What they began to make was later labeled postmodern. Between these generations came Merce Cunningham (1919-2009), whose centennial is being celebrated this year. Modernism had taken dance where ...

The idea that “‘anything is possible’–that was the original flavor of the stuff that Merce did.” Indeed, looking back, Cunningham created the first postmodern dance. His performers ...

On Thursday, the ADF season opens with a retrospective program called “ICONS” in which three companies perform historical works by three modern-dance legends: Paul Taylor, Martha Graham, and ...

Do not e-mail Merce Cunningham. Yes ... "All of the experimentation that became the postmodern dance movement was supported by the philosophy he introduced." Yet Cunnningham's style remains ...

A tap dancer growing up, the striking, hollow-faced innovator of postmodern movement is ... one of the quirks that came to define the Merce Cunningham Dance Company was that the dancers sometimes ...

Merce Cunningham Dance Company rehearsing Travelogue (1977), City Center ... but also over the course of post-war visual art and the interdisciplinary turn that marks postmodern artistic practices.

Paxton has worked with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and ... and will end with a brunch and panel discussion about post-modern dance at noon Sunday. In his performances, Paxton will improvise ...

The 2019 edition of The Bridge Project is a bicoastal collaboration and co-production with the Merce Cunningham ... figure of modern and postmodern dance. As teachers of Cunningham's repertory ...