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 ...

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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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.

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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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Guest presenter Tony Thomas II, dancer and choreographer, discusses Merce Cunningham. One of the great avant-garde figures of modern dance, Merce ...

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 ...