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by Laura Molzahn
There's been more talk than usual lately about dead choreographers, due to the passing last summer of Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch. A few weeks ago in the New York Times, Arthur Lubow used Cunningham as a jumping-off point to wring his hands at length over the evanescence of dancing and the difficulty of notating...
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Merce Cunningham, in wheelchair, talks with his dancers in Tacita Dean's film, “Craneway Event,” which records three days of rehearsal of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
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From story.chicagochronicle.com
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The Park Avenue Armory occupies most of a New York City block. Its main hall measures 55,000 square feet, and the curve of its roof soars to 80 feet. Without the little booths that stuff it during antiques shows, but full of peopleclumped or wandering singlyit resembles as ...
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From villagevoice.com
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Leave it to Merce Cunningham to make a cavernous drill hall in the Park Avenue Armory feel almost like a cathedral. About 2,500 came to worship, so to speak, and pay homage, on Wednesday as the Cunningham Dance Foundation offered an expansive, absolutely appropriate and comprehensive memorial to this unique and groundbreaking choreographer, who died at the age of 90 on July 26. ---The five hours of music and dance by many generations of his...
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From nypress.com
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Dance Review | Merce CunninghamNew York TimesThere was more than enough room for choreography to be danced on three stages, with musicians performing in a balcony. The program began (at 4:30 pm) with ...Cunningham Remembered Through Dance and MusicWNYCThe Merce Cunningham MemorialNew York Pressall 4 news articles »
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From news.google.com
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MONTREAL.- How to choreograph silence. That was
the challenge issued by artist Tacita Dean to the great American choreographer
Merce Cunningham, who revolutionized modern dance. Through January 3, 2010, the
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal presents the exhibition Tacita
Dean. Merce Cunningham, the American choreographer who was among a
handful of 20th-century figures to make dance a major art and a major form of
theater. He died at...
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From artknowledgenews.com
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Tacita Dean’s film “Craneway Event” records three days of rehearsals by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Richmond, Calif., before the choreographer’s death.
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From nytimes.com
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Tacita Dean's Craneway Event "records three days of rehearsals by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Craneway Pavilion," a converted automobile factory near San Francisco, about a year before Cunningham's death. The documentary film reminds Alastair Macaulay of Degas's backstage-at-the-ballet paintings....
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From artsjournal.com
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NEW YORK, NY.- On November 10, 2009 Christie’s
will pay tribute to two of the most influential American artists of the 20th
century in its Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, offering Property
from the Collection of John Cage and Merce Cunningham Sold to
Benefit the Merce Cunningham Trust. The sale of Property from the
Collection of John Cage and Merce Cunningham Sold to Benefit the Merce
Cunningham Trust will present collectors...
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From artknowledgenews.com
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Merce Cunningham in the Park Avenue Armory; Christopher Wheeldon at City Center If you wanted to know what happened at the Merce Cunningham memorial a week ago Wednesday in the Park Avenue Armory, you could get a thousand answers. NO EULOGIES FOR MERCE: The mood was upbeat; the crowd milled around the three stages, creating a performance of its own.“A dancer has to find a way to begin again each day. . . . It’s about how do you...
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