PlayBAC Series 4 (Installment 1) Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker / Rosas at Baryshnikov Arts Center

Verklärte Nacht (N.Y. Premiere)
Filmed JANUARY 2019 I Jerome Robbins Theater
APRIL 8 - 15 (Thursday at 5PM EST - Thursday at 5PM EST)
Free and available on demand at bacnyc.org

Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) is set to composer Arnold Schönberg's late Romantic score based on an 1866 poem by Richard Dehmel about a woman who confesses to the man she loves that she is pregnant with another man's child. Originally choreographed in 1995 for an ensemble, this 2014 reconstruction is derived from a process of reduction, concentrating the poem's dramatic structure in an evocative dance for three performers from which the narrative lines and expressive modulations emerge.