Cage, John - Four Walls - Lubimov, Alexei

My free life at the Four Walls Theater began with concert performances in 1992 and thereafter, followed by numerous stage performances with dancers in Finland and Russia. John Cage's collaboration with Merce Cunningham began in 1942; and 70 years later, in 2012, knowing my admiration for Cage and my numerous concerts with his music, the great dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov suggested a dance performance of "Four Walls" at his Baryshnikov Arts Center (New York) with the legendary Merce Cunningham Dance Company, which had officially ended its activities at that time. Director Robert Swinston and eight dancers performed "Four Walls / Doubletoss Interludes" with me, and it became a valuable addition to the history of Four Walls as a theater, while this work remains a magnificent piece of music in its own right, anticipating Glass, Pärt, and minimalism in general. In 2015, the BAC established the Cage-Cunningham Foundation, and I... received the first-ever Cage Cunningham Fellowship Award." (Alexei Lubimov)