Photo by Stacey Mark
NOX, by Rashaun Mitchell in collaboration with Silas Riener
Choreographer Rashaun Mitchell and fellow Merce Cunningham Dance Company member Silas Riener experiment with resuscitation, distance, multidimensionality, and extraction in response to a new work of poetry by celebrated writer Anne Carson. Created after the death of her brother, Carson’s NOX describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens of her translation of Poem 101 by Catullus “for his brother who died in the Troad.”
ETHEL performs work by Terry Riley, John King, Phil Kline, and Julia Wolfe
Acclaimed as America’s premier postclassical string quartet, ETHEL boldly infuses contemporary concert music with fierce intensity, questioning the boundaries between performer and audience, tradition and technology. Called “vital and brilliant... an avatar of ‘post-classical’ music” by The New Yorker, ETHEL is comprised of Juilliard-trained performers Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Ralph Farris (viola), Dorothy Lawson (cello), and Mary Rowell (violin). Their self-titled ETHEL (Cantaloupe Music, 2003) was named one of Billboard’s “Best Albums”; and Light (Cantaloupe Music, 2006) was selected as #3 on Amazon.com’s “Best of 2006: Top Classical Editor’s Picks.”
Members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company perform an Event
Events are MCDC’s signature, site-specific choreographic collages that incorporate excerpts from past and current repertory works. They are often created for unconventional performance spaces such as museums and galleries. Events feature live music composed specifically for the occasion, and often include costumes and décor from previous repertory works. This Event will be performed by MCDC dancers Andrea Weber, Silas Riener, and Rashaun Mitchell with live music by ETHEL.