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Beth Gill Brand New Sidewalk (performance view) World Premiere/Walker Commission Performed at the Walker Art Center’s McGuire Theater on May 5–6, 2017 Photo: Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center

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Beth Gill Brand New Sidewalk (performance view) World Premiere/Walker Commission Performed at the Walker Art Center’s McGuire Theater on May 5–6, 2017 Photo: Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center

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Beth Gill Brand New Sidewalk (performance view) World Premiere/Walker Commission Performed at the Walker Art Center’s McGuire Theater on May 5–6, 2017 Photo: Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center

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Beth Gill Brand New Sidewalk (performance view) World Premiere/Walker Commission Performed at the Walker Art Center’s McGuire Theater on May 5–6, 2017 Photo: Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center

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Beth Gill Brand New Sidewalk (performance view) World Premiere/Walker Commission Performed at the Walker Art Center’s McGuire Theater on May 5–6, 2017 Photo: Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center

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Beth Gill Brand New Sidewalk (performance view) World Premiere/Walker Commission Performed at the Walker Art Center’s McGuire Theater on May 5–6, 2017 Photo: Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center

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Above: Beth Gill, Eleanor & Eleanor (2007). Photo: Paula Court From May 5–6, Beth Gill performs Brand New Sidewalk, a World Premiere/Walker Commission (part of Merce Cunningham: Common Time Performances)

“It’s difficult to convey in words how Gill’s work is both crystalline and earthy, spare, yet complex.” —ArtsJournal

Known for her exacting rigor and mesmerizing precision, Bessie Award–winner Beth Gill makes choreography that is spare yet playful, stark yet beautiful. In Brand New Sidewalk, Gill teams up with composer Jon Moniaci and lighting designer Thomas Dunn to create a sparse and elegant diptych born of questioning the value of formalism in dance. This evocative new piece for four dancers explores themes of alienation, erasure, and power, illuminating the compositional pleasure of the Merce Cunningham legacy while refracting it for our times through Gill’s unique lens.

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Beth Gill on her dance/performance Brand New Sidewalk: “This material is living in a kind of hybrid space of visual art and dance. On one hand, it’s like a striptease.... But the intention is more about finding a kind of expressivity in the formal nature of each of these materials — their color, their texture and how they behave.”

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Danielle Goldman in Brand New Sidewalk photographed by Maria Baranova for The New York Times