More John Cage events in Huddersfield
This year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival may be over, but the events connecting hcmf// with the John Cage art exhibition Every Day is a Good Day continue. On Friday 10 December, the exhibition venue, Huddersfield Art Gallery, is hosting performances of Cage’s music by students from the University of Huddersfield’s departments of Music and Drama and Art and Design. Taking place from 11.15am to 1.45pm and 2.15pm to 4pm, the free event will be framed by Cage’s 1970 collection of works Song Books and features other pieces including Variations II, Living Room Music, Speech and Suite for Toy Piano. Chance processes will decide the exact times and combinations of these pieces.
Every Day is a Good Day, which opened at the same time as hcmf// 2010 in November, contains prints, drawings and paintings created by Cage between the late 1960s and his death in 1992. In tribute to the his pioneering and controversial use of chance operations in both his composition and visual art, the exhibition has been changing over the weeks, with between 10 and 15 pictures being added and removed each time according to a random number system. The changes will happen every Wednesday until 5 January 2011.
On Saturday 8 January 2011, the end of the exhibition will be marked with two events. At 12 noon, Alvin Curran and Edges Ensemble will descend upon Huddersfield Rail Station for a repeat performance of Ear Training, which opened hcmf// 2010. Then from 1pm to 3pm, the art gallery provides the backdrop for Every Day is a Good Dance, an improvising dance workshop led by Gerry Turvey, a Leeds-based choreographer and educator whose previous dance pieces include Fallen Angels in Leeds’ Holy Trinity Church. She has also performed in an allotment polytunnel, outside a shopping centre and by the side of the Leeds-Liverpool canal.
Aimed at adults and open to anyone regardless of experience, Every Day is a Good Dance takes Cage’s ideas as inspiration for creative play and spontaneous images, with reference to his visual scores and unique notation for music and visual work. The workshop costs £7 per person (£5 concessions) and advance booking before 5pm on Wednesday 5 January is essential. Participants should wear loose, warm, comfortable clothing and be prepared to go barefoot. To book, contact Gerry Turvey by emailing turveyworld2@yahoo.com.
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