"Beach Birds" revived

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Merce Cunningham's "Beach Birds" is performed as part of the Beach Sessions Dance Series,

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......The ninth iteration of the summer program features not one but two innovative artists: the late Merce Cunningham, whose 1991 dance, Beach Birds, alights for the first time on sand, and Sarah Michelson, with a response shaped by her experience in the ’90s, as part of the broader Cunningham community. As with a rare pair of nesting falcons, some onlookers will make a pilgrimage and others will happen upon a magic moment. “I've been calling it a ‘natural occurrence,’ which is something that birders talk about,” Okshteyn says. “It’s something that you experience and you’re like, ‘Oh my god, what is this?’—especially for beachgoers. And then it comes and goes. It’s very ephemeral. I think that’s the beauty of it too.”