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 ...

The documentary If the Dancer Dances follows the Stephen Petronio Company as they put their own spin on one of Cunningham's most celebrated works. Cunningham proves a ...

Merce Cunningham, dance’s avant doyen, makes his first-ever appearance in Miami next week, kicking off a citywide bash honoring the pioneer choreographer’s life and work. Celebrating the collaborative ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dance, by its very nature, is the most ephemeral of all arts. How can it be saved for the enlightenment or pleasure of future generations of both dancers and audiences? In dance, there is no official ...

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 ...

Join 24,000 of your neighbors and stay in tune with the Triangle. Sign up On Thursday, the ADF season opens with a retrospective program called “ICONS” in which three companies perform historical ...

Recycling the readymade: Marcel Duchamp and the rendez-vous in Walkaround Time -- Summerspace: the body in writing -- Nine permanent emotions and Sixteen Dances: drama in Cunningham -- "Passion in ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Guest presenter Tony Thomas II, dancer and choreographer, discusses Merce Cunningham. One of the great avant-garde figures of modern dance, Merce ...