COMING UP!
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Readings at Parkside:
Iris Garden—John Cage William Gedney
Saturday, December 5
Bacchanale (iteration)
Quarter Turn: Sidra Bell Dance NY
Please join us to celebrate the publication of Iris Garden: Stories by John Cage & Photos by William Gedney from Magic Hour Press, at last back in print.
IRIS GARDEN
Stories JOHN CAGE
Photos WILLIAM GEDNEY
With readings by
REBECCA BENGAL . LEE ANN BROWN . MATT CONNORS . ANTHONY CUDAHY . JASON FULFORD . MAYA HARDINGE . JEFFREY LEPENDORF . TAMARA SHOPSIN . AMY SILLMAN . JORDAN WEITZMAN . MATT WOLF
& Music by
LORI SCACCO
Like a mushroom hunting trip full of unexpected pleasures, Iris Garden combines 22 of John Cage’s stories with 44 of William Gedney’s photographs (including several of the composer himself) with an ingenious design mirroring Cage’s concept of chance.
Originally published in a small print run by Alec Soth’s independent press Little Brown Mushroom in 2013, this new edition brings a rare, long out-of-print work back into circulation. Soth—widely regarded as a major voice in contemporary photography—founded his press as a space to experiment with image and text. Iris Garden reflects that spirit, uniting two artists he has deeply admired in a collaboration that feels at once intimate, open-ended, and quietly radical.
Saturday, December 5 at 6PM
60 minutes, no intermission
$45 General Admission | $25 Student Admission (with student ID)
Kaatsbaan Black Box Theater (120 Broadways, TIvoli, NY)
A brief Q + A with Sidra Bell and Jeffrey Lependorf will follow the performance. Stay after for a post-performance reception in the Studio Complex Lobby.
Sidra Bell Dance New York celebrates 25 years in Quarter Turn, a special night of performance at Kaatsbaan. The dance company performs two seminal works, Bacchanale (iteration) and excerpts from IN￨REP: Introspection. A brief Q&A and reception follow with objects on display from the company’s history and a toast in the Lobby Gallery.
Bacchanale (iteration) is a new work commissioned by the John Cage Trust and performed with a live pianist. In 1940, dancer Syvilla Fort asked John Cage to compose an African-inflected work, Bacchanale, to be premiered at the Cornish School in Seattle. With no room on stage for a percussion ensemble, Cage slipped screws, bolts, and weatherstripping between the strings of a grand piano, and the prepared piano was born. The company will also perform excerpts from IN￨REP: Introspection, a Bessie Award–nominated retrospective that spans its first two decades into a single composition.
Saturday, October 31
Morton Feldman’s for john cage
For the Morton Feldman Centennial, the John Cage Trust and Bard Conservatory present a special concert by Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) performing Feldman's For John Cage.
Morton Feldman (1926–1987) would be 100 this year. A great friend of John Cage's, the John Cage Trust, Bard Conservatory, and Culture Ireland present a rare opportunity to hear Feldman's rarely performed, exquisite work for violin and piano, For John Cage(1982).
Tickets: $20 (free with a Bard ID)
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