ONCE IN A LIFETIME

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

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
Costumes were designed by Romeo Gigli.
Hosts: Marisa Tomei and Sutton & Christian Stracke

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

They still have tickets left for the 2 options.
$350 for cocktails, film screening, & the performance
$1,000 includes the above plus an intimate dinner for about 100 including the man himself, Mikhail Barishnikov & the dance company.
Proceeds from the evening will jointly benefit the Cunningham Dance Foundation (CDF) and the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT).

Attendance at this intimate benefit is extremely limited. MORE INFO

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).

Two of the most recognizable names in dance–Mikhail Baryshnikov and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company–headline a show on June 7 to benefit REDCAT and the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, which works to preserve the legacy of the iconoclastic choreographer, who died at 90 last year.

The evening at REDCAT marks the Dance Company’s final appearance in Los Angeles, following public performances (June 4-6) of the premiere revival of Roaratorio (1983), featured as part of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center series.

Baryshnikov, the noted Russian ballet dancer who defected to Canada in 1974, has had a long and storied history in dance with Cunningham.