A stunning 16-millimeter, feature-length film showing Merce Cunningham and his company rehearsing an Event in the craneway of an abandoned Ford Motor factory in Northern California, marking the second collaboration between Cunningham and Dean and the last appearance made by this legendary choreographer on film.
Born in Canterbury, England, in 1965, Berlin-based artist
Tacita Dean studied at Falmouth School of Art (1985-88), the Supreme School of Fine Art (1989-90), and the Slade School of Fine Art (1990-92). Trained as a painter, Dean now works in a variety of media, but is best known for her compelling 16-millimeter films, in which the specific qualities associated with filmmaking are of central importance. Her work occupies a place between fact and fiction; it is pervaded by a sense of elusiveness, a search for something that exists as much in the imagination as anywhere else. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at the Solomon R. GuggenheimMuseum, New York (Hugo Boss Prize Exhibition, 2007); Schaulager, Munchenstein/Basel, Switzerland(2006); and the National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway (2006).
A Performa Premiere co-presented by Performa and Danspace Project. Supported by Marian Goodman Gallery.
Nov. 5 at 8:30pm
Nov. 6 at 6 + 8:30pm
Nov. 7 at 6 + 8:30pm
Tickets: $10 / $8 Performa Members and Danspace Project Members
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