arts•meme arts•meme
10 June 2010

Baryshnikov backstage at REDCAT

Photos from Baryshnikov’s recent appearance with Merce Cunningham Dance Company at REDCAT in Los Angeles. [...]

7 June 2010

merce misha mashup

mischa-fotos

While researching Misha’s special admiration for Merce, I came across Baryshnikov’s photography of the Cunningham company. [...]

6 June 2010

Merce’s marvelous Irish jig

Cunningham-1.5

“It was unutterably moving to watch,” said long time company archivist David Vaughan of the historic reconstruction of “Roaratorio” (1983) that graced Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s fare-thee-well performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall this weekend. [...]

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 [...]

10 May 2010

L.A. Music Center co-commissions revival of Merce Cunningham work

Merce-roaratorio

It’s a proud fact that the Los Angeles Music Center, along with two French dance festivals, has co-commissioned a restaging of Merce Cunningham’s ORATORIO from 1986. We’ll see the work in upcoming Disney Hall performances June 2 – 4, 2010.

[...]

27 July 2009

Merce Cunningham (1919 – 2009)

It’s difficult to select a photo of Merce Cunningham. They are all so fabulous. Here’s an Annie Leibowitz portrait from 1994.

Although I reviewed the company several times, I published only two feature pieces on Merce, one in 1984 in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, and another in La Opinion in 2005.

I first studied [...]