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 ...

Four dancers in bright unitards are twisting, gliding and strutting their way through an airy gallery in Minneapolis. They're former members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and they're ...

Merce Cunningham was hip before his time. The choreographer’s spectacular collaborations with off-the-mainstream-grid musicians and artists such as John Cage, Bruce Nauman, and Sonic Youth, broke all ...

Merce Cunningham (1973) / Don McDonagh -- Twenty years of Merce Cunningham's dance (1982) / Richard Kostelanetz -- Grace and clarity (1944) / John Cage -- Early reviews -- Space, time and dance (1952) ...

He’s been at this for a while, but even after more than 50 years before the public, there remains something weird and wonderful about Merce Cunningham’s dance pieces. His troupe rehearses without ...

The choreographer Merce Cunningham would have turned 100 years old this week. And so his revolutionary legacy in dance was commemorated with special performances in London, New York and Los Angeles ...

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 ...

Merce Cunningham is shutting down his world-famous dance company -- after he dies. That may sound like a dog-bites-man story, but in fact it’s the most surprising and significant piece of ...

New York Theatre Ballet will present LEGENDS & VISIONARIES April 10–11 at Judson Memorial Church. The program features Merce ...

Merce Cunningham, one of America’s most influential choreographers, died Sunday at age 90, The New York Times reports. The newspaper says he appeared in every performance by his Merce Cunningham Dance ...