Looking with “soft eyes” at Hex

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Notes

1 This text, along with “A Short Manifesto on Hex,” appeared in the program.

2 Section headings are overheard fragments from rehearsal.

3 From “A Short Manifesto on Hex.”

4 Bessie does not appear in the videos but does perform. Vanessa, one of the original dance artists to participate, does not perform but appears in the videos and her choreographed material moves through Bessie and the other performers.

5 Merce Cunningham on his 1964 Event in Vienna: “Presented without intermission, this Event consists of complete dances, excerpts of dances from the repertory, and often new sequences arranged for particular performance and place, with the possibility of several separate activities happening at the same time – to allow not so much [for] an evening of dances as the experience of dance” (Merce Cunningham Trust, 2016).

6 From “A Short Manifesto on Hex.”

7 Gia Kourlas, “Review: ‘Hex’ Explores Shape-Shifting and Transference,” The New York Times, February 4, 2016.