Teaching What I Want to Learn

Special guest Bill Evans (New York) will reflect on his career and his choreography. Evans is an internationally-recognized choreographer, performer, teacher, analyst, adjudicator, writer, and visionary in the fields of modern dance, contemporary dance, and dance education. Recent honors include: Dance Teacher Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award, University of Utah College of Fine Arts Distinguished Dance Alumnus Award, Honorary Doctorate from Cornish College of the Arts, and the National High School Dance Festival’s Outstanding Service Award.

Games of Chance in Music and Dance: The Role of Improvisation in Process and Performance

Guest pianist John Hopkins is featured with CD/FW choreographer/performer Sarah Newton in this lecture-performance. CD/FW artistic director Kerry Kreiman and other company members will share insights in regards to the role of improvisation in dance, while Hopkins compares and contrasts its role in music. Q&A time at the end will allow audience members to interact with the performers.

Freudian Slips and Silent Screams

Witness a living embodiment of the concepts behind portraiture and figurative art in a “happening” series of miniature dances and scenes designed to be performed in silence. CD/FW company members will explore the idea of the very act of creating a portrait or modeling for one. Drawing ideas from art history, photography, and personal histories, the dancers will bring their personal interpretations to this long-standing tradition of the “portrait” as a form of human record-keeping and storytelling through art.

David Dawson

David Dawson, painter and longtime assistant and friend of Lucian Freud, shares personal insights and thoughts on his 20-year relationship with the brilliant and driven artist for this Tuesday Evenings at the Modern. Photographing Freud and his studio over the years, Dawson explained to the Guardian that his photographic documentation was an "honest record" of their relationship, commenting that working with Freud was "never a burden, but certainly a commitment."

 

Martin Gayford

Martin Gayford, the British critic, writer, and curator, is “the man in a blue scarf.” As a prominent sitter for Freud and the subject of the painting Man in a Blue Scarf, 2004, Gayford wrote of his experience in the 2010 book Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud. For Tuesday Evenings at the Modern, Gayford shares what he observed throughout his extended sittings and the relationship that he inevitably developed with the artist.

Mr. Gayford will sign books beginning at 6 pm.

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