Dance: San Francisco Performances Presents a Revival of Lucinda Childs' Landmark Work
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Novellus Theater (700 Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94103)
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The last date listed for Lucinda Childs' Dance was Friday April 29, 2011 / 8:00pm.
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6 Goldstar Member Reviews
Rico Ocampo
a noble
It was tedious and disorientating. Beautiful individual dancing, without interplay with other dancers. Precision dancing. Wished we'd never gone.Written on May 02 2011
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li
one of the most intriguing and inspiring art pieces i have ever seen.Written on May 02 2011
it was a unique, and essentially a spiritual experience.
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tki
Dance work from the late 70's, but still hugely influential. It did seem somewhat dated and the projections gave you a sense of the original work and the rapid movement of dancers. It became more academic than pleasurable, but still recommended.Written on May 23 2011
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More Information About Lucinda Childs' Dance
Website
http://sfperformances.org/performances/1011/LucindaChildsDance.html
Quotes & Highlights
- "...a genuine breakthrough, defining for us new modes of perception and feeling and clearly belonging as much to the future as to the present." --The Washington Post
- "Dance is a vision of how we would all move in dance paradise." --The New York Times
- See a short preview video of the performance.
Description
San Francisco Performances presents Dance, a revival of the landmark work by dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass and Sol LeWitt at Novellus Theater, YBCA.
Three dances, performed by the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, are set to a stunning soundtrack by Glass, performed alternately by the Philip Glass Ensemble and electric organ, against a backdrop of LeWitt’s 1979 black-and-white film.
LeWitt filmed passages of choreography from each of the dances, which are projected on a transparent scrim downstage from the dancers and perfectly synchronized with the live movement. Through shifts in the camera angle and changes in scale—panning from close-ups to long shots—the film transposes and manipulates the audience’s view.
As the lighting and film change—creating double sets of dancers or freezing moments of the piece—the abstract choreography works as the visual counterpoint to the music. The work melds three dance movements, each about 20 minutes long. The first and third are set to Glass’s music recorded by the Ensemble, the second to music recorded by Glass and Michael Riesman on the electric organ.
Childs, whose “conceptual dance” pushed her to the forefront of important American choreographers, formed her own company in 1973 after training in Merce Cunningham’s studio and dancing as one of the original members of the Judson Dance Theater company. She collaborated with Glass on his 1976 opera with Robert Wilson Einstein on the Beach, during which they came up with the idea for Dance.
About the Ticket Supplier: San Francisco Performances
Founded in 1979, San Francisco Performances is the Bay Area's leading independent presenter of chamber music, vocal and instrumental recitals, jazz and contemporary dance. Under the artistic direction of its founder, Ruth Felt, the organization presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities that also strengthen the local performing arts community.