Two upcoming events bring in performers to complement ongoing exhibitions.

On Wednesday, February 5 at 7 pm, working in collaboration with seven female singers, artist Sarah Angelucci will present a public performance entitled A Mourning Chorus that explores the sounds of disappearing North American song-birds through the historic framework of women’s public mourning rituals. Angelucci’s passenger pigeon intervention Aviary is currently on view in the Canadian gallery.  The performance evening will also include a quartet performing selections from John Luther Adams Songbird (1974/80) along with other events.

from Angelucci’s Aviary series

On Wednesday, February 19, the York Dance Ensemble will perform an excerpt from their Le Sacre du printemps (Rite of Spring) –inspired work: Rite Redux. Choreographed by the ensemble’s artistic director, York dance Professor Holly Small, the excerpt is an audacious, thoroughly contemporary and very Canadian re-imagining of Sacre, transposed into the wilds of northern Ontario and steeped in the iconic imagery of Tom Thompson and The Group of Seven.  Presented in association with the exhibition The Great Upheaval: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collection 1910-1918, it is inspired by Sergei Diaghilev’s groundbreaking work from 1913.

For more info (and to see a video about A Mourning Chorus, see http://www.ago.net/events-adult/