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| Tuesday 4–Thursday 6 November
20.00 and 21.30
Europe’s leading contemporary dance festival, Dance Umbrella brings a living legend and major innovator of modern dance, Merce Cunningham, with his glorious company of 15 dancers, to the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern for a special week of Anniversary Events. In a unique commission, celebrating both the silver anniversary of Dance Umbrella and the golden anniversary of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Anniversary Events continues Cunningham’s Events series, developing performances for non-traditional public spaces. Cunningham uses the principles of ‘chance’ to choreograph movements for a specific space, drawing on both past choreography as well as new works. These promenade performances create a singular opportunity for the dancers to move in, around, and through The Weather Project, Icelandic/Danish artist Olafur Eliasson’s new commission for The Unilever Series at Tate Modern. Meanwhile, the audience becomes part of the landscape. Eliasson is known for his elemental installations and sculptures using light, steam, water, fire, wind and ice. Music elements will be performed and directed by Takehisa Kosugi and two additional contemporary composers/musicians and integrated into the performance at the site. Costumes are by James Hall with lighting by Josh Johnson. Merce Cunningham has remained one of the most contemporary and progressive creative artists of our day, consistently expanding audience perception of dance and its relationship to music and the visual arts. 'There's no thinking involved in my choreography...I don't work through images or ideas I work through the body...If the dancer dances which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance everything is there. When I dance, it means: this is what I am doing.' Merce Cunningham Presented by Dance Umbrella as part of its 25th Anniversary Festival Tate Modern Turbine Hall
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