Mark Morris and Isaac Mizrahi collaborated on the Met’s production of Gluck’s ORFEO ED EURIDICE (photo by Marty Sohl)
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
Thursday, January 20, free, 6:00
917-275-6975
www.nypl.org
In June 1992, Mark Morris presented the world premiere of THREE PRELUDES, a dance piece set to short works by George Gershwin and featuring costumes by Brooklyn-born designer Isaac Mizrahi. In May 2007, Morris and Mizrahi teamed up again, this time for a production of Gluck’s ORFEO ED EURIDICE at the Met that marked Morris’s debut at the venerable institution. That opera will be back at the Met this spring, playing April 29 – May 14, so in celebration of that and in conjunction with the exhibition “On Stage in Fashion” at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Morris and Mizrahi will take part in a free conversation at the library on Thursday night, moderated by writer and editor Sharon DeLano. The exhibition comprises more than one hundred garments from the Museum of the City of New York and photographs and memorabilia from the NYPL focusing on the collaboration between fashion designers and performers.