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Beacon Event, 2009. Performance at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. Choreography: Merce Cunningham. Photo: Anna Finke.
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Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) presents the seventh and final performances in a series at Dia:Beacon entitled Beacon Events. In residency for the last two years, Merce Cunningham has previously choreographed six signature, site-specific Events within the vast galleries of Dia:Beacon. May’s Events will be held within one of the two parallel galleries devoted to Imi Knoebel's 24 Colors—for Blinky, 1977, a monumental work recently restored and on view for the first time in the US. The dancers will perform on three large rectangular stages evenly spaced along one of the galleries. As with previous Events, viewers will be invited to walk around the galleries 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.
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| May Performances |
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 Saturday, May 16, 2009, 2pm and 4:30pm
$25 general tickets
$15 Dia members, Friends of MCDC, students and seniors.
Member price applicable to current members only. Members may purchase additional tickets
for guests at the general ticket price.
Includes museum admission.
Become a Dia member or renew your membership.
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| Related Programming |
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Cage and his Milieu: A Photo-Archive, May 14-25, 2009.
A presentation of archival photographs and snapshots of John Cage and his circle of friends has been assembled by The John Cage Trust, and will be on view at the Dia:Beacon Bookshop.
Family Day, Saturday, May 16, 2009, 12pm
Dia and MCDC educators present Family Day during which families are led on a movement-based tour of various artworks in the museum. Participants will create dance "Events" based on their own observations. Children age 6 and above are encouraged to attend and must be accompanied by an adult. This program is free with museum admission. Please note that performance tickets must be purchased separately. For reservations call 845 440 0100 x33.
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MCDC’s Hudson Valley Project, in partnership with Dia Art Foundation, Bard College, and The John Cage Trust at Bard College, has been made possible, in part, through major support from The New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropic Advisors. Additional support has been provided by Melissa and Robert Soros, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, and through public support from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. Supplemental gifts were made in honor of Anne d’Harnoncourt and by Victoria and S.I. Newhouse, and Carla Emil and Richard Silverstein.
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