Editing Piano Phase (section)

==Performance==
[[File:Peter Aidu.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Peter Aidu plays ''Piano Phase'' on two pianos]]
The piece is played by two pianists without breaks at any stage. A typical performance may last around fifteen to twenty minutes. Reich later adapted the piece for two [[marimba]]s, typically played an octave lower than the original.

In dance, the piece was used in 1982 by the Belgian choreographer [[Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker]] as part of one of her work ''[[Fase]]'', which became a cornerstone of [[contemporary dance]].

In 2004, a college student named [[Rob Kovacs]] gave the first solo performance of the piece at the [[Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music]]. Kovacs played both piano parts at the same time on two different pianos. Reich was in the audience for this world premiere performance.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnQdP03iYIo Video recording of the performance</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110719154841/http://moe.bw.edu/~sgreen/expon/archives/20040331/CL33104.pdf An article from Baldwin-Wallace's newspaper, The Exponent, documenting the performance (page 7)</ref> Others, including [[Peter Aidu]], [[Leszek Możdżer]],<ref>[http://krakow.gazeta.pl/krakow/1,44425,10311026,Final_Sacrum_Profanum__Muzyczne_i_laserowe_fajerwerki.html .Handzlik T. (2011). Finał Sacrum Profanum: Muzyczne i laserowe fajerwerki. ''Gazeta Wyborcza''. <accessed 2011-12-02> ] - review of the final concert of the Sacrum Profanum Festival, Cracow, 11-17/09/2011, including Steve Reich in audience and on stage. In Polish.</ref> and [[Rachel Flowers]]<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211206/jG0eKE1LVgE Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131108010652/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG0eKE1LVgE&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG0eKE1LVgE| title = Rachel Flowers - Steve Reich - Piano Phase - Youngest performer ever! | website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> have also given solo performances of this piece.

On January 28, 2013, the soloists of the [https://totnm.org/ Theatre of New Music] ensemble Vasily Igonin and Alexey Popov performed this work for the first time in Saratov in the Small Hall of the Conservatory, and on April 25 they repeated the performance of this work at the concert "The Edges of Modernity" in the Great Hall of the Saratov Conservatory.

In 2016, a performance given by harpsichordist [[Mahan Esfahani]] at the [[Kölner Philharmonie]] was disrupted by audience members who clapped, whistled and shouted "speak German" during the first minutes of the performance, which had to be abandoned.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dw.com/en/cologne-stunned-by-audience-catcalls-at-iranian-harpsichordists-concert/a-19086046|title=Cologne ′stunned′ by audience catcalls at Iranian harpsichordist′s concert - News - DW.COM - 01.03.2016|work=DW.COM}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/iranian-musician-forced-to-stop-cologne-concert-after-audience-members-jeer-and-shout-speak-german-a6909066.html | title=Iranian musician forced to stop Cologne concert after audience members jeer and shout 'speak German' | work=The Independent | author=Lizzie Dearden | date=2016-03-03 | accessdate=2018-10-28}}</ref>
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