Josef Albers, Leaf Study IX, c. 1940

Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957

  • This is a past exhibition

Essay

In-Gallery Performances

Friday–Sunday, March 18, 19, and 20

12 p.m. and 2 p.m. each day

Former Cunningham dancer Silas Riener performs the newly reconstructed work Changeling, an early Merce Cunningham solo choreographed using chance procedures, to Christian Wolff’s score for prepared piano, Suite. Dancer and choreographer Polly Motley performs Glyph, a whimsical work choreographed by dancer and teacher Katherine Litz at Black Mountain College in 1951, to Lou Harrison’s score The Glyph. Pianist Aron Kallay and percussionist Yuri Inoo. 

Friday–Sunday, April 15, 16, and 17

Friday–Sunday, April 22, 23*, and 24 


12 p.m. and 2 p.m. each day (*12 p.m. and 1 p.m.)

Former Cunningham dancer Silas Riener performs the newly reconstructed work Changeling, an early Merce Cunningham solo choreographed using chance procedures, to Christian Wolff’s score for prepared piano, Suite. Dancers from L.A. Dance Project will perform excerpts from Springweather and People (1955), Suite for Five (1956), Changeling (1957), and other early work by Merce Cunningham. Music by Christian Wolff and John Cage is performed by pianist Aron Kallay

Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957

 

 

The Hammer Museum's presentation of Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 is made possible by a gift from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund. Major support is provided by Susan and Larry Marx.

 

 

Generous funding is also provided by The Broad Art Foundation, Wasserman Foundation, Margo Leavin, and Chara Schreyer. Support for related programming is provided by Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer.

 

 

Leap Before You Look has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence. 

 

 

 

 

Major support is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation.

 

 

This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

 

 

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

 

 

 

 

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