Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 5: Artist-Programmer Era (1970s)

1979

Dance by Lucinda Childs

Artwork · North America · Women Artists

Gallery view of the Whitney Museum's 2009 exhibition Lucinda Childs: Dance, which brought together the Childs, Glass and LeWitt material for the 1979 work.
Gallery view of the Whitney Museum's 2009 exhibition Lucinda Childs: Dance, which brought together the Childs, Glass and LeWitt material for the 1979 work. Installation view, Lucinda Childs: Dance, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2009. Photograph: Sheldan C. Collins. Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art. Image source.

By the legendary generative choreographer Lucinda Childs, this piece would be exhibited for the first time in 2009 at the Whitney Museum. Dance included choreography by Childs, musical composition by Philip Glass and visuals by Sol LeWitt. It was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

People

Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, Sol LeWitt

Movements

Chance Dance, Generative Choreography

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Ideas
Chance Dance, choreography, collaboration, dance, Generative Choreography, music
People
Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, Sol LeWitt
Organisations
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Whitney Museum of American Art
Places
New York

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