NEW YORK.- The 2007 spring season features a diverse array of dance, music, opera, moving image, and scientific and current affairs lectures. Highlights include three programs exploring the relationship between the moving image and the performing arts, works by Bill Viola for the opera Tristan und Isolde, and collaborations between Isaac Julien and choreographer Russell Malphant and David Michalek with dancer Wendy Whelan. Opera offerings include a world premiere of Romulus by Louis Karchin and an American premiere of Castor et Pollux, a French baroque chamber opera by Jane-Philippe Rameau. In dance, the Cincinatti Ballet with choreographer Luca Veggetti makes its New York premiere, Seán Curran performs excerpts of a new work, and dance company Pilobolus and Israeli choreographer Inbal Pinto collaborate on a new piece. Lord Patten, the former Governor of Hong Kong and current Chancellor of Oxford University will lecture on whether China’s ascent is unstoppable and from Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, Professor Freeman Dyson lectures on how we could have gone to Mars.

In Works & Process’s ongoing relationship with American Ballet Theatre, the restaging of The Sleeping Beauty is discussed by Gelsey Kirkland and Kevin McKenzie and Lar Lubovitch participates in A Shakepeare Festival where excerpts from The Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Othello are performed.

These programs continue the Works & Process tradition of presenting unique programs that combine performance, lively discussion, and behind-the-scenes access to some of today’s leading performing artists, choreographers, composers, writers, and directors. Each program is followed by a reception with the artists in the museum’s spectacular Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda.

Works & Process at the Guggenheim is produced by Mary Sharp Cronson who founded the series in 1984 to offer audiences behind-the-scenes access to some of the world’s most exciting performing artists, choreographers, composers, writers, and directors. In over three hundred productions and now in its twenty-third season, Works & Process at the Guggenheim continues to collaborate with leading cultural institutions.

Past programs have included previews of major operatic and theatrical pieces, such as John Adams’s Nixon in China, Peter Brook’s Mahabharata, Robert Wilson’s Prometheus; and Charles Wuorinen’s The Great Procession. Poet Paul Auster, String Theorist Brian Greene, playwright Tony Kushner, writer Salman Rushdie, composer Stephen Sondheim, actor Patrick Stewart, choreographer Twyla Tharp, and Nobel Prize–winning poet Derek Walcott are just a few of the individuals who have presented their work.

All programs are presented in the Peter B. Lewis Theater of the Sackler Center for Arts Education at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street. Unless otherwise noted, tickets are $24 for the general public, $20 for Guggenheim members and senior citizens, and $15 for students. For further information and to order tickets by phone, the public may call (212) 423-3587, Monday through Friday, 1–5 PM. For further information on Works & Process at the Guggenheim, visit www.worksandprocess.org.