Fisher Center at Bard

The Fisher Center develops, produces, and presents performing arts across disciplines through new productions and context-rich programs. Learn more at fishercenter.bard.edu.

The dancers of American Ballet Theatre Studio Company join TŌN at @fisherctrbard on Fri, Feb 28 & Sat, Mar 1. Tickets & info at ton.bard.edu/events/ton-abt/ 📸: ABT Studio Company rehearsing "U Don’t Know Me" by Houston Thomas; photo by Emma Zordan

There’s a Czech focus at Bard SummerScape 2025 ⁦@fisherctrbard⁩, with details just announced of a new production of Smetana’s Dalibor and a semi-staged performance of Martinů’s Julietta as part of the 35th Bard Music Festival, Martinů and His World. fishercenter.bard.edu/whats-on/progr…

TŌN welcomes the dancers of @ABTBallet Studio Company to @fisherctrbard for our spring benefit, Feb 28 & Mar 1! Enjoy works by Jerome Robbins, George Balanchine, and others set to music performed live by a full symphony orchestra. Tickets & info at ton.bard.edu/events/ton-abt/

The Search for Power, an interactive installation and a lecture performance by Tania El Khoury and Ziad Abu-Rish, opens next Saturday, Feb 1 at CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of Art. ⚡️🔌🎧 bit.ly/search-for-pow… Installation: Feb 1–23 Live Performances: Feb 1–3 and 7–9

Conductor Leon Botstein and TŌN perform orchestral transcriptions of music by Chopin, Beethoven, and Smetana, Feb 8 & 9 at @fisherctrbard and Feb 11 at @carnegiehall. Tickets and info at ton.bard.edu/tickets/

We are excited to announce that the Fisher Center has been awarded a grant by the @NYSCArts for FY25. We are proud to be among the 509 artists and 1,497 organizations across the state who were awarded in this cycle. 📸: Peter Aaron ’68/Esto

Spring 2025 at the Fisher Center is on sale now! 🎟️ Join us in the New Year for a season of innovative performances. 🔗 bit.ly/fisher-center-…

Our concert "Charles Ives' America" is now available for streaming on demand on TŌNtube through Jan 19. Recorded live at @fisherctrbard, the program explores the way Ives created unique works from familiar tunes. Stream now at ton.bard.edu/tontube/

With a sloping grass-covered roof, the spiral-shaped building will appear to emerge from the surrounding meadow, encircling a grassy courtyard for outdoor classes, gatherings, and performances. Learn more about the Performing Arts Lab at bit.ly/performing-art….

The Performing Arts Lab will serve as the home for Fisher Center LAB, as well as rehearsal and teaching facilities for students from @BardCollege’s undergraduate programs in Dance and Theater & Performance.

On Friday, December 6, we “topped out” the structure of our new Performing Arts Lab, designed by Maya Lin partnership with architects Bialosky and Partners and theater and acoustic consultants @Charcoalblue. The building is constructed by @Consigli1905. 🌲

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Sunday at the @metmuseum for the season opener of our Sight & Sound series, looking at Wagner's "Parsifal" and the Siena Cathedral. If you were able to be there, please let us know what you thought in the comments! 📸: David DeNee

TŌN presents a FREE holiday season concert this Sunday on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with NYC’s All-City High School Orchestra. Music by Tchaikovsky, Johann Strauss II, Borodin, and Holst. Advance RSVP requested. ton.bard.edu/events/nutcrac…

Our dance critics’ picks of the best performances of 2024 include once-in-a-generation ballerinas and a new “Cats” set in a ballroom, with voguing. nyti.ms/4io9y4p

The “invigorating and thrilling” ‘Or Forevermore’ by Pam Tanowitz, Fisher Center Choreographer in Residence, has been named the Best Dance of 2024 by @nytimesarts. 🩰

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s uproarious tale of racism; Amy Herzog’s heartbreaker about the death of the self in the love for one’s child; and Cole Escola’s madcap Mary Todd Lincoln fantasia: These plays are among this year’s most provocative works of theater. nyti.ms/4grbszq

🌲@IllinoiseStage, which premiered at 2023 Bard SummerScape, has been named the Best Theater of 2024 by @nytimesarts, for its engagements on Broadway and at Park Avenue Armory.

Theater critics Sara Holdren and Jackson McHenry select their favorite shows from 2024, from waterfront history staged afloat to Mary Todd Lincoln going wild. vulture.com/article/best-t…

🦋 @IllinoiseStage, which premiered at 2023 Bard SummerScape, has been named the Best Theater of 2024 by @vulture, for its engagements on Broadway and at Park Avenue Armory.