Celebrating Robert Rauschenberg’s 100th birthday requires a performance event as singular and imaginative as the artist himself. With vital funding from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, The Art Gallery of Ontario, alongside the Merce Cunningham Trust, will mark this milestone by restaging excerpts from several of the two artists’ collaborative dance pieces. This program, specially created for the AGO, includes Changeling (1957), Antic Meet (1958), Story (1963), and XOVER (2007). Rauschenberg’s Combine painting titled Story (1964) forms part of the AGO’s permanent collection and is the only surviving artifact from the scenography Rauschenberg created onstage during the performance of the same name by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. It is currently on display in the Moments in Modernism exhibition at the AGO through April 26, 2026
Performers: Christian Allen, Sienna Blaw, Eve Jacobs, Justin Lynch, Lindsey Jones, with live musical accompaniment by Adam Tendler.
