In \u201cMaking Dances\u201d, the Dance On Ensemble invites contemporary artists \u2013 Tim Etchells, and Mathilde Monnier\u2013 to respond in their own artistic languages to iconic works of modern and postmodern dance by Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. \u00a0In these performance works the artists reflect on classical but radical works that challenged the rules of their time.<\/p>\n
Starting with Martha Graham\u2019s \u201cDeep Song\u201d (1937) performed by long term Graham soloist and Dance On Ensemble member Miki Orihara. Danced within a neon text installation created by artist and performance maker Tim Etchells in response to Graham\u2019s seminal work.\u00a0\u00a0Merce Cunningham\u2019s radically experimental \u201cStory\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(1963) re-imagined by the Dance On Ensemble.\u00a0 Followed by the choreography of Mathilde Monnier, \u201cnever ending (Story)<\/a>\u201d who reacts to Cunningham\u2019s \u201cStory\u201d, using the poetry by David Antin, a contemporary of Cunningham\/Cage, as a starting point.<\/p>\n In presenting these works a connection is opened\u00a0between dance heritage and contemporary dance creation as well as between artists of different generations and backgrounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In \u201cMaking Dances\u201d, the Dance On Ensemble invites contemporary artists \u2013 Tim Etchells, and Mathilde Monnier\u2013 to respond in their own artistic languages to iconic works of modern and postmodern dance by Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. \u00a0In these performance works the artists reflect on classical but radical works that challenged the rules of their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"content-produktionen.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-productions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}