Warner begins her tenure at the Park Avenue Armory with a vision to deepen interdisciplinary collaborations across theater, opera, dance and visual art. Photo by Stephanie Berger

The Park Avenue Armory is well-loved by the denizens of the art world. It’s the site of numerous art fairs and can’t-miss programming like Anne Imhof’s DOOM: House of Hope. Earlier this month, the esteemed institution named Deborah Warner as its new artistic director. Warner comes to the Armory from the U.K., where she has done award-winning work in theater, opera and experimental stagings. We caught up with her to hear about her plans for the Upper East Side.

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There is nowhere like the Armory in Europe, and is there anything to surpass it in the world? To be programming for this unique and remarkable space, building on the extraordinary work of the past two decades, is a dream. It is therefore an immense excitement and privilege to be in a position to approach artists across disciplines—musicians, actors, visual artists, dancers, singers, performance artists and more—with an invitation to create boundary-defying work that could not be staged anywhere else in the city.

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