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Event
Cage Centennial: Four6
Commemorating Cage's Centennial Year at thefidget space
At the moment of his centenary year, it is not difficult to claim that John Cage is among the most influential artists of the 20th century. Cage was a composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher, artist, and leading figure of the post-war avant-garde. Through his association with Merce Cunningham, Cage had a lasting impact on the development of contemporary dance; his effect on the visual arts is just beginning to be assessed. Above all, Cage articulated an experimental approach to art making and to life that favored: process over product, the unknown over the known, discovery over expression, and the production of new questions over old answers. As an arts organization dedicated to cross-disciplinary experimentation, <fidget> celebrates the spaces for thought and creation opened by John Cage's legacy.
<fidget> presents and invites you to Cage Centennial @ thefidget space. Cage's ideas, compositions, and questions are brought to the foreground in three separate performances on Friday: January 20th, February 17th, and March 16th at 8PM. Additional opportunities for discursive elaboration will occur in the form of lectures and symposia with dates forthcoming.
January's event focuses on Cage's last body of work, Number Pieces. Four6 is the selected compositional score that will manifest itself in performance on January 20th. Improvised several times by various quartets, each iteration sets the open score in relief.
The evening's musicians:
Gloria Justen - violin
Dan Blacksberg - trombone
Chris Mandra - guitar and electronics
Flandrew Fleisenberg - percussion
Peter Price - electronics.
<fidget> is a platform for the collaborative work of Megan Bridge (choreography) and Peter Price (time-based media). <fidget>'s dances are dark worlds populated by post-human, biological, machinic entities-- bodies, video, sound. Bridge and Price create awkward dystopias, referential and even appropriationist, grounded in the discourses of contemporary art, culture, and theory (we like experiments). They have been creating live performance works together since 2000. http://www.thefidget.org
Housed in a 19th century, 4700 square foot warehouse in Kensington, thefidget space opened its doors in June 2009. Through a presenting platform, an artist-in-residence program, and affordable rehearsal space for dance and theater groups, <fidget> and thefidget space work to promote experimental and interdisciplinary art making and discourse. With a focus on immediacy of audience experience (imagine lounging on a comfy couch, sipping on a glass of wine, and watching a performance unfold a few feet in front of you), thefidget space aims to challenge conceptual paradigms in the arts and humanities and deepen thinking about culture and the nature of human experience.
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Locationthefidget space (View)
1714 North Mascher St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
United States
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