and newly added Craneway Event at Ford Point
  
For two weeks in November, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) will engage some of the most creative minds at UC Berkeley. Honoring Cunningham's practice of pushing the boundaries of modern dance, his company's return to Cal Performances has sparked a series of unprecedented collaborations—in studios, classrooms and events for the public—with the UC Berkeley Departments of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS), Art Practice, and Music, Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA).
Events are free and open to the public except where noted.
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Thu, Nov 6
Composer Colloquium
4-5:30 pm, 125 Morrison Hall
An open forum with MCDC musicians and composers Takehisa Kosugi, Christian Wolff, John King, Stephan Moore and David Behrman, presented in association with the Department of Music.
Artist Talk with Merce Cunningham
7 pm, Wheeler Auditorium
The legendary artist discusses his pioneering modern dance career. Presented by Cal Performances in association with TDPS.
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Fri, Nov 7
MCDC Performance: Cunningham/Suite for Five (1953-1958, revived in 2002), music by John Cage; eyeSpace (20-minute version, 2006), music by Mikel Rouse; BIPED (1999), music by Gavin Bryars
8 pm, Zellerbach Hall, $26/$34/$48
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Sat, Nov 8
MCDC Performance: Cunningham/Second Hand (1970, revived 2008), music by John Cage; Split Sides (2003), music by Radiohead and Sigur Ros
8 pm, Zellerbach Hall, $26/$34/$48
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Sun, Nov. 9
MCDC Craneway Event
1pm & 3pm, Ford Point , Richmond
Merce Cunningham Dance on Film
BAM/PFA, 2575 Bancroft Way
Tickets: 510.642.5249 bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries
5:30 pm
Beach Birds for Camera (Elliot Caplan, 1991)
Cage/Cunningham: A Film (Elliot Caplan, 1991)
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Wed, Nov 12
The John Cage Legacy: Chance in Music and Mathematics: a happening@MSRI
5:30-7 pm, 17 Gauss Way, Berkeley, www.msri.org
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Thu, Nov 13
Merce Cunningham Dance on Film
BAM/PFA, 2575 Bancroft Way
Tickets: 510.642.5249 bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries
7:30 pm
Locale (Charles Atlas, 1979)
CRWDSPCR (Elliot Caplan, 1996)
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Fri, Nov 14
Panorama: Multi Media Happening
5-7 pm, Pauley Ballroom, UC Berkeley
Live dance, robotic cameras, and audio technologies juxtaposed with large and small scale projections draw audience members into a performance in 360° that they can enter at any time. Inspired by Nine Evenings: Theater and Engineering (1966) staged in New York's 69th Regiment Armory by artist Robert Rauschenberg and engineer Billy Klüver, with such artistic luminaries as John Cage, Yvonne Rainer, Frank Stella, Steve Paxton, Deborah Hay and, Meredith Monk, Panorama brings together a multi-disciplinary cast to create an evening of interactive and technologically alive theater, honoring the cutting edge collaborations and technological explorations that are the hallmark of the Merce Cunningham and John Cage legacy.
Created by artistic director, Lisa Wymore (Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies), with the dance theater company Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts; Ruzena Bajcsy (Director, Center for Informational Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science): Ken Goldberg (EECS, Berkeley Center for New Media), Greg Niemeyer (Art Practice, BCNM), Abigail De Konsnik (BCNM, TDPS), and Jen Wang (Dept of Music, Center for New Music and Audio Technology). The event also features TDPS students performing experts of Cunningham choreography set on them during two week teaching residency supported by Cal Performances.
Presented by Cal Performances in association with Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, Berkeley Center for New Media, Center for New Music and Audio Technology, Art Practice
Artistic Director: Lisa Wymore
MCDC Performance: Cunningham/eyeSpace (40-minute version, 2007), music by David Behrman and Annea Lockwood; BIPED
8 pm, Zellerbach Hall, $26/$34/$48
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Sat, Nov 15
MCDC Performance: Cunningham/Views on Stage (2004), music by John Cage; Crises (1968, revived 2006), music by Conlon Nancarrow; XOVER (2007), music by John Cage>
8 pm, Zellerbach Hall, $26/$34/$48
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Apr 17-26
Berkeley Dance Project 2009: Equal Footing
Zellerbach Playhouse, $15/$10
Tickets: www.tdps.berkeley.edu
Choreography by Cunningham, Joe Goode, Lisa Wymore and more.
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