Dance Performance: Zero Point Zero
Friday, March 5, 2010, 6-8:30 pm
gallery viewing: 6-7 pm, performance: 7-7:30 pm, wine reception: 7:30-8:30 pm
FREE with Suggested Museum Admission
Choreographer Debra J. Fernandez creates a dialogue in dance with the exhibition BLACKOUT. This second collaboration for Fernandez and Ramirez features dynamic sound and movement designed to activate Ramirez’s installation, with original music by So Takahashi and Carl Landa, and costumes by Kim Vanyo.

Debra J. Fernandez is a director/choreographer whose work has spanned dance, theater and opera.  Her recent work has focused on the museum as an interactive theater space and she has directed three large-scale performance events for The Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York.  She is a professor and chair of dance at Skidmore College where she teaches ballet, choreography, and performance elements.  During her 18 years on the faculty she has created over 50 original works for the Skidmore dancers.

Centennial Conversation
Panel Discussion: Abstract Art—A Living Legacy
Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 6-8 pm
coffee reception: 6-7 pm, program: 7-8 pm
FREE; pre-registration required; call 973.596.6550
Matthew Deleget will moderate a discussion with an international group of contemporary artists including Lenora de Barros, Paul Henry Ramirez and Don Voisine. The artists will talk about the legacy of constructivist abstract art as it relates to their work and explore why abstraction continues to be a vital mode of expression.

Banner image (left to right):

CHUNK 18, 2009, acrylic on canvas; CHUNK 16, 2008, acrylic on canvas; and CHUNK 17, 2009, acrylic on canvas.  Images courtesy of the artist.  Photography Charlotte Raymond.