This Saturday, the Beach Sessions Dance Series, now marking its ninth year, presented a new arrangement of Merce Cunningham’s “Beach Birds” (1991) and a “response” by Sarah Michelson. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Merce Cunningham Dance Company was founded in 1953 by the choreographer and his partner, the composer John Cage, at Black Mountain College, in North Carolina. Sixteen years later, the director of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham, credited by many with revolutionizing visual and performing arts, has died at age 90, his foundation and dance company said on ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Merce Cunningham, who passed away Sunday at the age of 90, was a ...

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) ...

Some years ago I took a beginners class at your West Village studio and it kicked my ass. Although the steps weren’t so far off from classical ballet, which I’ve studied for many years, I felt awkward ...

Merce Cunningham, the avant-garde dancer and choreographer who revolutionized modern dance by creating works of pure movement divorced from storytelling and even from their musical accompaniment, has ...

Merce Cunningham, the American choreographer who was among a handful of 20th-century figures to make dance a major art and a major form of theater, died Sunday night [July 26th]. He was 90 and lived ...

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. By Brian Seibert and George Etheredge ...