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23 January 2013

Merce lives

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Merce Cunningham dances being staged around the world is a good thing. [...]

4 January 2012

Dance writer Robert Johnson on the demise of Merce Cunningham Dance Company

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When Merce Cunningham Dance Company, rather its board of directors, announced the closure of one of the greatest performing arts ensembles in dance history, audiences responded with mute acceptance. Dance critic Robert Johnson reacts differently. [...]

29 June 2011

What to feed a U.S. dance company overseas

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You’re on an international dance tour, and it’s a pretty small life. I know this because I just had the great good fortune to accompany Lula Washington Dance Theatre in China last month.

Life boils down to: What time in the morning do you have to put your luggage in hotel lobby? Hey, what’s [...]

29 June 2011

Merce Cunningham Dance Company journeys to Jerusalem and Moscow

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A special report from arts•meme foreign correspondent Anna Finke, traveling with Merce Cunningham Dance Company. By day, Anna works as MCDC’s wardrobe supervisor and photographer. She blogs at Finke-Ink. Anna writes first on visiting Israel:

We were all excited to take in this new country and the Jerusalem Season of Culture was a wonderful host. [...]

17 March 2011

Minneapolis gets Merce Cunningham Dance Company collection

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The Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, a long-time patron of Merce Cunningham Dance Company, has purchased the entire collection of Cunningham artistic collaborators across visual and performing arts. Collection includes names like Rauschenberg, Cage, Stella, Lichtenstein, and Warhol. [...]

11 February 2011

To Ann Arbor for Merce Cunningham concert

We’re flying to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to enjoy a performance on the Cunningham company Legacy Tour. [...]

24 May 2010

Neil Greenberg chats about Roaratorio

“You really see people dancing. It’s especially clear that this was a concern of Merce’s. There’s a lot of humanity in this work.”

Thus choreographer Neil Greenberg remembers Roaratorio, the Merce Cunningham work dating from 1983 that will be restaged at Disney Concert Hall next weekend. 

A member of Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1979 [...]