Dance

Dance, created in 1979, is a pinnacle of post-modern dance, a minimalist ballet that strips dance back to the language of the body. This seminal piece marks the first major collaboration of Lucinda Childs with the composer Philip Glass and is a must-see event for every contemporary dance fan.  

Interpreted by seventeen dancers in a series of glissades, sauts and pirouettes, the dance explores the repetitive and progressively shifting patterns of the score. Dance and music combine to form a world into which, in the words of Lucinda Childs, you want to "slip". Film plays an important part in this work. The appeal of the work is amplified by the screening of the original Sol LeWitt film, thus producing a hypnotic split between stage and background. Dance is, in every sense of the word, a delight.  

Lucinda Childs, co-founder of the Judson Dance Theater, became known in 1976 through her collaboration on the opera Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass. Dance was, however, her first major show, and never did a piece so well deserve its title.