Tuesday, July 14 at 8:30 pm at the Filene Center
Ticket Price: $38 in-house, $10 lawn
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
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Defying convention, these magnificent performers present the 1975 classic Sounddance and the gracefully complex Split Sides, set to music by Radiohead and Sigur Rós.

  • Set to the progressive music of Radiohead and Sigur Rós, this elite dance company presents Split Sides, a choreographic masterpiece with 32 possible variations of the dance—the one performed selected by chance on the day of the show.
  • “I felt like doing something vigorous, fast, complex,” said Cunningham, and the resulting piece was Sounddance, a modern, structurally-focused work of art that gives the impression of “a space observed under a microscope.”
  • After 70 years as one of the most innovative and contemporary visionaries of dance and choreography, Cunningham recently celebrated his 90th birthday with Nearly Ninety, a piece with which he solidifies his reputation as the “foremost representative of high modernism…in the history of modern dance” (The New Yorker).

 

 

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