Gibney Company at New York City Center Another Look by Lucinda Childs + Philip Glass
131 West 55th Street
New York, NY 10019
ON SALE AUGUST 27
Performance Schedule
Gibney Company at New York City Center: Opening Night
Gibney Company at New York City Center: Night II
Gibney Company at New York City Center: Night III
What You’ll See
This commission is the next step in Childs’ five-year residency with Gibney Company, bringing her rigorous, musical choreography into dialogue with the Company’s precision, clarity, and scale. Composed in the 1970s, Another Look at Harmony, Part 4 occupies a singular place in Glass’s output: structurally rigorous, expansive in duration, and rarely performed in full.
Across an evening-length canvas, twelve exceptional Gibney Company dancers bring Childs’ signature precision, spatial complexity, and intricate ensemble structures to life at a new scale. For the New York City Center premiere, Glass’s score will be performed live by 18 singers and an organist from Les Métaboles, creating a powerful encounter between movement and music.
“The dream has been to be in a situation where I can use all of it.”
Childs describes the music as building emotionally not through dramatic change, but through accumulation, return, and deepening intensity.
“For me it’s like an overflowing feeling rather than major changes in the music.”
Lucinda Childs + Philip Glass: A Shared History
“Before meeting Philip Glass, I didn’t have music at all.”
– Lucinda Childs, in conversation with Spencer Bailey, Time Sensitive, Recorded February 9, 2026
The creation of Another Look builds on a fifty-year artistic conversation between Lucinda Childs and Philip Glass, carried forward in a new dance.
Lucinda Childs and Philip Glass share an artistic history that stretches back fifty years, beginning with the 1976 production of Einstein on the Beach. Childs was a principal performer and choreographer in Einstein, and their work together continued with Dance in 1979, one of the defining works of both artists’ careers, and through a number of later encounters across dance, opera, and performance.
For Another Look, Childs has chosen Glass’s Another Look at Harmony, Part IV, a work for chorus and organ begun in 1975. Glass conceived the larger Another Look at Harmony project as an exploration of the relationship between rhythm and harmonic structure. Parts I–III were later incorporated into Einstein on the Beach. Part IV was not, and remained a separate work.
That history gives Another Look a particular resonance. Childs is returning to music created at almost exactly the moment when her artistic relationship with Glass began, but not to music they explored together in Einstein. Part IV comes from the same period of experimentation, while opening a different path.
Fifty years later, Childs is taking up that path with Gibney Company. Another Look premieres at New York City Center in January 2027, carrying an extraordinary artistic history with it while making something entirely new.
Collaborators
Lucinda Childs, Choreographer
Lucinda Childs, born in 1940, began her career at the Judson Dance Theater in New York in 1963. Since forming her dance company ten years later, she has created more than fifty works, both solo and ensemble, and has received numerous awards, including the Dance Magazine Award, the Golden Lion from the Venice Biennale, and the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for lifetime achievement. In 1976, she was featured in the landmark avant-garde opera Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, for which she won an Obie Award.
In 1979, Childs choreographed one of her most enduring works, Dance, with music by Philip Glass and film décor by Sol LeWitt. The work toured internationally and has been added to the repertory of the Lyon Opera Ballet. Since 1981, Childs has choreographed more than thirty works for major ballet companies and directed and choreographed operas for the Los Angeles Opera, La Monnaie in Brussels, and the Opéra national du Rhin, among others. Most recently, Childs directed and choreographed Philip Glass’s Satyagraha for Nice Opera Côte d’Azur, which premiered in November 2025. She joined Gibney Company as Resident Choreographer in January 2026 – five year creative partnership spanning 2026-2030.
Philip Glass, Composer
Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Allen Ginsberg to Doris Lessing, Leonard Cohen to David Bowie, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Philip Glass is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Juilliard School. By 1974, Glass had created a large collection of music for The Philip Glass Ensemble. The period culminated in the landmark opera, Einstein on the Beach. Since Einstein, Glass’s repertoire has grown to include music for opera, dance, theater, orchestra, and film. His scores have received Academy Award nominations (Kundun, The Hours, Notes on a Scandal) and a Golden Globe (The Truman Show). Glass received the Praemium Imperiale in 2012, the U.S. National Medal of the Arts from President Barack Obama in 2016, the 41st Kennedy Center Honors in 2018, and the GRAMMY Trustee’s Award in 2020.
Les Métaboles, Live Music
Les Métaboles’s recording of Another Look at Harmony, Part IV helped inspire Childs to return to music from the beginning of her artistic relationship with Glass. Their recording has served as the musical foundation for the creation of Another Look and will accompany the work on tour beyond its New York premiere.
Founded in 2010 at the initiative of Léo Warynski, Les Métaboles brings together professional singers devoted to the a cappella choral repertoire. Its name, drawn from a work by Henri Dutilleux, evokes transformation and reflects the ensemble’s ability to shift its sound and identity across a wide range of repertoire, with a particular grounding in contemporary music. The ensemble performs the full spectrum of choral literature for diverse audiences in France and abroad. While a cappella singing remains central to its work, Les Métaboles also collaborates regularly with orchestras and instrumental ensembles, including the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Ensemble intercontemporain, and Ensemble Multilatérale. A frequent guest at major venues and festivals, Les Métaboles has appeared at the Philharmonie de Paris, Opéra-Comique, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Cité musicale-Metz, Die Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. The ensemble is also deeply committed to contemporary creation through commissions, premieres, and the promotion of living composers. Its acclaimed discography includes Une nuit américaine, Mysterious Nativity, Jardin féerique, Le Moine et le Voyou, The Angels , Another Look, and Singing Ravel. Widely praised by critics, these recordings have established Les Métaboles as one of France’s leading choirs, recognized for vocal precision, richness of color, and adventurous programming. In 2018, the ensemble received the Prix Liliane Bettencourt.
Burke Browne, Lighting Designer
Burke Brown’s recent designs includes work with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mabou Mines, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Ars Nova, NYSF-Public Theater, Apollo Theater and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. His work has been presented at the Joyce Theater, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, New York City Center, Yerba Buena Center and across North America, Europe and Russia. His regional work includes work at Center Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, Magic Theatre, Northern Stage, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Two River Theater Company, and Playmakers Repertory Company. His international work includes productions at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, the Golden Mask Festival in Moscow, the Seoul Performing Arts Festival in South Korea, the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, Erratica in London and the Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich. Recent dance design includes work with English National Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, Parsons Dance, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Houston Ballet, St. Louis Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Compañia Nacional de Danza (Mexico), and Aszure Barton & Artists.
Karen Young, Costume Designer
Karen Young is an artist and costume designer based in New York. She has worked extensively with world renowned dance companies, choreographers, directors and artists. The breadth of her work has spanned from fine art exhibitions to costumes of many genres of contemporary performance and dance. Amongst others, she has worked with artists Eve Sussman, Matthew Barney, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Kyle Abraham, Wendy Whelan, The Royal Ballet, and Miami City Ballet, to name a few. She is currently the costume design consultant to the Martha Graham Dance Company during the process of reconstructing all of the costumes of the Graham Repertoire. Young holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, received a design fellowship from the N.E.A and Theater Communications Group, and was a visiting fellow at London College of Fashion.