Merce Cunningham shifted modern dance on its axis. Now, ten years after his death, and 100 years since his birth, London ’s Barbican has celebrated the choreographers legacy with a fittingly ...

About two months after celebrating his 90th birthday, venerable American choreographer Merce Cunningham has unveiled a "living legacy" plan to preserve his life's work.

The Merce Cunningham Dance Company was founded in 1953 by the choreographer and his partner, the composer John Cage, at Black Mountain College, in North Carolina. Sixteen years later, the director ...

Deborah Hay recalled her first views of Cunningham and his company in 1961: “I came from a conventional dance background: I’d studied ballet, tap, toe, modern — conventional and wonderful.

And Merce was always ready to embrace new technology, be it video, computers on which he choreographed, or iPods. He didn’t understand most of this, himself, but that only egged him on.

This coincided with the last performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, which closed on December 31, 2011. Merce died in 2009. I was sitting at the Brooklyn Academy of Music watching ...

Alla Kovgan’s “Cunningham” is a documentary that stages excerpts from some of Merce Cunningham’s most representative dances in 3D, and these 3D dances take up about one third of the film ...

The revolutionary art of Merce Cunningham, the great modern-dance choreographer, looks as singular and even futuristic now, in his centennial year, as it must have 50 and 60 years ago.

Organizing “Night of 100 Solos” in L.A. — a performance that included 25 dancers and 100 solos across 90 minutes — was a massive puzzle, said Andrea Weber, a member of the Merce Cunningham ...