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SITE-SPECIFIC DANCES PRESENTS

In-Process: Love Letters—Cage to Cunningham

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 7PM

Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artists-in-Residence, Site-Specific Dances (artistic directors: Michael Spencer Phillips and Dino Kiratzidis), share an in-process presentation of their new dance-theater work, Love Letters: Cage to Cunningham.

Love Letters: Cage to Cunningham is a dance/media-performance work based on selected letters from Love, Icebox. These letters reveal the interwoven nature of John Cage and Merce Cunningham’s artistic and personal lives. They contain moments of flirtation, humor, insecurity, joy, longing, arousal, and jealousy—emotions specific to the letters but also universal to human experiences of love and longing.

The presentation will be followed by a conversation with the creative team.

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Concessions, including wine, beer, and cocktails, are available for purchase before and during all programs from Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar in the lobby. Refreshments are permitted in the theater.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence  

Principal Sponsor: Kathy Rayner in memory of her husband, Billy Rayner. 

Learning + New Works programs are supported in part by funding from Bobbie Braun -The Neuwirth Foundation, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Endowment Fund, The Melville Straus Family Endowment, and additional support by Collegiate Gateway. 

Additional support provided by Friends of Learning + New Works: Toni and Seth Bernstein, Julie Raynor Gross, Stephanie Joyce and Jim Vos, S. Kutler Foundation, N. Glickberg, D. Glickberg, and J. Abrahams, and Barbara Toll. 

Performing Arts programs are supported in part by Galia Meiri-Stawski and Axel Stawski, Henry and Peggy Schleiff, The Melville Straus Family Endowment, Monica and Peter Tessler, and Vital Projects Fund. Music Programming is supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming, and the Anne Wolf Concert Fund. 

Additional support provided by Friends of the Theater: Natascia Ayers and Jim Ciquera, Bonnie and Joel Bergstein, Gene Bernstein and Kathy Walsh, John and Joan D’Addario, Suzanne and John Golden, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Steve Pesner, in memory of his wife, Michèle Pesner, whose entire life was devoted to all aspects of culture, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Lisa Schultz and Ezriel Kornel, Stacey and Oliver Stanton, and Susi and Peter Wunsch. 

Site-Specific Dances, Pocantico. Photo: Susan Nagib