New York City-based Tom Gold Dance will present Tom Gold Dance Founder and Director Tom Gold's Traveling West, Thursday, July 11 at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Making its first appearance at Cooper Hewitt, the Company is one of several groups participating in the 2019 Cocktails at Cooper Hewitt, the annual performance series held in the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden, one of the largest enclosed museum gardens in New York City.

A reference to the Museum’s own cross-disciplinary focus on climate change and other ecological issues through the ongoing Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial exhibit, Traveling West—set to music of John Zorn—is inspired by pastoral rhythms—from the swaying of wheat fields to the syncopated drops of rainfall to the blooming cycle of flora—and other elements of nature. Currently scheduled to appear are Michael Sean Breeden, Evelyn Kocack, Michael Holden, and Abigail Mentzer.