The 2021 season marks the beginning of "Common Ground", a three-year initiative that will unveil six new pieces that tell stories of life in America.
The initiative begins this summer with "On Trac |<", a dance piece composed by Nicolas Lell Benavides and choreographed and performed by Amanda Castro, that looks at the intersection of human and machine in rural America, the release said. This summer, the festival will also begin creating a film version of "The Knock", a world-premiere one-act opera by Aleksandra Vrebalov and Deborah Brevoort that tells a moving story centered on a group of military wives awaiting news of their deployed husbands.
“These commissions will showcase the diversity of the American experience through a variety of creative voices and approaches to storytelling,” Zambello said.