Installation view of Merce Cunningham: For Camera on the High Line (image by the author for Hyperallergic) In Locale (1980), a thirty-minute film collaboration between Charles Atlas and the Merce ...
It’s just before eight o’clock when the creepy, atmospheric music begins echoing up through four stories of darkness. The only sign of life on display inside the Moore building is a young man slumped ...
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) ...
Cunningham was one of the lions of modern dance. He turned his back on the Graham/Balanchine legacy, and—along with Jerome Robbins and Paul Taylor—helped mold dance into a major contemporary art form.
This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. One of the most magical theatrical experiences of the last few seasons was the Merce Cunningham Dance Company-s residency at UCLA Live! a few years back. The ...
Today’s sad sad sad news came early: the unspeakably moving modern dance choreographer Merce Cunningham passed away last night, at age 90. There is a Portland connection here: Cunningham’s company was ...
Merce Cunningham, one of America’s most influential choreographers, died Sunday at age 90, The New York Times reports. The newspaper says he appeared in every performance by his Merce Cunningham Dance ...