Performance Photography of Set and Reset with Rambert at Tate Modern, 2022. Photo © Tate Oliver Cowling
Tate Modern continues to showcase live art and performance in ambitious ways and, through the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, Tate has been able to host a number of thought-provoking enthralling, sensory and dynamic performances.
"Leaning on our history, we wanted to continue writing the story of our connection to dance, but with a holistic approach. We wanted to create a programme that would be useful for the dance world."
Serge Laurent
Yvonne Rainer: Trio A
Most recently, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef and Arpels supported Yonne Rainer: Trio A at Tate Modern, a curatorial collaboration between Tate and Sadler’s Wells Rose Choreographic School. It celebrated the 60th anniversary of Yvonne Rainer’s seminal work: Trio A. Live continuous performances took place in the iconic Turbine Hall at Tate Modern to honour the piece (10-11 July 2026), with Tate’s collection film, Trio A, Yvonne Rainer, 1978 screened alongside in the Tanks Foyer. Taking place in the Starr Cinema on 11 July there was In Conversation with Catherine Wood, Yvonne Rainer, Sara Wookey, and Martin Hargreaves.
Yvonne Rainer's Trio A reshaped performance by stripping movement of spectacle and virtuosity. Originally conceived in 1965, the piece was the culmination of several years of experimenting with what Rainer called ‘ordinary dance’ and ‘neutral doing’ using a combination of everyday and ‘found’ movements that unfold without breaks or repetition. Rainer rejected music, narrative, and theatrical climax, creating instead a quiet, continuous flow of everyday actions performed with unwavering focus.
Trio A, 1978. Photo credit: Yvonne Rainer
Hagay Dreaming
In 2025, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels supported Hagay Dreaming, a new theatrical production which saw an artistic collaboration by Taiwanese-American artist Shu Lea Cheang and Truku artist and practicing shaman Dondon Hounwn.
Based on an old legend belonging to the Truku tribe of Taiwan, Hagay Dreaming combined ancient ways of performing tribal culture with cutting-edge technologies. Connecting Cheang’s new media practice spanning art, film and performance with Hounwn’s inheritance of indigenous dance and rituals, Hagay Dreaming blends traditional ways of performing trival culture with advanced laser programming and motion-capture technology, blurring the boundaries between tradition and futurism. Three performances were held in The Tanks at Tate Modern, with musical accompaniment by Shan Shan Chen and percussion by Sayun Chang, bringing this raw industrial space to life with lasers, dance, instrumentals, ritual and chant.
The Programme comprised live performances in Tate Modern’s iconic South Tank, along with artist talks and movement workshops.
Hagay Dreaming. Photo credit: Hagay Dreaming. Photo credit: Hsuan Lang Lin (林軒朗)
Noémie Goudal and Maëlle Poésy: ANIMA
In Summer 2023, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels returned to Tate and supported Noémie Goudal and Maëlle Poésy: ANIMA, a 60-minute multi-media installation of photo, video and performance that premiered in the iconic Turbine Hall of Tate Modern. Visual artist Noémie Goudal and director Maëlle Poésy invited the audience to a delve into the multi-sensory experience that asked viewers to reflect on the ‘sensation of time’ and the effects of climate change.
The piece featured three large-scale moving image projections created by Goudal. This was alongside a unique live performance by aerial artist, choreographer and dancer Chloé Moglia, whose practice is based on suspension and weightlessness. The music for the piece was scored by DJ Chloé Thévenin.
Noémie Goudal and Maëlle Poésy: ANIMA at Tate Modern © Christa Holka
Trisha Brown’s Set and Reset
In 2022, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels presented Trisha Brown's Set and Reset in collaboration with Tate Modern, as part of the first Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels dance festival in London.
This was the first time Trisha Brown's masterpiece of post-modern dance, Set and Reset, was licensed outside of the Trisha Brown Dance Company and performed by Rambert, showcasing the fluid and unpredictable style of Brown's original choreography, which transformed dance history. Working with a process of memorised improvisation, in Set and Reset, Brown layered phrases and timing to create a deconstruction of choreographic practice. Like the original production, it featured stage-set and costumes by Robert Rauschenberg, lighting design by Beverly Emmons, and music by Laurie Anderson, which were key parts of the project. Brown stated that Set and Reset was defined by "metamorphic relationships; relationships between figures both plastic and organic, about space, both physical and aural."
Performance Photography of Set and Reset with Rambert at Tate Modern, 2022. Photo © Tate Oliver Cowling.
Learn more about Yvonne Rainer: Trio A
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