Dance Program Presents
Celebrating Merce Cunningham
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Learn Cunningham's Field Dances
NO DANCE TRAINING REQUIRED!SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
1-2:30pm Campus Center Lawn*
Field Dances (1963) is an indeterminate dance. It can be performed anywhere for any period of time by any number of people. Working from Merce Cunningham's notes, we will create a field of activity and dance to live music.
Field Dances is offered courtesy of the Merce Cunningham Trust.
3-4:30pm Weis Cinema in the Campus Center
WATCH a special screening of two Cunningham masterworks and speak with dancers about their experience working with Mr. Cunningham.
Events sponsored by the Bard College Dance Program in partnership with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
* Rainy day location for Field Dances: Thorne Dance Studio, Fisher Center
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
MELISSA TOOGOOD joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 2008 and was on the highly acclaimed 'Legacy Tour'. She is a faculty member at the Merce Cunningham Studio, Dance New Amsterdam and is currently teaching at Bard.
CORI KRESGE is a NYC based dance artist. She was a member of the Merce Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group and part of the Cunningham teaching faculty, creating new classes in Cunningham technique for children and teens.
For more information, call 845-758-7957, or e-mail [email protected].