The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when....? . 2015
Choreography:
Yvonne Rainer
Choreographic
assistant: Pat Catterson
Performers: Pat
Catterson, Patricia Hoffbauer, Emmanuèle Phuon, Keith Sabado, David Thomson
Pianist: Vincent Izzo
Costume: Juanita Cardenas
Lighting: Les
Dickert
Performed at MoMA
June 2015
Pioneering
choreographer Yvonne Rainer presented the East Coast premiere of her ongoing
work-in-progress “The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there's nothing
left to move?” at MoMA in June 2015.
Interweaving
formal dance with personal themes of aging and mortality, humor, and diverse
texts—intermittently read by Rainer and the dancers, the performers in
"The Concept of Dust" have been given the freedom to initiate and/or
abort the movement phrases as they wish, making spontaneous decisions
throughout the 45-minute duration of the piece.
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