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When Merce Cunningham first started presenting his work in art galleries, pulling apart dances and scrambling their sections, it was a radical thing to do to dance qua dance. But in the early postwar ...
Unexpectedly, as I began to watch the public performances of Merce Cunningham's choreography in conjunction with the exhibition, his work started to grow on me. Merce Cunningham Dance Company ...
An open studio-style showing of choreographic studies generated by students in response to Irish Dance, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and James Joyce as part of the spring Atelier course “ROARATORIO: ...
On a recent morning in November, the winter sun beamed through the timeworn windows of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s Manhattan rehearsal studio, illuminating dancers as they filed through the ...
1 at Christopher St.-Sheridan Sq.; A, C, E at 14th St.; L at Eighth Ave. In 1959, Merce Cunningham introduced his technique—an uncodified, modern style emphasizing parallel movement and torso ...
You’d never mistake Merce Cunningham for a traditionalist. A tap dancer growing up, the striking, hollow-faced innovator of postmodern movement is credited with creating some of the most influential ...
Pilar Ordovas has re-opened her eponymous gallery on New York’s Upper East Side with the exhibition “Artists and Lovers.” Focusing on art from the mid-1930s to mid-70s, the show on view from November ...