Marie Fourcaut and her group of improvisational dance students weave ancient, personal, and newly found movements with freedom and fluidity at the Hall Art Foundation in Reading, Vermont. The group responds to the works of Olafur Eliasson and George Baselitz in a performance that incorporates rhythm, alignment, and focused attention.
Baselitz, one of Germany’s most celebrated living artists, is possibly best known for his paintings of inverted figures, animals, landscapes, and still-lives that emerged in 1969. "I like to be upside down, I like inversions," Fourcaut says. "When you're upside down you see life in a very different way. We all need a new perspective."
Eliasson describes his works as “devices for the experience of reality.” His individual works and projects prompt a greater sense of awareness about the ways we both interpret and co-produce the world. Fourcaut and her group “co-produce” dances in response to Eliasson’s Light ventilator mobile (2002), and Your uncertain shadow (growing) (2010).
Fourcaut has worked for over 40 years with ballet and modern dance companies in Paris and the United States, including Les Ballets Blaska, Jennifer Mueller, Crow’s Nest, Martha Clarke and Pilobolus. She currently teaches classes in yoga and in dance improvisation in Hanover, New Hampshire as part of the Fitness and Lifestyle Improvement Program at Dartmouth College.
Sunday, 23 November 2014 | 1:00 p.m.
Hall Art Foundation | Reading, Vermont
551 VT Route 106
Reading, VT 05062
Tel: + 1 802 952 1056
vermont@hallartfoundation.org
Admission: Free
Open to the general public, although space is limited and reservations are required.
Please email vermont@hallartfoundation.org or call + 1 802 952 1056.