
PERFORMANCE AND FILM SCREENING: Suite for Two (1958)
A live restaging of Merce Cunningham's 1958 Suite for Two paired with a screening of the dance film Beach Birds at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, spotlighting mid-century modern choreography and archival performance.
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