Lucinda Childs
LUCINDA CHILDS
Lucinda Childs
LUCINDA CHILDS
SUMMERSCAPE FESTIVAL 2026 - FISHER CENTER LAB at BARD COLLEGE
Celebrated for choreography that is rigorous, inventive, and hypnotically precise, Childs has shaped generations of dancers and choreographers. This program includes the North American premieres of several major new works, as well as her groundbreaking collaborations with some of the most influential artists of our time. These include her work with composers Philip Glass and John Adams, and two luminaries lost in 2025—the late theater director Robert Wilson and Frank Gehry. Alongside new short works for her company, Childs performs a solo, offering audiences a uniquely intimate encounter with one of the great living pioneers of contemporary dance.
THE BLANKET produces the work of the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, supporting the artistic vision of Lucinda Childs, who is hailed as a master of minimalism and one of America’s greatest modern choreographers. The Company currently tours her masterwork DANCE, an evening of her early Silent Works, and Momentary Reprise, a retrospective evening of her work spanning her 60+ year career. Scroll down for more information about the work, the touring schedule and booking information.
DANCE
DANCE
The Lucinda Childs Dance Company tours this groundbreaking collaboration from 1979, between three influential figures in minimalism; Lucinda Childs, Sol LeWitt, and Philip Glass. The Guardian called the piece “one of the blindingly seminal collaborations of its era.” The work, both unyielding and restrained, was an important marker in each of the collaborators’ repertoires.
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FOUR NEW WORKS
FOUR NEW WORKS
FOUR NEW WORKS
FOUR NEW WORKS
LUCINDA CHILDS returns to the stage in her evening of Four New Works. These are first pieces developed in almost a decade with the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, and feature artistic collaborations with three outstanding artists from visual arts and music.
Actus, a mirrored duet set to the cantata “Actus Tragicus” by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Geranium ’64, a new adaptation of an original solo from 1965 titled is performed by Lucinda Childs herself. The solo continues Childs’ prolific collaborative record with video work by the renowned visual artist Anri Sala and features a 40’ projection wall.
Timeline, a new creation for seven dancers to unreleased music by the Icelandic composer, cellist and Academy Award Winner Hildur Guðnadóttir.
Distant Figure is a new choreographic work for six dancers with music by Philip Glass, accompanied live by Russian star-pianist Anton Batagov, who will plays the 2017 composition that Glass wrote for his long-standing artistic partner Lucinda Childs.