Sarah Cooper is a curator, writer, and art historian based in Los Angeles.
She is the Public Programs Specialist for performance at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she directs the experimental performance series Ever Present, among other programs.
She has organized programs featuring artists and musicians including Kim Gordon, Simone Forti, Brendan Fernandes, Patti Smith, Lonnie Holley, Martin Creed, Midori Takada, Helado Negro, Moor Mother, David Wojnarowicz, Derek Jarman, and Solange Knowles.
In addition, Sarah has held positions at The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Royal Academy in London, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
She holds a Master's Degree in Art History from Hunter College, New York. Her thesis, Expanding Experimentalism: Popular Music and Art at the Kitchen in New York City, 1971-1985, explores the creative output of artists' bands and the relationship between popular music and avant-garde performance practices.
sarahannecooper [at] gmail.com
She is the Public Programs Specialist for performance at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she directs the experimental performance series Ever Present, among other programs.
She has organized programs featuring artists and musicians including Kim Gordon, Simone Forti, Brendan Fernandes, Patti Smith, Lonnie Holley, Martin Creed, Midori Takada, Helado Negro, Moor Mother, David Wojnarowicz, Derek Jarman, and Solange Knowles.
In addition, Sarah has held positions at The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Royal Academy in London, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
She holds a Master's Degree in Art History from Hunter College, New York. Her thesis, Expanding Experimentalism: Popular Music and Art at the Kitchen in New York City, 1971-1985, explores the creative output of artists' bands and the relationship between popular music and avant-garde performance practices.
sarahannecooper [at] gmail.com
Song of Eurydice
July 15, 2016
Friday Flights
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
SONG OF EURYDICE is a choral and dance-based performance featuring a choir — a hallmark of ancient Greek theater, mixed with contemporary dance. The performance re-envisions the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as a call to marginalized artists. Staged among sculptures from antiquity, and moving through the galleries and courtyards of the Getty Center, the story picks up where the ancient tale left off as Eurydice descends into the underworld to contemplate its infrastructure and inhabitants.
Eurydice: mecca vazie andrews
Persephone: Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs
Orpheus: Laena Geronimo
Chorus of Spirits: Jessica Basta, Jiha Lee, Rachel Mason, Tany Ling
Chorus of Stones: Annie Gimas, Alison
Fung, Cortney Alexander, Cristine Tatomer, Dai Janai Lopez
Choreography: mecca vazie andrews
Libretto & score: Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs
Costume by 69
Created with support from Sarah Williams/Women’s Center for Creative Work and Beth Pickens
Photos by Sarah Waldorf
