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’s status within modern dance began to change when he and his company taught and performed for four summers, 1958-61, at the American Dance Festival at Connecticut College. Even so, Gordon ...
The Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) with the Merce Cunningham Trust will celebrate the Centennial of the iconoclastic American artist Robert Rauschenberg with a national tour dedicated to his ...
Dancers re-create Merce Cunningham’s 1979 “Travelogue” and premiere a new work. Explore the connection between past and present in contemporary dance with Merce Cunningham’s “Travelogue,” last ...
The Trisha Brown Dance Company is presenting a stellar double bill of Rauschenberg-designed works by Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown. By Gia Kourlas Dance Reflections, a festival that pushes ...
A meeting of Students for Cunningham in the studio (photos by author) A small group of dance students recently gathered on the floor of the Cunningham Studio to try to save their dance program from an ...
NEW YORK — On a recent afternoon, in a big studio at New York City Center, dancer Melissa Toogood presented her class with a puzzle. With the clear, direct energy of someone walking down the street, ...