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 ...

Director Alla Kovgan's captivating bio-doc "Cunningham" (1919-2009) provides a hypnotic view of the fabled gay star dancer/teacher Merce Cunningham's choreography, timed to coincide with his 100th ...

Merce Cunningham, the avant-garde choreographer whose unorthodox approaches and discoveries throughout a six-decade career made him one of the most important artists of the 20th century, influencing ...

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Merce Cunningham was born in Centralia, went to Cornish College, and basically invented contemporary dance, as we know it, graduating it from Graham and Duncan into a whole new galaxy. He worked with ...

Cunningham was one of the lions of modern dance. He turned his back on the Graham/Balanchine legacy, and—along with Jerome Robbins and Paul Taylor—helped mold dance into a major contemporary art form.

Postmodern dance legend Trisha Brown choreographed the former, set to music by musician Laurie Anderson. The lesser-known 1977 work, “Travelogue,” choreographed by dancer and choreographer Merce ...

Thursday evening offered up an embarrassment of artistic riches as the Harris Theater welcomed the Trisha Brown Company in their evening program, Dancing with Bob: Rauschenberg, Brown and Cunningham ...