John Cage Trust Event Video Library

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EVENTS

February 2026 on CHANCE ENCOUNTERS WITH JOHN CAGE: Curator/Choreographer Sue Schroeder and Curator Hugo Worthy discuss residue, what remains, an exhibition and performance program at the Leicester Gallery, UK, including talk on Cage, Fluxus, art, and performance.

January 2026: Music critic of The New Yorker Alex Ross discussed Cage's first lover and his role in Cage's early intellectual and artistic development. This was the kickoff of CHANCE ENCOUNTERS WITH JOHN CAGE.

A four minute and thirty-three minute walk through Richard Serra’s “Running Arcs (for John Cage")” at the Gagosian Gallery in New York City, on display in 2025 for the first time in the US.

Short excerpts of an October 8, 2025 concert organized by the John Cage Trust in Wuppertal at the Peter Kowald Gesselchaft presented in celebration of the 2025 “Five Friends” exhibition in Cologne.

Stink Horn, a lecture performance presented by the John Cage Trust featuring mycologist & musician Siôn Parkinson, combining Cage, mushrooms, and more, at The Flow Chart Space in Hudson, NY, May 9, 2025.

A Cage & Cunningham performance organized by the John Cage Trust, the Merce Cunningham Trust and curator Richard Colton at the Round Bard Dance Series at Churchtown Dairy in Hudson, NY, September 20, 2025

On March 19, 2026 on CHANCE ENCOUNTERS WITH JOHN CAGE, we spoked with Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar of Big Dance Theater to discuss John Cage, Indeterminacy, Performance, and the new work in development by Paul featuring a text by Anne Carson while in residence at the John Cage Trust. The session included a video excerpt of Paul's "John Cage Shuffle." Watch that excerpt directly here.