works & Process program is provided by Hank and Gerry Alpert.
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đź“· Summer performance on the outdoor Henry J. Leir Stage at Jacob's Pillow, Becket, Massachusetts. Photo: Christopher Duggan

In CT? On April 23-24, Yale faculty member and renowned dancer and choreographer Emily Coates presents her new work and ...
04/22/2026

In CT? On April 23-24, Yale faculty member and renowned dancer and choreographer Emily Coates presents her new work and Works & Process commission, Tell Me Where It Comes From, sourcing from George Balanchine's early archives scattered throughout New England at Yale Schwarzman Center for FREE. To RSVP: https://gu.gg/4sUEqxt

Drawing on her background as a former member of New York City Ballet, Coates creates an unexpected portrait of Balanchine's legacy, working with collaborators Ain Gordon, Derek Lucci, Charles Burnham, Melvin Chen, Krista Smith, Harriet Jung and Reid Bartelme, and Henry Seth to collage far-flung remains: unanswered letters, old photographs and music exercises, lost ballets, early muses, and more.

The project was commissioned by Works & Process to a sold-out premiere at Guggenheim New York. The iterative development has included a Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at The Church (2025) in Sag Harbor, home to George Balanchine’s grave. The project continued to be supported with a Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at the Catskill Mountain Foundation in Hunter, New York where Jacques d’Amboise lived for seven decades. Additional developmental support was provided by the Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts Dance Fund. Tell Me Where It Comes From was created in part during a residency at the Pillow Lab at Jacob's Pillow. With additional support from the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation.
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Photos from the showings at Works & Process at Guggenheim New York. Photos: Elyse Mertz

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