Topic: Merce Cunningham

Best (and worst) Dance of 2011

THE BEST Sarah Michelson Devotion is an act. In an art form with few rewards, faith isn't just a loose term in dance, it's what draws you back to...

By Chance

This week, Joan Acocella writes about the American choreographer Merce Cunningham, who died in 2009, at the age of ninety, and whose company...

Culture Desk

Food is sex you can talk about, a wise friend said recently. (In Seattle, where cake-baking is the new S. & M., food is also apparently sex you...
Given Merce Cunningham's lifelong capacity for reinvention, it is no surprise that he is posthumously pushing the Walker Art Center to rethink how...
Merce Cunningham stood at the nexus of classicism and modernism the way Russian-born choreographer Michel Fokine stood at the nexus of classicism...

Correspondence

Story with gestures" - Suite for Five rehearsal break at the Cunningham studio in Westbeth in 1972. Left to right: Carolyn Brown, Merce Cunningham...
* Earlier this year in August, I watched choreographer Jose Navas create a new dance work for Ballet BC. I spent about three days over three weeks...
* Below is an earlier version of the main story about choreographer Jose Navas that appeared in The Vancouver Sun on Saturday, Nov. 13. In one long...

Dance

Despite the vicissitudes of living in an awakened world following the 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S., most plans in place for dance went forward in 2002. New York City Ballet (NYCB) completed its winter season with little of major note ...
How did Merce Cunningham collaborate with artists? Mary Lisa Burns, Director of Education at the Merce Cunningham Studio and a longtime teacher at the Studio, spoke with Atlas about the two artists' unique partnership. I didn't know much about dance, but ...