An older white woman with short white hair pulls on a rope with her entire body weight. The scene is very dark and photographed at an angle. The woman is wearing a dark overall.
© Alexandra Polina
An older white woman with short white hair pulls on a rope with her entire body weight. The scene is very dark and photographed at an angle. The woman is wearing a dark overall.
© Alexandra Polina
International Summer Festival 2024
Dance

Lucinda Childs Dance Company

Four New Works

Lucinda Childs returns to Hamburg to present four world premieres with her company, collaborating with visual artist Anri Sala and composers Philip Glass and Hildur Guðnadóttir.

Tickets:

46/36/24/14/9 Euro (conc. ab 4,50 Euro, 50% with Festivalkarte)

Past dates

A gloomy graphic in black, gray and pink with the words INTERNATIONAL SUMMER FESTIVAL running across it. In the middle is a swirl.
International Summer Festival 2024
Two young white people, a man and a woman, stand smiling with their arms crossed in front of a dark corridor. They are wearing plain black clothes. The photo has a lot of depth of field.
Lucinda Childs Dance Company
Dance Workshop
A hand playing the piano was photographed in motion. The shot is very close and minimalist.
Anri Sala
Take Over (Internationale), 2017
HAMBURGER KUNSTHALLE: UNTRANQUIL NOW
LUCINDA CHILDS ARTFORUM FEATURE (1973)
LUCINDA CHILDS ARCHIVES AT CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA DANSE

Lucinda Childs (*1940), one of the most influential choreographers in recent dance history, opens the Summer Festival with an evening of four new pieces. These are the first works she has developed in almost a decade with her Lucinda Childs Dance Company. Created as artistic collaborations with three outstanding artists from visual arts and music, these new works feature contributions by minimal music pioneer Philip Glass, Oscar-winning avant-garde composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, and visual artist Anri Sala. Following the success of the Summer Festival co-production AVAILABLE LIGHT in 2015, this world premiere will feature Lucinda Childs herself on stage and subsequently tour the globe. In addition, video works by Lucinda Childs and Anri Sala will be on display in the exhibition UNTRANQUIL NOW at Hamburger Kunsthalle. Additionally, video installations by Anri Sala will be on display at the Kunsthalle and in the Vorhalle at Kampnagel.

Program:

  • ACTUS: Duet, set to the cantata "Actus Tragicus" (BWV 106) by Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • GERANIUM '64: Solo performance featuring Lucinda Childs, based on GERANIUM (1965) and set to Anri Sala’s new video piece.
  • DISTANT FIGURE: Ensemble piece with music by Philip Glass, featuring Anton Batagov live on piano.
  • TIMELINE: Ensemble piece with music by Hildur Guðnadóttir.

An older white woman with short white hair pulls on a rope with her entire body weight. The scene is very dark and photographed at an angle. The woman is wearing a dark overall.
© Alexandra Polina
An older white woman with short white hair pulls on a rope with both hands and uses her entire body weight to do so. The scene is very dark. The woman is wearing a dark-coloured jumpsuit.
© Alexandra Polina
Two dancers in simple green and grey costumes dance with outstretched arms and legs in front of a blue background. They have a stiff posture and expressionless facial expressions.
© Alexandra Polina
Two dancers in simple green and grey costumes stand with their legs wide apart in front of a blue background. They have a stiff posture and expressionless facial expressions. In front, another person walks out of the frame.
© Alexandra Polina

Press photos Lucinda Childs FOUR NEW WORKS
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Evening program Lucinda Childs Four New Works
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With: Lucinda Childs Dance Company

Choreography Lucinda Childs Dance Lucinda Childs Dance Company: Lucinda Childs, Katie Dorn, Kyle Gerry, Robert Mark Burke, Sharon Milanese, Matt Pardo, Caitlin Scranton, Kellye Smith Composition Johann Sebastian Bach, Philip Glass, Hildur Guðnadóttir Video Anri Sala Costumes Nile Baker Light Design Sérgio Pessanha Piano Anton Batagov

Production Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel, The Blanket, Lucinda Childs Dance Company.

Co-Produktion Berliner Festspiele, Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse Paris, La Bâtie-Festival de Genève

Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media). Support Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, James Madison University, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance.

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