A Birthday for Elaine:
Illuminated Working(wo)man

On June 12-20, 1975 Elaine Summers Dance & Film Co. and many local collaborators created and performed Illuminated Workingman, in Buffalo, NY. It was a celebration of the working people of Western New York and involved the entire city, incl. trade unions, business councils, SUNY Buffalo, local artists, musicians and dancers. Paula Court was involved as filmmaker and photographer, Trisha Brown kindly contributed a dance score of signals and flags, Sam Rivers was among the musicians, Edward Bhartonne, Tedrian Chizik, Robert Coe, Roberta Garrison, Ellen Saltonstall, and Ann Waxman were among the many dancers.

Art critic, writer, and emeritus museum director of the George Eastman House and the Burchfield Penney Art Center,
Dr. Anthony Bannon (bio) will join us to tell about his experiences as a filmmaker in this large-scale extravaganza of Elaine's beloved intermedia, which he captured in part on film. The film was first shown at the Hirschhorn Smithsonian Museum.

We are happy and honored that we can equally welcome acclaimed composer and longtime collaborator of Elaine's, Carman Moore who composed all the music of Illuminated Workingman and just showed his interdisciplinary art and science opera Embracing the Root with Lotte Arnsbjerg (Copenhagen) and several other collaborators at The Center at West Park, New York City. 

Join us as luminaries past and present from across media & genres get together on this special occasion!

The Artistic Estate of Elaine Summers is facilitated by the Kinetic Awareness^® Center, Inc. a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation dedicated to research and development of the Kinetic Arts & Sciences with special thanks to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Links:
Elaine Summers Dance+Film: http://www.elainesummersdance.com
Skytime: http://www.skytime.org
History of Skydance/Skytime: http://www.skytime.org/skytime_history.html
Kinetic Awareness^® Center: http://www.kineticawarenesscenter.org
Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/elainesummersdance
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Summers
Fales Library: http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/judson.html
Lincoln Center Jerome Robbins Dance Collection: http://bit.ly/hGFZ3C