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 ...

In modern dance, even more than in most art genres, each generation of practitioners has rebelled against the one before. By 1960, a canon of top-tier American modern dance choreographers was widely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cunningham is centered in the book by Marianne Preger-Simon, which approaches her subject multiple times attempting to catch him off guard or see through his professional demeanor. Preger describes ...

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 ...

The famed New York-based experimental theater troupe Wooster Group heads to the Walker Art Center in February, highlighting its 2025-26 performing arts season. The roster also encompasses commissions ...

John Scott's irish modern dance theatre present two new dance pieces this Spring. Iconic choreographer Merce Cunningham's 'Four Solos', choreographic event of four solos performed by 3 outstanding ...

his strength lay not in singing but in helping manage the group, mainly by selling its records at concerts and developing contacts with alumni interested in the chorus’s activities. Since then, arts ...