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 ...

Merce Cunningham, dance’s avant doyen, makes his first-ever appearance in Miami next week, kicking off a citywide bash honoring the pioneer choreographer’s life and work. Celebrating the collaborative ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several American dance critics began to review Cunningham’s work respectfully in the late 1950s and early ’60s, even when it perplexed them, which was most of the time. But John Martin, a longtime ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...