Dance/Music/Space March 3, 2012

Dancers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener with violist Eyvind Kang forge new movements and music in conjunction with the idiosyncrasies of Tishman Commons, a nontraditional performance space.

Rashaun Mitchell started dancing at Concord Academy in Massachusetts, and joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 2004. Among his many awards, Mitchell received a 2010 New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for his participation in Pam Tanowitz’s “Be in the Gray with Me.”

Silas Riener graduated from Princeton University with a degree in comparative literature and creative writing. He premiered NOX, a collaboration with poet Anne Carson and choreographer Rashaun Mitchell. Reiner joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 2007.

Eyvind Kang is an American composer, violinist, tubaist, and erhu player. Kang's work takes a classical approach to jazz music with punk, ambient, and traditional folk influences.