But Cornish Dance Theater ... And on Oct. 24, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company itself will come here to make one last stop on its “Legacy Tour” at the Paramount. Cunningham, a giant of ...

Cunningham left the Cornish School in 1938 to join Martha Graham ... Cunningham and they toured performing together. When the Merce Cunningham Dance Company was formed in 1953, Cage became ...

Merce Cunningham, the Centralia-born dancer who became one of the prime movers of the 20th-century art world, launched his career from the studios of Seattle’s Cornish College. “He had come to ...

Merce Cunningham, arguably the greatest ... but Cunningham studied acting in the Cornish School of Fine Arts in Seattle, soon switching his major from theater to dance. There he met composer ...

Merce Cunningham was a genius ... The two met in the late 1930s in Seattle, at Cornish College of the Arts, where Cunningham studied dance and Cage worked as an accompanist, playing the piano ...

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 ...

The great modern dance choreographer Merce Cunningham died yesterday at 90 ... Wash., and attended Cornish School in Seattle) and famous, both for his work with Martha Graham and after 1953 ...

Merce (pronounced Murss) Cunningham was born in Centralia, Washington, the son of a lawyer. He studied tap and ballroom dancing as a child, then attended the Cornish School, an arts school ...

Merce (pronounced "Murss") Cunningham was born in Centralia, Wash., the son of a lawyer. He studied tap and ballroom dancing as a child, then attended the Cornish School, an arts school ...

NEW YORK — Choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham was hailed Monday as ... then attended the Cornish Arts School in Seattle after high school. In a 1999 interview, he recalled that he wanted ...

Cunningham died on Sunday at his Manhattan home of natural causes ...