“Solo Suite in Space and Time” is a solo in five parts: “At Random,” “Stillness,” “Repetition,” “Excursion,” and “For the Air.” The music for the dance, John Cage’s “Music for Piano,” was composed using a chance process in which the notes corresponded to “imperfections in the paper upon which the piece was written.” Cunningham adapted this procedure for his choreography, using the imperfections on paper to determine the spatial patterns and timings. Chance was also used to determine the sequence of movement. “The whole thing lasted about fifteen minutes,” Cunningham recalled, “it was terrifying, the last one was awful, full of leaping. . . It was marvelous to work at but exhausting to do.” In 1956, the solos were incorporated into a dance called “Suite for Five in Space and Time.”
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1953
Solo Suite in Space and Time
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