In several excerpts from interviews in the MwM Film Library, Merce both reminisces, and inspires anew! In addition, see marvelous rare film of Merce Cunningham teaching class in Chicago in 1961, and dynamic, never before seen footage of Merce teaching Advanced Technique Class almost 50 years later. MCDC dancers Jennifer Goggans, Andrea Weber, and Foofwa d’Imobillite look back on learning from Merce…
> Watch the video » The Cunningham Challenge: Doing the Impossible »
A new creation commissioned to Foofwa d’Imobilité, Au Contraire (an inspiration from the universe of Jean-Luc Godard), was premiered with success at the Festival d’Avignon (19-25 July 2010). Photos of the show are now on the site – see the Au Contraire page.
Au Contraire (after Jean-Luc Godard), a new creation commissioned to Foofwa d’Imobilité, will be presented from July 19-21 & 23-25 (18h) at the Festival d’Avignon.
> info & tickets at festival-avignon.com
See how the « Merce-Art Forever! » videos were installed at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam (8-11 June 2010).
(Photos/video of the installation with visitors and the complete videos are on the « Merce Art Forever! » page).
On May 29, 2010 the « Performance for 3 Avatars » was presented and filmed at the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne, Switzerland. The performance will be presented again in July at the Festival de la Cité in Lausanne.
Watch the video of « Performance for 3 Avatars » at Rolex:
Performance pour 3 avatars is the synthesis of three works: Media Vice Versa, a quartet made in 2002; BodyToys, a trio created in 2007; and Second Live Series, videos made from 2008 to 2010. These three dances are all connected to the studies of the digital body and the questions surrounding the real and the virtual. With one dancer representing each piece, it’s like a strange conversation between three avatars, adaptable to a context (at the Rolex Learning Center of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on May 29 2010, and at the Festival de la Cité in Lausanne on July 6, 7 and 8 2010)
New video excerpts have been added for the following Live Productions:
LaréduQ – Chore – The Making of Spectacles
BodyToys – Benjamin de Bouillis