Program notes for The (Effortless) Now at the Library of Congress

For The (Effortless) Now: Dances of Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski at the Library of Congress on June 3, 2025, presented in cooperation with Bowerbird, Dustin Hurt, director of Bowerbird, wrote the program notes for Here and Now with Watchers (1957), Cantilever (1963) and Elusive Pierce / Disparate Stairway Radical Other. The Erick Hawkins Dance Company performed in the Coolidge Auditorium with pianist Agnese Toniutti and the Daedalus Quartet, during Dlugoszewski’s centenary year and soon after our retrospective of her work in Philadelphia.

Read the program (PDF) from the Library of Congress.