MetLive Arts Presents January Performances

The MetLifeArts presents the following programs for their January schedule.

The Museum Workout

(World Premiere)

Thursdays through Sundays, Jan. 19 - 22 and 26 - 29, 2017; Feb. 2 - 5 and 9 - 12, 2017.

8:30 am, The Met Fifth Avenue

Conceived and choreographed by Monica Bill Barnes & Company

Narration and route by Maira Kalman

An entirely original and audacious new work commissioned by The Met, The Museum Workout is the result of a collaboration between the innovative and groundbreaking Dance Company Monica Bill Barnes & Company, and writer/illustrator Maira Kalman.

Through constant movement, an intimate group of participants experience an awakening to their surroundings unlike any other Museum tour, in the morning hours before it opens to the public.

Led by choreographer Monica Bill Barnes and dance partner Anna Bass (wearing sequined dresses and tennis shoes), Kalman selects the artwork visited along the tour, and the Workout soundtrack mixes her recorded voice with Disco and Motown hits.

Tickets start at $40. [Please note: These events are sold out.] Brahms, Menzel & Klinger: The Canvas of Sound Sight and Sound Series with Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now

Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, 2 pm, The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Brahms's Symphony No. 3 and the artwork of Adolf Menzel and Max Klinger Critic Eduard Hanslick called this symphony "artistically the most nearly perfect" of Brahms's works. The composer was profoundly interested in contemporary painting, and especially admired two living artists of his time: Adolf Menzel and Max Klinger. Symphony No. 3 invites an exploration of the connection between the visual and the musical in Brahms's world. Tickets start at $30. For tickets and information, visit www.metmuseum.org/tickets or call 212 - 570 - 3949.

Tickets are also available at the Great Hall Box Office, which is open Monday - Saturday, 11 am - 3:30 pm

Tickets include admission to the Museum on day of performance. Prices are subject to change.

Bring the Kids for $1 tickets for children (ages 7 -16) are available for all performances (unless specifically noted) when accompanied by an adult with a full - price ticket. For more information, visit www.metmuseum.org/tickets, call 212 - 570 - 3949, or visit the box office.

About MetLiveArts

The critically acclaimed performance series at The Metropolitan Museum of Art commissions and presents contemporary performance through the lens of the Museum's exhibitions and gallery spaces. MetLiveArts invites artists, performers, curators, and thought - leaders to create groundbreaking new work, including live and digital performances, as well as site- specific durational performances that have been named some of the most "memorable" and "best of" performances in New York City by the New York Times,New Yorker, and Broadway World.

Credits

The Museum Workout

This program is made possible by the Jerome Robbins Foundation and the One World Fund.