LOS ANGELES—Performance legend Rachel Rosenthal plans to celebrate her 83rd birthday on Saturday with an art auction to benefit her nonprofit dance group, the Rachel Rosenthal Company, which she established in 1989 to share her Doing by Doing technique with audiences and dancers around the world.

The list of works, which will be sold off at Track 16 Gallery, includes pieces by names like Robert Rauschenberg, Eleanor Antin, Lita Albuqueque, Judy Baca, John Baldessari, and Ed Moses, among others. In total, 83 works will be available to bidders, who will also have the opportunity to hear music by Amy Knoles from the California E.A.R. Unit and Jean Paul Monsché of the Mad Alsacians.

“I have spent the greater part of this decade handpicking and nurturing a new company of gifted performers,” Rosenthal explains, saying that she hopes that work will continue for years to come. She also says that she has the ultimate “goal of establishing an in-house company that will present an ongoing series of totally improvised performances, one weekend a month here in my studio space, and to make this company a permanent installation.”

Rosenthal became active in the California arts scene in the 1950s, working as a dancer for the late choreographer Merce Cunningham and collaborating with artists that included Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. She was also, for various stretches of time, a student of Jean Louis Barrault, Hans Hoffman, and Erwin Piscator.