Hall Art Foundation
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Olafur Eliasson
May 3 - November 30, 2014
Performance
Danse Impromptue with Marie Fourcaut
23 November 2014
HALL ART FOUNDATION | READING, VERMONT

Marie Fourcaut and her group of improvisational dance students weave ancient, personal, and newly found movements with freedom and fluidity at the Hall Art Foundation in Reading, Vermont. The group responds to the works of Olafur Eliasson and George Baselitz in a performance that incorporates rhythm, alignment, and focused attention.

Baselitz, one of Germany’s most celebrated living artists, is possibly best known for his paintings of inverted figures, animals, landscapes, and still-lives that emerged in 1969. "I like to be upside down, I like inversions," Fourcaut says. "When you're upside down you see life in a very different way. We all need a new perspective."

Eliasson describes his works as “devices for the experience of reality.”  His individual works and projects prompt a greater sense of awareness about the ways we both interpret and co-produce the world. Fourcaut and her group “co-produce” dances in response to Eliasson’s Light ventilator mobile (2002), and Your uncertain shadow (growing) (2010).

Fourcaut has worked for over 40 years with ballet and modern dance companies in Paris and the United States, including Les Ballets Blaska, Jennifer Mueller, Crow’s Nest, Martha Clarke and Pilobolus. She currently teaches classes in yoga and in dance improvisation in Hanover, New Hampshire as part of the Fitness and Lifestyle Improvement Program at Dartmouth College.

Sunday, 23 November 2014 | 1:00 p.m.
Hall Art Foundation | Reading, Vermont
551 VT Route 106
Reading, VT 05062
Tel: + 1 802 952 1056
vermont@hallartfoundation.org
 

Admission: Free

Open to the general public, although space is limited and reservations are required.
Please email vermont@hallartfoundation.org or call + 1 802 952 1056.

Film Screening
Olafur Eliasson: Space is Process
21 May 2014 | 19 October 2014

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Olafur Eliasson, on view at the Hall Art Foundation’s galleries in Reading, Vermont from 3 May – 30 November 2014.

 

The filmmakers Henrik Lundø and Jacob Jørgensen follow the Danish-Icelandic artist for five years, trying to understand the implications of his mission: creating installations that change the space around us and thereby the mindset in us.

 

 

Trailer for Olafur Eliasson: Space is Process
Produced for JJ Film by Jacob Jørgensen & Mads Jørgensen
Directed by Henrik Lundø & Jacob Jørgensen

75 min | Documentary | English and Danish | 2010 (Denmark)

 

 

 

Wednesday, 21 May 2014 | 6:30 p.m.

Pentangle Arts Council
The Historic Town Hall Theatre
31 The Green
Woodstock, VT 05091

Tel: +1 802 457 3981
info@pentanglearts.org

 

Admission: Free

A small reception will follow at the Blue Horse Inn at 8 p.m. with a sampling of Vermont cheddar and ice cider.

 

 

Sunday, 19 October 2014 | 2:00 p.m.

Reading Public Library

Hwy 106
Reading, VT 05062

Tel: +1 802 484 5588
reading.public.library@comcast.net

 

Admission: Free

Seating is limited and registration is required.

Reservations must be made by Friday, 17 October through the Reading Public Library by calling +1 802 484 5588.
Please leave your name and number and someone will get back to you.

 

A tour of the exhibition, Olafur Eliasson, will follow at the Hall Art Foundation's galleries in Reading, VT.