Merce Cunningham Dance Company      Artistic Adviser
   

Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Decor & Lighting

Dove Bradshaw  Merce Cunningham invited Dove Bradshaw as Co-Artistic Advisor with William Anastasi

1984-1990, Phrases, Arcade, Points In Space, Fabrications, Cargo X, Trackers                                                        On-line catalogue, 180 pages
 
 

Phrases, 1984

World Première, Théâtre Municipal d'Angers, France                                                                                                        Music: David Tudor                                                                                                                                                               Set: William Anastasi                                                                                                                                                 Costumes and Lighting: Dove Bradshaw
 
  Phrases, 1984
 
 

Arcade, 1985

World première, City Center, New York                                                                                                                         Music: John Cage                                                                                                                                                             Design, Costumes, Lighting: Dove  Bradshaw
 
  Arcade, 1985
 
 

Points In Space, 1986

World Premiere, City Center, New York                                                                                                                       Music: John Cage                                                                                                                                                                  Set: William Anastasi                                                                                                                                                Costumes: Dove Bradshaw
 
  Points In Space, 1986
 
  Points In Space, 1986
 
 

Fabrications, 1987

World première, Northrup Auditorium, Minneapolis                                                                                                Music: Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta                                                                                                                         Set, Costumes and Lighting: Dove Bradshaw
 
  Fabrications, 1987
 
  Fabrications, 1987
 
  Fabrications, 1987
 
  Fabrications, 1987
 
  Fabrications, 1987
 
  Fabrications, 1987
 
 

Cargo X, 1989

World première, University of Texas, Austin, Texas                                                                                                 Music: Takehisa Kosugi;
Design, Costumes and Lighting: Dove Bradshaw
 
  Cargo X, 1989
 
 

Trackers, 1990

World première, City Center, New York                                                                                                                        Music: Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta
Set, Costumes and Lighting: Dove Bradshaw
 
 

Trackers, 1990

First computer derived work using Life Forms computer program for choreography

 
  Trackers, 1990

Attracted by her use of indeterminacy, the practice of using chance and natural forces to act upon her work, Cunningham invited Dove Bradshaw, along with William Anastasi, to become joint Artistic Advisors to his dance company in 1984. The resonances between Bradshaw’s work and that of Cunningham’s are clear; both made extensive use of chance procedures as part of their creation. Bradshaw’s Contingency Series abandons traditional artistic practices and uses materials that react differently depending on environmental conditions, just as Cunningham abandons not only musical forms, but narrative and other conventional elements of dance composition—such as cause and effect, and climax and anticlimax.


Stephen Jones
Christies 2011 Spring Catalogue