Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, is proud to announce its spring 2022 season Featuring Commissions Celebrating New York’s Modern, Street, and Vernacular Dance and Beatbox artists, and World Premiere of Third Bird by Isaac Mizrahi, Nico Muhly, and John Heginbotham. Throughout the pandemic, Works & Process continued to provide opportunities for artists and pioneered the bubble residency to support their work safely. The spring 2022 season will feature the official world premieres of works created by New York artists – many representing historically marginalized performing art cultures – and incubated during the peak of the pandemic inside 2020–21 Works & Process bubble residencies. Alongside the commissions, Works & Process will present performance excerpts and artists discussions of new works prior to their premieres at leading organizations including BAAD!, BAM, Boston Ballet, Federal Hall, Glimmerglass Festival, The Metropolitan Opera, and New York City Ballet. Taking place in the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Peter B. Lewis Theater at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, all programs invite audiences to embrace artistic process and uniquely blend performance highlights with insightful artists discussions.

Season at a Glance
Commissions and World Premieres
A Chronicle of a Pivot at a Point in Time by Jamar Roberts
Ladies of Hip-Hop
Les Ballet Afrik: New York Is Burning by Omari Wiles
The Missing Element
Music from the Sole: I Didn’t Come to Stay
Rose: You Are Who You Eat by John Jarboe
Third Bird, libretto by Isaac Mizrahi, music by Nico Muhly, and choreography by John Heginbotham
Highlights and Discussions
Boston Ballet: Mikko Nissinen, Lia Cirio, Shantell Martin, and Melissa Toogood
Federal Hall: The Democracy Project with Larissa FastHorse, Michael R. Jackson, and Bruce Norris
Glimmerglass Festival New Works
The Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet by Brett Dean, libretto by Matthew Jocelyn
New York City Ballet: Silas Farley
Alethea Pace and Yin Yue
Washington National Opera: Written in Stone with Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang and Kamala Sankaram and A.M. Homes

“forward thinking”
“an exceptional opportunity to understand something of the creative process”
– The New York Times