The Cunningham Dance Foundation

& the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater

Cordially invite you to an historic evening with the

Merce Cunningham Dance Company

and guest artist

Mikhail Baryshnikov

 

Occasion Piece²

Music by John Cage from Song Books,

performed by Paul Berkolds, Jacqueline Bobak, and Mark Bobak

Costumes by Romeo Gigli for io ipso idem

Lighting by Christine Shallenberg

With Merce

A special screening of a film by Charles Atlas

 

June 7, 2010

6 pm cocktails

7:30 Performance

Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT)

631 West 2nd Street

Los Angeles, California

9 pm Dinner with the Artists

Click here to download a ticket order form. Attendance at this intimate benefit is extremely limited; please r.s.v.p. by May 24.

Proceeds from the evening will jointly benefit the Cunningham Dance Foundation (CDF) and the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT).

This historic evening at REDCAT concludes the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's final appearance in Los Angeles, following public performances of the premiere of the revival of Roaratorio (1983), featured as part of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center on June 4, 5 and 6 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

For more information, contact Tambra Dillon, Director of Institutional Advancement, at (212) 255-8240 x25 or tambra@merce.org.

Merce Cunningham and Mikhail Baryshnikov in Occasion Piece (1999), Photo by Robert Whitman.