Night of 100 Solos: A Centenary Event. Performance view, Brooklyn Academy of Music, April 16, 2019.
"On April 16, One Hundred Years Ago, Merce Cunningham was born. On April 15, 2019, I was sitting in the balcony of the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House among the hundred or so people watching the final run-through of the 'Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event.' Can I say that I assisted at the memorial’s birth? Probably not. The program took even more risks than the patchworked material that his company used to perform worldwide as Events. Each of the seventy-five dancers celebrating his birthday (twenty-five in New York, and the same number in London and in Los Angeles) learned short passages culled from his pieces. In New York, these were taught by a bevy of former Cunningham company members and staged by two of them: Patricia Lent and her associate, Jean Freebury. Chance procedures, rather than choices, surely governed some of their decisions. Talk about a rainbow coalition. None of the people onstage had been members of Cunningham’s company, although many had taken classes in his technique or been influenced by his ideas. ..."
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