Sara Rudner’s Radiant Life in Dance

Recognized as one of the great dance artists of contemporary dance, Sara Rudner became a founding member of Twyla Tharp’s dance company in 1965. She collaborated and performed with Tharp for 20 years, then directed the Sara Rudner Performance Ensemble. In this evening event, Wendy Perron and Jodi Melnick—two dance artists who worked with Rudner in different decades—speak with Sara Rudner about her career and the ways in which she challenged the conventions of concert dance. They present video excerpts of Rudner from the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, as she appears in Tharp’s Eight Jelly Rolls, Bix Pieces, and The Catherine Wheel, as well as in her own works like Dancing Parttime, and the 1999 version of the Dancing-on-View.