Three Fisher Center Productions Travel to London, Luxembourg, Philadelphia, and Paris
Marc Crousillat, left, and Lindsey Jones, right, in the premiere of Pastoral at the Fisher Center. Photo by Maria Baranova
In October, three Fisher Center productions are touring beyond Bard’s Annandale campus. Pastoral, a collaboration between Fisher Center LAB Choreographer in Residence Pam Tanowitz, composer Caroline Shaw, and the artist Sarah Crowner, was performed earlier this year at Lincoln Center. In early October, it traveled to Luxembourg at the Grand Théâtre, and also received glowing reviews across four performances at the Barbican in London. The dance was described by The Times as “ravishing, like looking at a gorgeous giant gallery canvas that keeps redefining itself.”
Suddenly Last Summer, composer Courtney Bryan’s first chamber opera, commissioned by the Fisher Center, is an adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s one-act play of the same name. Opera Philadelphia is presenting three performances of Suddenly Last Summer from October 22 to 25.
Choreography of State, a piece by Distinguished Artist in Residence, Theater and Performance, and Director of the Center for Human Rights and the Arts, Tania El Khoury, is currently showing at Chaillot, France’s national dance theater in Paris. The piece is a Fisher Center LAB commission, and will also be presented at the Performing Arts Lab on campus December 4-6, as part of a festival of new performances exploring the subject of surveillance, in partnership with Bard's Center for Human Rights and the Arts and Human Rights Program.
Additionally, the Tony Award-winning Fisher Center production of llinoise, based on Sufjan Stevens’s album of the same name, is returning to Chicago Shakespeare Theater for a six-week engagement in February and March. Illinoise premiered at the Fisher Center at Bard College from June 23 until July 2, 2023, during SummerScape. It went on to earn four Tony Award nominations, including for Best Musical; choreographer Justin Peck won a Tony for his work on the musical.
The Bard Dance Program sees the pursuit of artistry and intellect as a single endeavor, and fosters the discovery of a dance vocabulary that is meaningful to the dancer/choreographer and essential to their creative ambitions.
The Human Rights Program at Bard is a transdisciplinary program involving such diverse fields as literature, political studies, history, anthropology, economics, film and media, and art history. It emphasizes integrative historical and conceptual investigations, and offers a rigorous background that can inform meaningful practical engagements. The program seeks to orient students in the intellectual tradition of human rights and provide them the resources with which to appreciate and criticize its contemporary status.
Post Date: 10-13-2026
Suddenly Last Summer, composer Courtney Bryan’s first chamber opera, commissioned by the Fisher Center, is an adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s one-act play of the same name. Opera Philadelphia is presenting three performances of Suddenly Last Summer from October 22 to 25.
Choreography of State, a piece by Distinguished Artist in Residence, Theater and Performance, and Director of the Center for Human Rights and the Arts, Tania El Khoury, is currently showing at Chaillot, France’s national dance theater in Paris. The piece is a Fisher Center LAB commission, and will also be presented at the Performing Arts Lab on campus December 4-6, as part of a festival of new performances exploring the subject of surveillance, in partnership with Bard's Center for Human Rights and the Arts and Human Rights Program.
Additionally, the Tony Award-winning Fisher Center production of llinoise, based on Sufjan Stevens’s album of the same name, is returning to Chicago Shakespeare Theater for a six-week engagement in February and March. Illinoise premiered at the Fisher Center at Bard College from June 23 until July 2, 2023, during SummerScape. It went on to earn four Tony Award nominations, including for Best Musical; choreographer Justin Peck won a Tony for his work on the musical.
The Bard Dance Program sees the pursuit of artistry and intellect as a single endeavor, and fosters the discovery of a dance vocabulary that is meaningful to the dancer/choreographer and essential to their creative ambitions.
The Human Rights Program at Bard is a transdisciplinary program involving such diverse fields as literature, political studies, history, anthropology, economics, film and media, and art history. It emphasizes integrative historical and conceptual investigations, and offers a rigorous background that can inform meaningful practical engagements. The program seeks to orient students in the intellectual tradition of human rights and provide them the resources with which to appreciate and criticize its contemporary status.
Post Date: 10-13-2026