Lee Mingwei and Bill T. Jones: OUR LABYRINTH
"It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it." –Rabbi Tarfon (Pirkei Avot 2:16)
Performance 1
Wednesday, September 16, 12–4:30 pm
The Great Hall
MetLiveArts and New York Live Arts are partnering to present a site-specific interaction of Taiwanese-American artist Lee Mingwei's durational work, OUR LABYRINTH. With new contributions by legendary American dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, the performance will be livestreamed over three weeks from The Met’s Galleries featuring a range of dance styles, from ballet to hip hop, modern, vogue, and more.
Live from the Great Hall, this week’s performance features the talents of I-Ling Liu, Ragamuffin (Jesse White), David Thomson with Holland Andrews. The Great Hall has been the majestic main entry of The Metropolitan Museum of Art for more than a century.
Learn more on our website at https://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/met-live-arts/our-labyrinth
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is on the island known as Mannahatta, now called Manhattan in Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape people.
This program is made possible by the Ministry of Culture, R.O.C. (Taiwan) and Taipei Cultural Center in New York, and Jody and John Arnhold. Additional support is provided by the Adrienne Arsht Fund for Resilience through Art.
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Lee Mingwei and Bill T. Jones: Our Labyrinth, Live Performance 1
MetLiveArts and New York Live Arts are partnering to present a site-specific interaction of Taiwanese-American artist Lee Mingwei’s durational work, OUR LABYRINTH.
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