The influence of the dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919–2009) looms so large that the current tribute to him spans not just multiple departments of one museum, but two entire museums in ...

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Merce Cunningham died before I finished cutting my film, Craneway Event. The idea had been to present it alongside his 90th birthday celebrations on 16 April last year, when he was due to premiere ...

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Join 24,000 of your neighbors and stay in tune with the Triangle. Sign up On Thursday, the ADF season opens with a retrospective program called “ICONS” in which three companies perform historical ...

Merce Cunningham was considered one of the finest dancers and choreographers of all time. His work defied convention, abandoning narrative in favor of pure movement; using music as a separate but ...

Merce Cunningham's dauntingly beautiful ballets beg for explication, but don't look to the choreographer for answers. At 85, the avuncular sage of modern dance isn't about to impose a narrative on his ...

Merce Cunningham, the Centralia-born dancer who became one of the prime movers of the 20th-century art world, launched his career from the studios of Seattle’s Cornish College. “He had come to Cornish ...

Merce Cunningham (1973) / Don McDonagh -- Twenty years of Merce Cunningham's dance (1982) / Richard Kostelanetz -- Grace and clarity (1944) / John Cage -- Early reviews -- Space, time and dance (1952) ...