In March 2020, just as the pandemic hit, Works & Process invited Jamar Roberts, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s first resident choreographer, to create a Works & Process Artists (WPA) Virtual Commission. Roberts created Cooped, with music by David Watson, which was described by The New York Times as “one of the most powerful artistic responses yet to the COVID-19 crisis.” As the pandemic wore on, Works & Process commissioned and supported Roberts with two bubble residencies—at Petronio Residency Center in August 2020 and at Catskill Mountain Foundation in January 2021—during which Roberts created A Chronicle of a Pivot at a Point in Time with dancers Patrick Coker, Ghrai DeVore-Stokes, Jacquelin Harris, Courtney Celeste Spears, and Brandon Michael Woolridge, with commissioned music by Watson.

In January 2021, a digital highlight was produced of a rare indoor video performance commissioned by Works & Process at the Guggenheim, and coproduced by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The short solo “A Sketch from A Chronicle of a Pivot at a Point in Time,” co-commissioned by the Asbury Park Dance Festival, premiered in fall 2021. On March 20 and 21, 2022, the complete work will have its long-awaited world premiere in the Peter B. Lewis Theater at the Guggenheim.

A Chronicle of a Pivot at a Point in Time is commissioned by Works & Process at the Guggenheim and has been supported by Works & Process bubble residencies at Catskill Mountain Foundation and Petronio Residency Center. Co-commissioning for “A Sketch from A Chronicle of a Pivot at a Point in Time” was provided by the Asbury Park Dance Festival. Music commission supported by The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation. Additional support from The O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation. Works & Process bubble residencies were made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.