In conjunction with the exhibition Cinque Mostre 2016 – Across the Board: Parts of a Whole, which remains on view through April 3, the American Academy in Rome presents the first of two appointments exploring the themes engaged by the exhibition. On March 3 the exhibition will be open exceptionally from 5:00 to 8:00pm.

The composer Nina C. Young, currently the Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, will present Temenos, a performance made in collaboration with the choreographer Miro Magloire that involves dancers Elizabeth Brown Hudec and Daniela Gianuzzi and the photographer Simone Ghera. The piece for two dancers and a violin, specifically developed in relationship to the Tempietto di S. Pietro in Montorio, addresses the union of sound and movement in relationship to architecture. The project seeks to create a “vocabulary” database of simple gestalt sound–movement couplings that will then be codified into a syntax that can be used in increasing complex compositional and improvisational environments.

Temenos will take place outdoors at the Tempietto del Bramante, Via di S. Pietro in Montorio. Performances are at 6:00, 6:45, and 7:30pm and last approximately twenty minutes each.

Cinque Mostre 2016 is made possible by the Adele Chatfield-Taylor and John Guare Fund for the Arts and by the Fellows Project Fund of the American Academy in Rome.

The event is organized in collaboration with Real Academia de Espana en Roma.