Friday, May 21, 2010

MERCE AND MIKHAIL

Friends of Decades,
You will want to attend this!

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
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.