Merce Cunningham Dance Company brings its farewell tour to the Eisenhower Theater for performances at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The Kennedy Center, 2700 F. St. NW. www.kennedy-center.org . 800 ...

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Merce Cunningham: Dance at the Edge Considered by many the greatest living choreographer, Merce Cunningham's career began with Martha Graham and spans 60 years of innovations in dance and music.

Remembering Choreographer And Dancer Merce Cunningham Cunningham, who died in 2009, would have been 100 on April 16. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1985 about his unconventional approach to dance, in ...

Petronio's experimental dance company recently decided to honor one of the most revolutionary figures in the late 20th century dance world, Merce Cunningham (1919-2009), by restaging his seminal ...

As the dance world marks the passing of a gentle titan, those who had the privilege of proximity – the dancers and teachers who learned from Merce Cunningham and, in turn, carved out their own ...

This coincided with the last performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, which closed on December 31, 2011. Merce died in 2009. I was sitting at the Brooklyn Academy of Music watching ...

The Merce Cunningham Dance Company was founded in 1953 by the choreographer and his partner, the composer John Cage, at Black Mountain College, in North Carolina. Sixteen years later, the director ...

Merce Cunningham (right) and John Cage, his dance and life partner. (Douglas Jeffrey)A 58-year journey is coming to an end. From now through New Year’s Eve, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company ...

Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance. ... At 82, Cunningham is still making new work for the dance company he formed at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, in the summer of 1953.