Available Light

FringeArts

Available Light at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1983. Photo by Tom Vinetz. Performers: Lucinda Childs, Nan Friedman, Meg Harper, Janet Kaufman, Priscilla Newell, Steve Bromer, Michael Ing, Erin Matthiessen, Daniel McCusker, Ande Peck, and Garry Reigenborn. — *Available Light at* the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1983. Photo by Tom Vinetz. Performers: Lucinda Childs, Nan Friedman, Meg Harper, Janet Kaufman, Priscilla Newell, Steve Bromer, Michael Ing, Erin Matthiessen, Daniel McCusker, Ande Peck, and Garry Reigenborn.

Recipient

Grant Year 2013

Grant Amount $250,000

Status Completed

Updated May 30, 2023

FringeArts will produce a re-imagined production of Available Light—a multidisciplinary work by choreographer Lucinda Childs, architect Frank Gehry, and composer John Adams—at its September 2015 festival in Philadelphia. Originally conceived as a site-specific work for the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in 1983, in which a warehouse performance space became an integral part of the event, Available Light will be restaged at a Philadelphia location to be determined. Julie Lazar, the curator who commissioned the work by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, will join the artists, who will be reunited for the first time. Dance scholar Suzanne Carbonneau, who participated in FringeArts' 2010 Center-funded presentation of Childs' DANCE, will helm ancillary events, including a public conversation with Childs, Gehry, Adams, and Lazar.

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