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 ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. 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. Members of the ...

It’s just before eight o’clock when the creepy, atmospheric music begins echoing up through four stories of darkness. The only sign of life on display inside the Moore building is a young man slumped ...

Pioneering modern choreographer Merce Cunningham stripped dance down to a searing clarity, collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg to Radiohead, and was known to throw I ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...