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 ...

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: Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part I": MoCA's institutional toast to the legendary choreographer's career marks the first U.S. museum show since 1997 to focus on Cunningham's ...

Each piece is an arrangement of material drawn from larger works choreographed by Merce Cunningham, offering an opportunity to revisit and reimagine iconic work spanning five decades. This is the ...

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 ...

The famed New York-based experimental theater troupe Wooster Group heads to the Walker Art Center in February, highlighting its 2025-26 performing arts season. The roster also encompasses commissions ...

Timing, as they say, is everything. When I contacted North Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) recently, it was just to make arrangements to see “Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge,” ...

When Cornell senior dance lecturer Jim Self heard the news of Merce Cunningham’s death, he was unmoored. “As a teacher, choreographer and person, Merce has been very imprinted on me. I knew he wasn’t ...

NEW YORK — On a recent afternoon, in a big studio at New York City Center, dancer Melissa Toogood presented her class with a puzzle. With the clear, direct energy of someone walking down the street, ...

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 ...