Barclays Center "will host performances by artists selected by the Brooklyn Academy of Music in a programming alliance between the two neighboring institutions," according to Melena Ryzik of the N.Y. TIMES. The collaboration will include "three or four shows a year and allow the academy to bring to Brooklyn work that would not fit into its theaters -- the largest of which has 2,000 seats -- with costs underwritten by the arena." Brooklyn Academy of Music President Karen Brooks Hopkins said she expects the performances to be “on a very large scale, large nouvelle cirque kind of work, big dance kind of things, music.” The Nets are scheduled to open Barclays Center in September '12, and Brooks Hopkins said that "an academy work could appear there in the spring or summer of 2013." Ryzki notes the academy "will receive a curatorial fee but no share of ticket sales," and it "expects to present a slate of half a dozen potential shows a year for the arena." Asked if there is overlap between a Brooklyn Academy audience and the crowd for a Nets game, Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner "paused a bit before saying yes." He said, "People who grew up urban in Brooklyn, and in other places, you have people who have played basketball since they were zero, of all intellect and education" (N.Y. TIMES, 6/30).
