The documentary If the Dancer Dances follows the Stephen Petronio Company as they put their own spin on one of Cunningham's most celebrated works. Cunningham proves a ...
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 ...
With Merce Cunningham, she forged one of the great partnerships in dance history. She later recounted those years in an incisive, unsparing memoir. Carolyn Brown in 1966. Early on, she and Merce ...
Several American dance critics began to review Cunningham’s work respectfully in the late 1950s and early ’60s, even when it perplexed them, which was most of the time. But John Martin, a longtime ...
Performances in N.Y.C. A Trisha Brown company tour recalls a time when Rauschenberg, one of the country’s most influential artists, was changing and being changed by American dance. Members of the ...
“Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event,” celebrating the legacy of choreographer Merce Cunningham on the date of his birth — April 16 — is likely to turn out to be a heady mix of all three. “It’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
Do not e-mail Merce Cunningham. Yes, he's an "avant" in the avant-garde who has famously embraced technology, including state-of-the-art choreographic software. But the rest of the G4 laptop he ...