Conversations with Sculptures with Kim Miller & Jenna Knapp: Contact

July 6, 2014 - 3:00pm - 3:30pm

LSG Contact excerpt 070614 from Kim Miller on Vimeo.

Meet at Mark di Suvero's Lover.
Free to members; to anyone with a ticket to a Trisha Brown performance; or with admission to the sculpture garden.

Throughout the month of July visitors are invited to drop in for a series of informal Conversations with Sculptures as we anticipate the arrival of Trisha Brown Dance Company on July 27 (more info here). Each week, Lynden Artist-in-Residence Kim Miller and recent MIAD graduate Jenna Knapp will position themselves at a different sculpture and offer a series of movement prompts and exercises designed to introduce you to Trisha Brown's approach to movement--particularly the pedestrian movement that is a hallmark of the "Early Works" that will be performed at Lynden--and the way we use our bodies in motion to explore and understand monumental sculpture. Whether your interest is in dance, sculpture, or the transdisciplinary artistic currents of the '60s and '70s--when both the dances and the sculptures were made--you can participate in these casual conversations with sculptures at Lynden. Suitable for all ages, no dance or sculpture experience necessary.

Contact
Contact – with our feet on the ground and heads in the sky we explore the relationship between body and object in space. The skeleton stacks vertically: heel, hip, head…as one part moves other parts respond accordingly. Trisha Brown worked with these relationships, employing pedestrian, everyday movement in her dance compositions. Marc di Suvero balances the contact point of two (or more) planes against gravity, and titles the sculpture Lover, suggesting we view the I-beams as human forms. As we move around his structures, we continually re-orient our own position in relation to them. Let's pay attention to this orientation and points of contact together. Small gestures will be repeated to build towards a larger structure.

More on Trisha Brown and her work: http://www.trishabrowncompany.org


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