Frame Dance presents a restaging of 50 Looks, Merce Cunningham’s landmark solo work, performed in Rienzi Gardens. 50 Looks is a late work by Cunningham that distills his lifelong inquiry into chance, independence, and the autonomy of movement. Created in 2001, the piece unfolds as a sequence of discrete “looks”—short movement studies drawn from Cunningham’s extensive vocabulary—recombined through chance procedures rather than narrative or musical cues.

 

The house opens at 5 pm for guests to explore the collection with docents on hand to provide information. The performance begins at 6 pm in the gardens and lasts about 25 minutes. A Q&A session with the performers and artistic directors follows the performance.