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Dec 18, 2019 · Yes, we have video. Right now, at the Museum of Modern Art, you can watch Cunningham dance his 1964 Antic Meet, and it is of course a pleasure to watch him do so.
Sep 21, 2021 · When a choreographer dies, the survival of the work is always in peril. When Merce Cunningham died, in 2009, the risk felt especially acute. In the tradition of modern dance, the repository of any ...
In the 1940s, Merce Cunningham and his life partner, composer John Cage, developed a radical new concept: music and dance could exist independently within the same performance. The dancers’ movements would no longer be tied to the rhythms, mood, and structure of music.
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Apr 12, 2024 · Merce Cunningham (born April 16, 1919, Centralia, Washington, U.S.—died July 26, 2009, New York, New York) was an American modern dancer and choreographer who developed new forms of abstract dance movement. Cunningham began to study dance at 12 years of age.
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Merce Cunningham, who died on July 26 aged 90, was a colossus of 20th-century choreography; his career in dance, which lasted more than 60 years, began when, as a Seattle-based dance student in 1939, he was invited by Martha Graham to join her company in New York. ^ "Merce Cunningham Dance Company". November 9, 2017.
- 1938–2009
- July 26, 2009 (aged 90), New York City, New York, U.S.
- Mercier Philip Cunningham, April 16, 1919, Centralia, Washington, U.S.
- John Cage
Apr 5, 2019 · Remembering Choreographer And Dancer Merce Cunningham Cunningham, who died in 2009, would have been 100 on April 16.
Jul 28, 2009 · Mr. Cunningham, who died Sunday at the age of 90, was acknowledged widely as one of the three most influential American dance makers of the 20th century, alongside George Balanchine and Martha ...
