![]() For the original production, Robert Morris designed the set, Jasper Johns designed the costumes, and Pauline Oliveros composed the music. Using chance operations to determine the sequence of movements, Cunningham assigned a word indicating a particular movement to each card in the deck, with red and black suits denoting fast and slow movements, respectively. The MinEvent will be arranged and staged in the Williams Forum by Patricia Lent expressly for the PHILADANCO! dancers.Ĭanfield (1969): The dance’s title refers to a game of solitaire. PHILADANCO! dancers will perform an arrangement of choreographic material drawn from four Cunningham/Johns collaborations: Canfield (1969), Landrover (1972), Un jour ou deux (1973), and Exchange (1978). Williams Forum, Philadelphia Museum of Artĭuration 20 minutes Free after museum admission (no reservation required) I like to find ways to incorporate these moments into the design of the dance-little glimpses of humanity within the abstractness of the choreography.” Material happens out of necessity and sometimes by mistake. The museum creates the frame for the dance to live and Jasper Johns’s art is the inspiration…The dance usually tells me what it wants to be. It is befitting and historic that this is now added to our roster of shared collaborations, which merges two Philadelphia treasures together to celebrate the amazing artistry of Jasper Johns presented through the art of dance.”Ĭhoreographer Pam Tanowitz, said of her commissioned work, “ Finally Unfinished is a dance always in process, a dance inventing itself as it goes. At this time PHILADANCO! is celebrating 51 years of existence and the many partnerships we have had throughout the decades. Kim Bears-Bailey, Artistic Director of The Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO!), said, “It is an honor for PHILADANCO! to perform works by the modern icon Merce Cunningham. The brilliant Pam Tanowitz joins that conversation with an extraordinary new solo for Melissa Toogood, one of the most talented dancers of her generation.” It is especially fitting to be able to present PHILADANCO! performing his work for the first time in an event staged by Patricia Lent with material from a selection of dances first choreographed by Cunningham while Johns was Artistic Advisor. Many of the compositional strategies of Johns’s work find echoes in the beautifully complex dances of Cunningham. His friendship and admiration for Cunningham was long lasting and profoundly inspiring for them both. ![]() and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, said “Jasper Johns worked as the Artistic Advisor of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for over a decade. Commissioned by the museum and performed by Melissa Toogood, formerly a dancer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, this work opens on the museum’s first floor near Lenfest Hall and continues down the cantilevered staircase in the Williams Forum, in a powerful choreography that playfully evokes Walkaround Time, the dance that Cunningham created in 1968 as an homage to Marcel Duchamp, with a set by Johns.Ĭarlos Basualdo, the Keith L. January 21–23, world-renowned choreographer Pam Tanowitz will present Finally Unfinished (Solo for Melissa for Jasper). Philadanco MinEvent will be performed with live music by John King and Leyya Mona Tawil. PHILADANCO! dancers will perform in newly constructed costumes fashioned after an original design by Johns. January 14–16, the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO!) will perform Philadanco MinEvent, comprising excerpts from dances choreographed by Merce Cunningham and originally designed by Jasper Johns during his tenure as the artistic advisor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1967–80). These performances will be free after museum admission and will be seen in Philadelphia only. These programs will offer immersive engagement through freshly reinterpreted choreographies closely associated with Johns’s history and through a new work created in honor of the artist that will be presented to the public for the first time. PHILADELPHIA, PA-In January, as the landmark retrospective Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror enters its final weeks, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present two weekends of performances that underscore the artist’s deep and abiding artistic connections to dance.
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