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Schedule of Performances View Full Schedule | JUNE | JULY | AUGUST | SEPTEMBER Saturday, July 25th, 2009 - 6pm At the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center, Oak Bluffs A pioneer of the postmodern dance movement, Lucinda Childs is best known today for her collaborations with visual artists, composers, directors, and designers such as John Adams, Frank Gehry, Philip Glass, Sol LeWitt, Peter Sellars, and Robert Wilson. Dance, created in 1979, the year Childs was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, comprises three dances performed together without intermission. Philip Glass’s music is the soundtrack of Sol LeWitt’s black-and-white film, which is projected on a scrim in front of the stage. “Together,” wrote Jennifer Dunning in the New York Times, “the elements of live theater and film create the kind of instantaneous layering of time that is usually the magical province of film alone.” With a Site Stroll featuring community dancers performing works by Yard favorites Naomi Goldberg Haas, Lorraine Chapman and Evan Hall. Dance is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts: American Masterpieces: Dance Initiative, administered by New England Foundation for the Arts and presented in partnership with the Fisher Center for the Arts at Bard College Tickets: Sunday Gala - 6 PM
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DANCE
by Lucinda Childs