• Wednesday 3 November 2010 - 20h30
• Thursday 4 November 2010 - 20h30
• Friday 5 November 2010 - 20h30
• Saturday 6 November 2010 - 15h00
• Saturday 6 November 2010 - 20h30

First program

Four pieces and two programmes. The great Master will always surprise us and fill us with wonder.

Movement in itself is meaningful. All his life Merce Cunningham has joyfully laboured away at implementing this elementary maxim, the common sense of which would however revolutionize the art of choreography. To celebrate Fifty Years (the title of the book by David Vaughan about Cunningham), the Théâtre de la Ville and the Paris Autumn Festival offer, with two programmes, a fantastic constellation of masterpieces. From the oldest piece Antic Meet (1958), which marked Cunningham’s first visit to France and his irreverent farewell to Martha Graham, to the most recent and very pop-inspired Pond Way "a ballet of transient lives" with music by Brian Eno  and a setting by Roy Lichtenstein (1998), the first programme also presents the gem Second Hand, which was originally composed on a music by Erik Satie, but which John Cage had to adapt into a“cheap imitation” because its copyright was not granted..

Jean.-Marc Adolphe