The summer has gotten off to a busy start with a variety of stagings, performances, workshops, and classes.
The first week of June, more than twenty dancers participated in a one-week workshop devoted to solos choreographed for Carolyn Brown. Several stagers contributed to this unique workshop: Holley Farmer (1997-2009), Jean Freebury (MCDC 1992-2003), Jennifer Goggans (2000-2011), Jamie Scott (MCDC 2009-2011), and Andrea Weber (MCDC 2004-2011). That same week, Jean Freebury staged a suite of solos & duets from Interscape (2000) for Gary Champi and Eleanor Hullihan, and Holley Farmer taught a duet from Split Sides (2003) for dancers from A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham.
The following week, at the American Dance Festival, the Trisha Brown Dance Company, in partnership with the Merce Cunningham Trust, gave their first performance of
Travelogue (1977) on a program celebrating Rauschenberg’s centennial (New York Times article), and Brandon Collwes (MCDC 2006-2011) began teaching technique and repertory for ADF’s Summer Dance Intensive.
Next came “In Conversation with Merce: New Arrangements,” a program at Baryshnikov Arts Center presenting four works – one on film and three live (Dance Enthusiast review). The week concluded with the filming of one of these works, Suite for Two (1958), in BAC’s John Cage & Merce Cunningham Studio. Filmed by Alex Munro and his team, Suite for Two is danced by Jacquelin Harris and Chalvar Monteiro with Adam Tendler playing John Cage’s Music for Piano (4-19).
There is much more news which you can read here.
|