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 ...
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 ...
Four dancers in bright unitards are twisting, gliding and strutting their way through an airy gallery in Minneapolis. They're former members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and they're ...
As usual there was no planned connection (one gathers) between set, sound and dance. The dancers were lightly warming up on stage as the audience came in - that’s not something I remember before, and ...
Dance, by its very nature, is the most ephemeral of all arts. How can it be saved for the enlightenment or pleasure of future generations of both dancers and audiences? In dance, there is no official ...
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 ...
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) ...
The company winds down its Legacy Tour with a stop at BAM, before its farewell at the Park Avenue Armory at year’s end. The Brooklyn appearances mark the last opportunity for American audiences to see ...
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 ...
Merce Cunningham is shutting down his world-famous dance company -- after he dies. That may sound like a dog-bites-man story, but in fact it’s the most surprising and significant piece of ...
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 ...