Rinde Eckert will be playing as a Guest Performer in MJDC’s ambitious new work, Global Moves. This work brings companies from different parts of the globe together to respond through movement and dialogue to this current atmosphere of heightened fear. Representing countries facing their own turmoil and disunity, these artists gather to make a spirited new evening-length dance in June 2022.

Rinde Eckert plays Harold, a clockmaker working on a book called The Aging Magician. He has a bicycle he rides around his shop. He plays the accordion. His sister calls him a lot. He takes the F train home. He hears the voices of children.

Aging Magician is a meditation on the gifts we leave behind for those who come after us, and the hope that they pick up where we left off. It is also a celebration of youth, imagination, and the peculiar magic of ordinary life.

PERFORMANCES

FRI, MAY 13 at 7:30PM
SAT, MAY 14 at 2PM
SAT, MAY 14 at 7:30PM

Kronos Quartet’s virtuosity and sense of adventure are on full display in this performance. George Crumb’s Black Angels, the iconic work that inspired the founding of the ensemble, is a powerful parable written in response to the Vietnam War, scored for amplified string quartet with percussive sounds, spoken-word passages, and other special effects. Crumb’s work is pointedly paired with the My Lai Suite, written by Jonathan Berger (music) and Harriet Scott Chessman (libretto) for Kronos Quartet, Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, and vocalist Rinde Eckert. Adding to the excitement are new works by Aleksandra Vrebalov (co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall) and inti figgis-vizueta.

Tickets from $65 to $80.