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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.

Again, In Another Time and Space

Again, In Another Time and Space

“You want to be authentic to the bones and the spirit of [the original], and you also want to embrace the approximations…the things that change,” says Patricia Lent of Merce Cunningham Trust, an experienced restager. Lent, along with theater-maker Richard Schechner, video/installation artist Sharon Hayes, and UC Berkeley professor and moderator Shannon Jackson, here explores the difficulties of recreating works of performance, and how the terms used to describe such acts—restaging, reconstructing, reenacting—vary across disciplines. Also addressed in this lively conversation are such topics as the singularity of the performer, the economics of copying, the embodiment of artistic practice, and the tyranny of the archive.

“Again, in another time and place: A conversation on reconstruction, restaging, and reenactment,” produced by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and presented at FringeArts in Philadelphia, on October 5, 2013.

This event “Again, in another time and place: A conversation on reconstruction, restaging, and reenactment” was produced by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and presented at FringeArts in Philadelphia, on October 5, 2013. That same weekend, with Center funding, Lucinda Childs re-presented a half-dozen of her early dance works.