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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event,” celebrating the legacy of choreographer Merce Cunningham on the date of his birth — April 16 — is likely to turn out to be a heady mix of all three. “It’s ...

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 ...

Baryshnikov Arts will present a fall season of dance, music, and digital performances beginning September 20 with the encore of MERCE / MISHA / MORE, a film celebrating decades of friendship, mutual ...

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 ...

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 ...