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Marc Arthur in the Graham Studio Theater

Marc Arthur in the Graham Studio Theater

Dates:

Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 11:00am

A cross-disciplinary performance that combines painting, sculpture, dance and theater

 
Performance Dates:
 
Friday April 12th, 8:30pm
Saturday April 13th, 8pm
Sunday April 14th, 8pm
 
Graham Presents- After a year in the making, artist Marc Arthur debuts Mascot, a cross-disciplinary performance that combines painting, sculpture, dance and theater, into a visually and conceptually rigorous hour-long experience. Following the success of the artist's recent collaboration with Jack Pierson at Xavier Hufkens Gallery in Brussels, this project unpacks perception and loss to investigate the nature of violence through live painting.
 
Four performers and dancers will create a painting while extensive choreography, text and music guide their actions. Doves are also used by performers during each event which focuses on capturing the live performance through physical transformation. This non-narrative piece builds on structures created by Merce Cunningham and is rooted in techniques perfected by theater and visual artists alike, including The Wooster Group, Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, the Viennese Actionists and the Abstract Expressionists.

 
 
WHERE: 
Graham Studio Theater 
55 Bethune Street (west of Washington), 11th Floor

 

WHEN:  
Friday April 12th, 8:30pm 
Saturday April 13th, 8pm 
Sunday April 14th, 8pm

 

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