Re: Awakenings - The Worlds of Oliver Sacks (performances - NYC)

Featuring the critically acclaimed Orchestra of St. Luke’s in an evening of music inspired by the writings of Oliver Sacks, Re: Awakenings (Music) includes the U.S. premiere of renowned composer Tobias Picker’s Awakenings ballet suite accompanied by a solo dance performance by Daniel Hay-Gordon, choreographed by Aletta Collins. The orchestra will also perform in a concert version of selected passages from Michael Nyman’s opera The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat…

Re: Awakenings (Dance) will feature Donna Uchizono Company on April 18th at 8pm and April 20th at 4pm in one world premiere and one restaged work. A choreographer with a knack for “making something out of nothing” (Philadelphia City Paper), Uchizono’s newest solo work, Out of Frame, was commissioned by Live Arts exclusively for Live Ideas: The Worlds of Oliver Sacks. A multi-media production, the work features music by Chopin and selected texts from Sacks’ Awakenings…

Re: Awakenings (Theater) is comprised of two versions of A Kind of Alaska, Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter’s one-act play, presented on April 20th at 8pm and April 21st at 3:30pm. Written in 1982, the play was inspired by Sacks’ Awakenings and tells the story of the quickening back to life of a bedbound older woman. The Re: Awakenings (Theater) production will commence with a spoken language version of the work, directed by Karen Kohlhaas and performed by Lisa Emery, Rebecca Henderson and Reed Birney, with two American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters. The second iteration of the work will be a version rendered entirely in ASL…

All performances will also feature a screening of Bill Morrison’s Re: Awakenings commissioned film with an original Philip Glass score.

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