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 ...

In modern dance, even more than in most art genres, each generation of practitioners has rebelled against the one before. By 1960, a canon of top-tier American modern dance choreographers was widely ...

Do not e-mail Merce Cunningham. Yes, he's an "avant" in the avant-garde who has famously embraced technology, including state-of-the-art choreographic software. But the rest of the G4 laptop he ...

Douglas Dunn has been making dances since 1971. His choreography has earned acclaim and awards, but presenters don’t call as frequently as they once did. That helps explains why, when Dunn was asked ...

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 ...

Step into a century of genre-blending creativity with Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) and Merce Cunningham Trust’s (MCT) Dancing with Bob: Rauschenberg, Brown & Cunningham Onstage. To celebrate the ...

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 ...

More of an art- or archival collection than a typical book, Cunnigham's recently reissued Changes gathers sketches, notes, photographs, programs, and all other manner of ephemera in a creative package ...