
What to wear
Present
What to wear
Direction, Libretto and Production by Richard Foreman
Music by Michael Gordon
Conducted by Alan Pierson
Creative Direction by Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson
- Part of
- Next Wave 2025 and
- Fall 2025
Now, in its New York debut as part of Next Wave 2025 and Prototype Festival, What to wear is remounted for the first time in 20 years, returned to its original Richard Foreman staging by Big Dance Theater co-founders Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar. Audiences have a unique opportunity to see an original Richard Foreman production brought carefully back to life. In Foreman and Gordon’s pageant of seductiveness gone wrong, beauty gives way to something more transcendent—and our contemporary world of fast fashion and influencer culture renders their acerbic critiques still cutting and relevant as ever. A collaboration between BAM, Beth Morrison Projects, Prototype, and Bang on a Can, this historic re-staging honors Foreman's trailblazing legacy, and confirms Gordon’s ceaseless musical vitality. .
Original Production by Cal Arts Center for New Performance


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