What we will see when the Merce Cunningham Dance Company performs at ... For a piece called “Canfield,” we went to his loft on Houston Street, and he sprayed us with this special paint that ...

Assembled by Laura Kuhn, the director of the John Cage Trust and a trustee of the Merce Cunningham Trust ... snapshots of the couple’s 18th Street loft, which looks just as you’d expect ...

Choreographer Merce Cunningham shared these memories of his ... and two or three weeks later I went to his loft to see it. There was this star-shaped object made of materials from the street ...

The Browns found a loft on Third Avenue between Ninth and ... of this very complex and important artistic creation–Merce Cunningham and Company. Take, for example, Brown’s description of ...

For more than 50 years, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company surprised audiences by rethinking the relationship between music and movement — even what dancers could do. On New Year's Eve ...

I first came to know Merce Cunningham as his student, in the nineteen-sixties. The last time I saw him was on his birthday a few years back. He had a little dinner at his home, a top-floor loft on ...

Choreographer Merce Cunningham died on July 26, at age 90. Known as "one of the great iconoclasts in 20th-century art," Cunningham revolutionized modern dance by rejecting certain basic dance ...

See About archive blog posts. The tributes to choreographer Merce Cunningham, who died in New York at 90 Sunday evening, have been pouring in, and they are glorious. I think we have consensus on ...

By Ellen Jacobs “Computers are the future of dance,” Merce Cunningham announced to me at his company’s Christmas party in 1995. “People just don’t understand the future possibilities of ...

In a new documentary about Merce Cunningham, filmmaker Alla Kovgan attempts a delicate dance. On the one hand, “Cunningham” stages many of the pioneering choreographer’s abstract works ...

The title of Charles Atlas’ new documentary on Merce Cunningham may be taken quite literally: his mother described his dancing down the aisle of the church the family attended in Centralia ...

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 ...