Epic 12-Hour “Our Labyrinth For Grace” Art, Music & Dance Event (Grace Cathedral)
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Grace Cathedral | 1100 California Street. San Francisco, CA
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Grace Cathedral’s New Artist in Residence: Lee Mingwei (Oct. 2-9)
From October 2-9, 2022, Lee Mingwei will join Grace Cathedral as the Artist in Residence!
Lee will contemplate the Year of Connection and share his story and inspiration at cornerstone events such as The Forum, Yoga on the Labyrinth, and Choral Eucharist. He will offer an epic 12-hour performance of his work, Our Labyrinth for Grace, in which dancers use a stylized broom to sweep a mound of rice along a labyrinthian path of their choosing.
Learn more about Lee’s residency at gracecathedral.org/air2022.
The Forum with Lee Mingwei (free)
Sunday, October 2
9:30 to 10:30 amIn conversation with Dean Malcolm Clemens Young
Yoga on the Labyrinth (Starting at $15)
Tuesday, October 4
6:15 to 7:30 pmLee Mingwei will give the intention
Artist Talk with de Young Curator-in-Charge Claudia Schmuckli (free)
Thursday, October 6
7 to 8 pmOur Labyrinth For Grace ($18
$20) – Use code GRACEFRIENDS for 10% offSaturday, October 8
12 pm to 12 amAn epic 12-hour West Coast premiere performance with three dancers, a prelude by the Men of the Choir of Men and Boys, and postlude by organist Susan Jane Matthews. You are welcome to come and go throughout the day. Get 10% off with code GRACEFRIENDS
The Forum with Lee Mingwei & Dancers (free)
Sunday, October 9
9:30 to 10:30 amIn conversation with Dean Malcolm Clemens Young
Choral Eucharist & Reception Celebrating Lee Mingwei (free)
Sunday, October 9
11 am
Grace Cathedral’s 2022 Artist in Residence is the phenomenal New York and Paris-based Lee Mingwei. Lee creates participatory installations, infused with beauty and ritual, where strangers can explore issues of trust, intimacy, and self-awareness. Lee’s work has been shown internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and Tate Modern in London. In the spring of 2024, the de Young Museum will present a retrospective of his work.
The culmination of his residency will be Our Labyrinth For Grace, an epic twelve-hour performance by three dancers, with introductory music by the Men of the cathedral’s Choir of Men and Boys, and a finale by organist Susan Jane Matthews.
Our Labyrinth For Grace was inspired by Lee’s visit to a Buddhist temple in Myanmar, where he saw volunteers sweeping the pathways quietly and slowly. It was a gift they were giving to the community, but also to themselves — to be able to perform a ritual of cleansing but also to make a clear path for visitors to walk on.
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$20– Normally $20, get 10% off with code GRACEFRIENDSThis is Lee’s first project that is traditionally what people understand as a performance. In it, a single dancer appears with a broom and slowly sweeps a pile of rice into labyrinthian patterns for an hour and a half, before the next dancer takes the first’s place. Although the dancers sweep the rice with a broom, they are not clearing a path but creating and destroying patterns in the exact moment when each happens. It is a dance of space and time.
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Cost: $18*
