Dance Performance + "Spirit Labour" featuring Janine Antoni & Anna Halprin

248 Utah Street,San Francisco CA 94103

21 August, 2021

Description

Dance performance by Emma Lanier and Cauveri complimented by the screening of "Paper Dance" by Janine Antoni. The evening will feature a dance performance by Emma Lanier and Cauveri that responds to LigoranoReese's compositions for music boxes in the series “Listening to the Material” that are featured in the exhibition, Open Field. Choreography by Emma Lanier. Music by Phyllis Chen and LigoranoReese. Following the performance, LigoranoReese will give a live music box demonstration. The suite of music boxes transpose Anni Albers’s compositions onto punch cards, which are then played as music scrolls boxes fabricated in collaboration with woodworker Seth Janofsky. The punch cards reference the history of the mechanical jacquard loom as well as technologies of data visualization. The artists explain, “There is a robust musicality in all textiles, from their warp and weft to the shuttle of the loom that weaves them together. Albers herself often talked about the importance of listening to the material ‘as a means of communication.'” The performance will be complimented by the SFDFF's presentation of Hugo Glendinning and Adrian Heathfield's Spirit Labour (2016), a visual essay that follows the creative practice of sculptor and performance artist Janine Antoni: her collaborations and conversations with the late choreographer Anna Halprin (1940–2009) and the writer Hélène Cixous. Open Field: Nine Artists Respond to the Ideals of Black Mountain College features historic works by Ruth Asawa, Anni Albers, and John Cage. Contemporary works by Jen Bervin, Lenka Clayton, LigoranoReese, Mary Muszynski, Reniel Del Rosario, Stephanie Syjuco, Leilah Talukder, and Amy Trachtenberg. On view June 5 – September 11, 2021.