An early experiment in the use of chance procedures as a means to suspend artistic agency, Jean Arp's 1916 Collage géométrique is one in a series of collages drawn from the random composition of tossed pieces of paper. (swissinstitute.net)
Join us at 5:30 p.m. for a complimentary drink before the performances begin at 6 p.m. Former Cunningham dancer Silas Riener performs the newly reconstructed work Changeling, an early Merce Cunningham solo choreographed using chance procedures, to Christian Wolff's score for prepared piano, Suite. (hammer.ucla.edu)
Andrea Weber, formerly a dancer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 2004 to 2011, introduces participants to Cunningham's techniques and chance procedures as choreographic tools. (mcachicago.org)