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Juilliard’s Center for Creative Technology Presents Future Stages Festival
Juilliard’s Center for Creative Technology Presents Future Stages Festival
Cross-Disciplinary Programs Feature New Works and Live Multimedia Performances
[NEW YORK, February 26, 2026]––Juilliard’s Center for Creative Technology (CCT) hosts the second annual Future Stages Festival from March 18 to 27. The series features groundbreaking works across creative disciplines, as students and alumni harness technological advancements in their performances. The CCT at Juilliard has stood at the forefront of technological experimentation in the arts for 26 years, offering music, dance, and drama students opportunities to engage with new tools. Over three nights of immersive performances, this expansive vision comes to life in the Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater.
“The Center for Creative Technology enables creativity to move freely among classical and jazz musicians, dancers, actors, and digital performance artists. In our studios, individual artistic voices converge in a shared act of creative exploration and discovery,” said CCT director Edward Bilous. The “Future Stages Festival is more than a coming together of artists from Juilliard’s three divisions on one stage. It is a transdisciplinary experience that seamlessly integrates diverse modalities and forms of expression.”
On March 18, the Future Stages Festival begins with Auras and Emanations, a program of original compositions by CCT students. Luke Baron (Pre-College ’24, composition), KiMani Bridges, Anton Kot, Alex Leonardi (Pre-College ’20, organ), Yuxuan Lin (BM ’25, composition), Kian Ravaei, and Emre Sener create works informed by classical, jazz, and new music backgrounds. Their compositions were mixed in the school’s new Visual Media Scoring Studio and will be presented in the Willson Theater using a state-of-the-art immersive audio system. Directed by Maggie Scrantom (Drama, Group 52), the program includes dramatic works by Bridges performed by solo soprano Britt Hewett (BM ’20, voice), who will simultaneously interact with prerecorded vocal tracks in real time. Valentina Paolucci (MM ’25, conducting) conducts an audio-video installation by Yuxuan Lin, sculpting visual projections designed by the composer in response to music.
On March 26 and 27, the festival continues with Meshworks. Since 1997, the annual InterArts program provides an opportunity for students and alumni from the Music, Dance, and Drama divisions to create an original work utilizing novel technologies. The program features a multimedia adaptation of George Crumb’s Black Angels for electric string quartet, with a dance-video performance by choreographer Moscelyne ParkeHarrison (BFA ’19, dance) and Eleni Loving (BFA ’22, dance). Then Ziyi Tao (BM ’25, composition) presents the world premiere of “There is an image by Paul Klee,” or Recursivity and Simultaneity for electric string quartet, responding to Crumb’s eerie, arresting work more than 50 years after its debut. The composition employs both Crumb’s extended techniques and emerging AI sound transformation technology, reinterpreting the daring work in the present day.
Meshworks concludes with Sum of the Parts, created and performed by Juilliard’s first fully electric ensemble of composers, digital music performers, dancers, and?video?performing artists creating different interpretations of the same musical material in real time. Composers studying at the CCT created a series of variations from a musical aggregate and rhythmic cells, which a quartet of digital musicians will edit and sample throughout the performance. Using the same musical source material, a group of dancers developed a series of dance phrases, recording the movements with video and motion capture technology. The dancers will edit, loop, and process the videos and data on stage, participating as video performing artists. The composite audio and video material produced during the performance will serve as the basis for a second-level iteration next year and will be continually reshaped in further editions of the Future Stages Festival.
“Future Stages programs are designed around a path of inquiry that travels across disciplines and between aesthetic sensibility and critical thinking,” said Bilous, who conceived the series. “We encourage our students to think more expansively about their disciplines and imagine new ways they can participate in an increasingly integrated arts ecosystem.”
Program Details
Future Stages Festival | Auras and Emanations
Wednesday, March 18 | 7:30pm
Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater, 155 W. 65th St., New York, NY 10023
Tickets $20
Emre Sener ∝
Yuxuan Lin Laminations
KiMani Bridges Discoverer
Alex Leonardi canker sore
Luke Baron Dust
Kian Ravaei iPod Variations
Anton Kot-Burke Four Hands, One Kit
Future Stages Festival | Meshworks
Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater, 155 W. 65th St., New York, NY 10023
Tickets $20
Dylan Hamme Ballerina
George Crumb (1929–2022) Black Angels (1970)
Ziyi Tao “There is an image by Paul Klee,” or Recursivity and Simultaneity
Co-creators (Edward Bilous and students*) Sum of the Parts
* including Christopher Armstrong, KiMani Bridges, Elliott Blanchard, Dylan Hamme, Anton Kot, Emily Liushen, Kian Ravaei, William Schwartzman
About the Center for Creative Technology
About The Juilliard School
Founded in 1905, The Juilliard School is a world leader in performing arts education. The school’s mission is to is to cultivate excellence through the highest caliber of education in music, dance, and drama for gifted students from around the world, so they may achieve their fullest potential, expanding the reach and elevating the impact of the arts. Juilliard is led by Damian Woetzel, seventh president of the school, who has prioritized affordability and access to the highest level of artistic education while championing Juilliard’s tradition of excellence.
Located at Lincoln Center in New York City, Juilliard offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in dance, drama (acting and playwriting), and music (classical, jazz, historical performance, and vocal arts). More than 800 artists from 42 states and 50 countries and regions are enrolled in Juilliard’s College Division, where they appear in more than 800 annual performances in the school’s five theaters; at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully and David Geffen halls and at Carnegie Hall; as well as at other venues around New York City, the U.S., and the world. The continuum of learning at Juilliard also includes nearly 400 students from elementary through high school enrolled in the Preparatory Division—Pre-College and Music Advancement Program (MAP); MAP serves students from diverse backgrounds often underrepresented in the classical music field. More than 1,200 students are enrolled in Juilliard Extension, the flagship continuing education program taught both in person and remotely by a dedicated faculty of performers, creators, and scholars. Beyond its New York campus, Juilliard is defining new directions in performing arts education for a range of learners and enthusiasts through a global K–12 educational curricula and preparatory and graduate studies at The Tianjin Juilliard School in China.
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