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Ocean
Thursday–Saturday, September 11–13 at 8 PM
Rainbow Quarry, Waite Park near St. Cloud, MN
(an hour northwest of Minneapolis)
Experience the monumental staging of Cunningham’s landmark work Ocean like never before—inside a granite quarry 100 feet below the earth’s surface. Dubbed "Merce on the Rocks," this once-in-a-lifetime production of Cunningham’s most ambitious work features the full 14-member Cunningham company and incorporates an electronic score by David Tudor and Andrew Culver’s orchestral score inspired by John Cage's initial work on the project. Music will be performed by 150 classical instrumentalists from the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra, including guest players from across the state of Minnesota, who will encircle the audience at the bottom of the quarry. Acclaimed filmmaker and longtime Cunningham collaborator Charles Atlas will stage a five-camera shoot of the entire production.
“Ocean... is a gorgeous spectacle, conceptually complex yet sensuously gratifying...
Like the sea itself, Ocean teems with life.”
The New York Times
Ocean performance site: Rainbow Quarry, St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Tickets
$50 general admission
$45 Friends of MCDC
For tickets call 612.375.7600
or visit walkerart.org/tickets
Tickets
on sale now.
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Click an image above to view it larger. To see many more MCDC images, visit the Merce Cunningham Flickr Galleries.
A landmark statewide collaboration, and surely one of the most sensational dance projects to be mounted in the U.S. this year, this underground work in-the-round dubbed "Merce on the Rocks" is coproduced by the Walker Art Center and the Cunningham Dance Foundation, with the Benedicta Arts Center of the College of Saint Benedict and Northrop Dance at the University of Minnesota. Major support is generously provided by Sage and John Cowles and the National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces: Presenting program. Additional support provided by The Minneapolis Foundation: Goodale Arts Fund, Leni D. & David Moore, Jr. / The Moore Family Fund for the Arts, and the Dale Schatzlein and Emily Maltz Fund; HRK Foundation: Hayes Fund, Hynnek Fund, Art and Martha Kaemmer Fund, Pugsley Fund, and the Mary H. Rice Foundation; Russell Cowles; Josine Peters; Molly Davies; Michael J. Peterman and David A. Wilson; Penny Rand Winton; the Sewell Family Foundation; and Mavis and Robert Voigt.
Media partner Charter Communications. Special thanks to Martin Marietta Materials and the city of Waite Park.
This revival of Ocean is a co-commission of the Benedicta Arts Center of the College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, MN and Dance Umbrella. Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and members of the Board of Directors of the Cunningham Dance Foundation. The filming of Ocean is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support provided by The Ford Foundation and Save America’s Treasures, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
The Walker Art Center’s Dance Season is sponsored by Gray Plant Mooty.
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