When Merce Cunningham first started presenting his work in art galleries, pulling apart dances and scrambling their sections, it was a radical thing to do to dance qua dance. But in the early postwar ...

Cunningham traces Merce Cunningham's artistic evolution over three decades of risk and discovery (1944-1972), from his early years as a struggling dancer in postwar New York to his emergence as one of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Wednesday afternoon and evening, dozens of dancers young and old, ...

An open studio-style showing of choreographic studies generated by students in response to Irish Dance, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and James Joyce as part of the spring Atelier course “ROARATORIO: ...

According to the late modern-dance titan Merce Cunningham, music, dance, and art were all of a piece, not separate entities—a belief he put into practice through collaborations with such storied peers ...

The plot never thickens in a Merce Cunningham dance, at least not in the traditional narrative sense. More interested in movement for its own sake, the pioneering American choreographer jettisoned ...

Celebrating Robert Rauschenberg's 100th birthday requires a performance event as singular and imaginative as the artist himself. With vital funding from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, The Art ...