Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California (BAM/PFA) presents Anna Halprin / MATRIX 246 on February 15–April 21, 2013.
MATRIX 246 presents three performances of legendary choreographer Anna Halprin’s seminal dance Parades and Changes (February 15, 16, and 17), as well as a gallery exhibition with scores, photographs, and other documentation of the piece throughout its forty-eight-year history. Halprin reunites with her original composer, electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick, to stage the final performances of a work that, by using everyday movements and domestic rituals in dance, marked the onset of postmodern choreography. Before every staging, Halprin, the composer, the lighting and stage designers, the dancers, and the crew develop task-based actions that respond to the particular time and site of the dance, making each performance an exercise in collaborative problem solving. Responses to the dance have varied from an outright ban on the work by the New York City Police Department in 1967 to adoring fan mail from a cattle farmer in Sweden. Parades and Changes opened the current BAM/PFA facility in 1970 and the new production celebrates the architecture and history of our building as we prepare to move to our new Downtown Berkeley location in 2015.
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