Open Score by Robert Rauschenberg

- a legendary series of theater, dance, music and performances at the New York 69th Regiment Armory in 1966. Participants were 10 New York artists:

Robert Rauschenberg
John Cage
David Tudor
Yvonne Rainer
Robert Whitman
Steve Paxton
Alex Hay
Deborah Hay
Lucinda Childs
Öyvind Fahlström

The artists worked with 30 engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories to create performances that incorporated new technology.

The DVDs – one on each artist’s performance - will be released sequentially over the next two years with the initial publication of the series: Open Score , available now, followed by the second in the series: John Cage - Variations VII, available later this year.

9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering is recognized as a major artistic event of the 1960s. The performances represented the culmination of a period of extraordinary creative energy in art, dance and music in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and they also pointed to the future, as artists began to use new technology in their work. 9 Evenings was organized by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver, then a research scientist at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was held at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City from October 13-23, 1966. Using archival film footage and original sound recordings, the 9 Evenings films reconstruct each artist's performance as fully as possible; they also contain new interviews with artists, engineers and performers to illuminate the artistic, technical and historical aspects of the works."by Robert Rauschenberg "OPEN SCORE by Robert Rauschenberg is the first in series of 10 DVDs memorializing 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering