She wrote about Jerome Robbins, Antony Tudor, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, post-modern dance, and Fred Astaire, but Balanchine and his dancers became her obsession, her art ...

In any city, there are the paved roads, the defined lanes, the proper ways to get from A to B — and then there are the unplanned routes, impressions in the grass left by feet that have ...

Merce Cunningham’s technique ... It emphasizes the use of breath, fluidity of the torso, and quick, rhythmic footwork. Postmodern dance, including the works of Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer, ...

Groundbreaking choreographer Rudy Perez, a pioneer of 1960s postmodern dance ... Perez studied with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham in the 1950s, as well as Mary Anthony, but found his voice ...

I grew up in Sausalito in Marin County and learned that you [Simone Forti] also worked with postmodern dancer ... I took classes at the Merce Cunningham studio with [musicologist] Robert Ellis ...

The postmodern performer is Austin's gift ... In 1961, Hay became fascinated leading modern dance innovator Merce Cunningham, who created time-space experiments with composer John Cage.

She also occasionally performed in dance works by such choreographers as Meredith Monk, Simone Forti and Kenneth King, who were at the forefront of the postmodern dance movement, which Dr. Banes d ...

Two years later he was dancing in Merce Cunningham ... mostly unnoticed: kids. Postmodern dancers broke not just from the formalism of classic nineteenth-century ballet but also from the heightened ...

Like the sociopolitical world, the American dance world is in a time of profound and fragile change. Merce Cunningham died a decade ago ... s score sources African American spirituals, jazz and ...

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 ...