Merce Cunningham Dance Company presents the fifth in a series of eight signature, site-specific performances at Dia:Beacon titled Beacon Events. December’s Beacon Events will directly engage the work of John Chamberlain and an “L” shaped stage will be installed adjacent to his twisted steel sculpture The Privet, 1997. As with previous Events, viewers will be invited to walk around the gallery to experience Cunningham’s performance from different vantage points. The performances will be accompanied by an original live score developed specifically for the Event, and will be the only times the musicians and dancers come together in this setting.
Merce Cunningham presented his first New York solo concert with composer John Cage in April 1944. He established the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Black Mountain College, in North Carolina in 1953, and has since choreographed nearly 200 works for MCDC. Many of these were created in collaboration with visual artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, and Andy Warhol.
Situated on the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, New York , and easily accessible by train or car, the museum occupies a former Nabisco box-printing facility, which was renovated by Dia with artist Robert Irwin and architect OpenOffice. Dia:Beacon’s expansive galleries comprise 240,000 square feet of exhibition space illuminated by natural light.
Dia Art Foundation celebrates the fifth anniversary of Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries in 2008. Dia:Beacon presents Dia Art Foundation’s collection of art from the 1960s to the present, including Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, John Chamberlain, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Michael Heizer, Robert Irwin, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Imi Knoebel, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Blinky Palermo, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Andy Warhol, and Lawrence Weiner.
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Please click here for Culturekiosque dance editor Patricia Boccadoro's review of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Detailed schedule information:
2:00 pm
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