Pharrell Williams-scored performance gets previewed at the Guggenheim

Yesterday the Guggenheim announced its fall “Works & Process” program of interdisciplinary performances mounted in the Gugg’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed theater, and guess who’s part of the line-up? America’s favorite Smokey-The-Bear hat model, Pharrell Williams. Williams himself won’t actually be there, but he is the composer of the score for “Rules Of The Game,” a dance performance by Jonah Bokaer and Daniel Ashram. On October 31, the museum will host a discussion on the work in advance of its November premiere as part of BAM’s New Wave festival. The evening includes a preview of select scenes with Williams’s music.

“Rules Of The Game” isn’t Williams’s first art-world rodeo. He’s collaborated with Japanese art superstar Takashi Murakami on a music video, and designed high-end furniture that was shown at a Paris gallery. (In including a chair with a seat supported by the legs of a man and a woman having doggy-style sex. Racy.)

“Works & Process” itself kicks of September 12 with Breaking the Waves, a chamber opera by composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek based on the 1996 Lars von Trier film of the same name.