LACMA, Los Angeles

Choreographed by Jennie Liu

About the show

Commissioned to accompany the exhibition Merce Cunningham, Clouds and Screens. Exhaustively appropriating Cunningham’s compositional use of chance, this performance took place in LACMA’s Korean Art Gallery amidst 17th–19th century Korean screen paintings, highlighting the primacy of Asian thinking and aesthetic values in the production of the western avant-garde. Choreographer Jennie Liu playfully consulted contemporary feminist oracles, as well as the ancient Chinese divination text the I Ching, to determine all structural elements of the dance, manifesting in a theatrical display of indeterminacy.

Performers: Jennie Liu, devika wickremesinghe, and Hannah Heller

Live music: Andrew Gilbert

Lighting: Chris Kuhl

Costume Design: Wendy Yang