The Arts Center at NYUAD has introduced an annual membership programme, which gives advance booking and discount deals on a year’s performances. Given the quality of the Arts Center’s programming and the inevitably frequent sellouts, this looks like a pretty good deal.
The base level is called Supporting Membership and costs AED 350 plus VAT. This gives you advance booking and a 25% discount on a ticket for one performance of every production in the year; you also get one completely free ticket to a performance of your choice. Extras include a dedicated members’ entrance line plus a limited edition water bottle and a tote bag branded for The Arts Center.
We reckon you would make on the deal if you see around a dozen standard-price shows a year. There’s a family-and-friends option too – up to four additional adults can be included for AED 250 each, young folks (aged 21 and below, up to six of them) are AED 175 each. Obviously they’ll get the same benefits as the individual member.
There’s also an all-you-can-eat VIP Membership at AED 1200. This buys you one complimentary ticket to every production during the year plus the 25% discount, earliest ticket booking (even before Supporting members), exclusive invitations to events and artists’ meet-and-greets, and a copy of The Arts Center’s excellent box set book The Arts Center: Building a Performing Arts Community on Saadiyat Island, signed personally by Bill Bragin (sure to become a collector’s item). And the water bottle and tote bag, of course.
The new Arts Center season is due to be announced in about a month, but it opens (5 and 6 September) with a spectacular new show from the returning Compagnie Hervé Koubi called Sol Invictus (above and, dramatically, below). When this show premiered in New York earlier this year the NYT called it “thrilling … amazing … the dancers’ extraordinary moves are integrated into a poetic vision … the distinctive aesthetic achievement of this company is to make those extraordinary acrobatics and hip-hop power moves feel at times pedestrian, almost like walking”. This is a great opener, one show that will surely sell out and should certainly justify early access to tickets …
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