Works & Process Announces Performance-Only Tickets for Gala Performance, Featuring Robert Rauschenberg Dance Collaborations
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Works & Process
Works & Process announces that performance-only tickets are now available for their upcoming Gala Performance, Robert Rauschenberg Dance Collaborations, featuring works by
Trisha Brown Dance Company and Paul Taylor Dance Company.
On October 10, 2025, the Guggenheim New York opens Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can’t Be Stopped as part of the museum’s Collection in Focus series. Celebrating Rauschenberg’s 100th birthday, the exhibition brings together over a dozen seminal works from the Guggenheim collection and loans from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to honor his boundary-pushing creativity, experimental spirit, and lasting impact on contemporary art. In celebration of opening week, Works & Process presents a one-night-only rotunda project exploring Rauschenberg’s collaborations with choreographers Trisha Brown and Paul Taylor. The public exhibition opens at 8PM and will be followed by live performances starting at 9PM.
The Trisha Brown Dance Company will perform an excerpt from Astral Converted (1991), originally commissioned by the National Gallery. The work incorporates Rauschenberg’s gleaming towers outfitted with motion sensors, lighting, and sound designed to detect the presence of dancers and respond to their movement.John Cage’s score, an eight-track recording of live musicians, emanates from tapes embedded in mobile towers. When the work premiered, the audience was seated on the National Gallery’s gradually rising steps. For this iteration, the audience will stand on the spiraling ramps of the Guggenheim rotunda, offering a unique 360-degree perspective.
The Paul Taylor Dance Company will perform 3 Epitaphs (1956), a witty and inventive exploration of posture and gesture set to early New Orleans jazz, featuring faceless figures moving in gray leotards. Taylor’s Tracer (1962), set to music by James Tenney, reveals the refined elegance and simplicity of his choreography alongside Robert Rauschenberg’s spinning bicycle wheel, which playfully draws the audience’s eye.
The evening takes place at the Guggenheim New York, in the Rotunda at 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10128. Tickets are $150 and can be purchased here.
Works & Process Lead Donors
Lead funding provided by Adam and Abigail Flatto, Christian Humann Foundation, Leon Levy Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Stephen Kroll Reidy, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Caroline M. Sharp, The Evelyn Sharp Foundation, The SHS Foundation, and Eugene and Jean Stark.
Additional support provided by Jody and John Arnhold, Jeff and Susan Campbell, Cate Caruso, Stuart H. Coleman and Meryl Rosofsky, Paul Cronson, Duke Dang and Charles E. Rosen, Lucy and Philip Dobrin, Elizabeth Sharp Edens and Wes Edens, The Fanwood Foundation, Bart Friedman and Wendy Stein, Agnes Gund, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Barbara Ritchin, Denise and Andrew Saul, and Randall Sharp.
Works & Process is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
About Works & Process
Championing performing artists and their creative process at each step from studio to stage, Works & Process produces fully funded residencies and presents events that go behind the scenes, blending artist discussion and performance highlights. Works & Process events transcend the proscenium, encouraging audiences to spectate and participate beyond the stage, and culminate in receptions in the Guggenheim rotunda to continue the conversation.
Works & Process produces over 25 creative residencies annually. Expanding from our bubble residency program created during the COVID-19 pandemic, Works & Process now has a network of over a dozen partners in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont. In over 100 Works & Process residencies, supporting over 1,000 artists, incubated works have been recognized with awards and grants, and have toured nationally—and internationally with the U.S. State Department. These out-of-town residencies provide 24/7 studio access, on-site housing, access to health insurance enrollment, industry-leading artist fees, and a transportation stipend to facilitate uninterrupted creative process.
Beyond the Guggenheim, we also partner with organizations across New York, including 92NY and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division. During the summer, we curate and present free outdoor dance programs with Manhattan West and City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage.
Works and Process, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. Tax ID: 13-3592291
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