Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Suite for Five / Quartet / XOVER

Archive 2011
Dance
1/2

Suite for Five (1956-1958)
Choreography, Merce Cunningham
Music, John Cage, Music for Piano
Costumes, Robert Rauschenberg
Lighting, Beverly Emmons
With 5 dancers
First performance: University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, May 18, 1956; revised version, Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, IN, July 1, 1958.
Restaged by Carolyn Brown, Merce Cunningham, Robert Swinston (2002).
Music for Piano by John Cage. Published by Henmar Press Inc. Used by kind permission of C.F. Peters Corporation.


Quartet (1982)
Choreography, Merce Cunningham
Music, David Tudor, Sextet for Seven
Décor and Costumes, Mark Lancaster
With 5 dancers
First Performance: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, France. 27 October 1982.
Restaged by Carol Teitelbaum with the assistance of Andrea Weber (2011).
Sound Design by Jesse Stiles (2011).
The revival of Quartet is a commission of Théâtre de la Ville/Festival d’Automne à Paris.


XOVER (2007)
Choreography, Merce Cunningham
Music, John Cage, Aria, Fontana Mix
Décor and Costumes, Robert Rauschenberg
Lighting, Josh Johnson
With 13 dancers
First Performance: Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. 5 October, 2007.
XOVER is a co-commission of barbicanbite08, London and the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. XOVER was made possible through public support by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company's dancers for the homage tour : Brandon Collwes, Dylan Crossman, Emma Desjardins, Jennifer Goggans, John Hinrichs, Daniel Madoff, Rashaun Mitchell, Marcie Munnerlyn, Krista Nelson, Silas Riener, Jamie Scott, Robert Swinston, Melissa Toogood, Andrea Weber

Coproduction Théâtre de la Ville-Paris ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
Partnership with France Inter

In its third year, the tribute paid to Merce Cunningham by his dance company offers the Festival d’Automne’s audience one last chance to explore the choreographer’s revolutionary journey through the 20th century - from Suite for Five (1956-1958) to XOVER (2007), which marked his reunion with John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg.

In the same place

Théâtre de la Ville – Sarah Bernhardt
septembersept 13 – 22

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga / Rosas, A7LA5
Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione

Dance

In collaboration with the choreographer and dancer Radouan Mriziga, the challenge taken up by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is to make Vivaldi's Four Seasons heard, using the tools of dance to hone the way we listen to this baroque masterpiece. Under the auspices of abstraction, the resulting alliance reconnects with the imaginary ecological world that is conjured up by this famous concerto.

Théâtre de la Ville – Sarah Bernhardt
septembersept 23 – 28

Rabih Mroué
Who’s Afraid of Representation?

Theatre Portrait

We find ourselves in the company of major figures of European Body Art (Joseph Beuys, Orlan, Marina Abramović, to name a few) via their accounts of exhibitions and public scarifications dating back to the 1970s. In parallel with this runs the true story of a killing spree carried out by a Lebanese office at his workplace, and the fluctuating motivations for his acts.

Théâtre de la Ville – Sarah Bernhardt
octoberoct 3 – 5
Maison des Arts de Créteil
novembernov 6 – 7

Lola Arias
Los días afuera

Theatre
Buy tickets

At the crossroads between musical and documentary, Lola Arias brings us a choral composition in which six female former inmates talk about their lives during and after incarceration. Their six intertwining destinies raise questions about the various forms of violence present in contemporary society, whilst exploring the margins of fiction and reality at the same time.

Théâtre de la Ville – Sarah Bernhardt
novembernov 5 – 16

Robert Wilson
PESSOA – Since I've been me

Theatre
Buy tickets

The hero of this new work by Robert Wilson is Fernando Pessoa. And a paradoxical hero at that. The Portuguese poet spent his life 'multiplying himself', inventing heteronyms, or fictitious authors, to whom he attributed works he himself wrote. He even went as far as to invent relationships, either amicable ones or from master to disciple, between his different avatars.

Théâtre de la Ville – Sarah Bernhardt
novembernov 19 – 23

Jan Martens
VOICE NOISE

Dance
Buy tickets

In this breakthrough piece for Jan Martens, VOICE NOISE brings together six dancers to shape a soundscape comprising some of the great female performers and composers of our time. In his own pop-inspired and precise way, the choreographer questions a very contemporary story, and in doing so raises the question of how some of these voices were silenced.