Lucinda Childs: Dance

DANCE
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 24, 2021
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY

The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan

$10-$71
https://www.joyce.org/performances/lucinda-childs-dance

The premiere of this piece — dance by Childs to music by Glass with decor by LeWitt — at BAM in 1979 was a big deal (Glass was still an underground figure then, remember): this was where Minimalism went BIG. Now this Minimalist masterpiece still packs a punch, but in a different way: in the initial production, the dancers danced along with a film of themselves dancing. Now, the dancers dance along with that same film of their 1979 predecessors. The differences in style and physique over those years is striking and, especially for those of us who knew the original dancers, the effect is poignant. But even if — maybe especially if — you've never seen this piece and perhaps are even unfamiliar with the Minimalist idiom, you really ought to see this.

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