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- Born: April 16, 1919
- Birth place: Centralia, Washington
- Alma maters: George Washington University and Cornish School of Fine and Applied Arts
- Died: July 26, 2009
- Joined the Lester Horton Dance Theatre in 1938
- Merce Cunningham Dance Company founded in 1952
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Merce Cunningham was a renowned choreographer and dancer who founded the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Cunningham died on July 26, 2009, at the age of 90. A cause of death was not immediately announced.http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/merce-cunningham-dies/
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Merce Cunningham News
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Can Modern Dance Be Preserved?
Merce Cunningham looked to Dance Forms, a system that gave three dimensions to the movement. Whether he chose to use Dance Forms as a tool of preservation ... (November 27, 2009)New York Times -
Light, Birds, Action! Cunningham and Company in Rehearsal
Merce Cunningham, in wheelchair, talks with his dancers in Tacita Dean's film, “Craneway Event,” which records three days of rehearsal of the Merce ... (November 04, 2009)New York Times -
Performa 09: Tacita Dean and Merce Cunningham
Her second collaboration with the choreographer Merce Cunningham is a slow-moving documentary (100 minutes) of a rehearsal in the cavernous, many-windowed ... (November 10, 2009)New York Times -
Can Modern Dance be Preserved?
By ARTHUR LUBOW On July 27, the day after the choreographer Merce Cunningham died, there was an open house at the West Village studio in which his dance ... (November 06, 2009)New York Times
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Merce Cunningham Links Powered by Google
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Terry Teachout on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company - WSJ.com
Can Merce Cunningham save his work by killing his company?online.wsj.com
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Merce Cunningham Blogs
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Merce Cunningham Dies - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
Merce Cunningham, a giant figure in the world of modern dance, died Sunday night at his home.artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com -
Performa 09: Tacita Dean and Merce Cunningham - ArtsBeat Blog ...
Tacita Dean's sleek, gorgeously majestic "Craneway Event," a 16mm color film is unexpectedly hypnotic. (November 10, 2009)artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com -
Adventures of a Tribal Dancer....: Merce Cunningham quote
Merce Cunningham quote. "You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that sin... (November 19, 2009)thetribaldancer.blogspot.com -
Merce Cunningham : Points in Space 1986
This is the critically acclaimed collaboration for the screen by choreographer Merce Cunningham, composer John Cage, and filmmaker Elliot Caplan. The first half features BBC's documentary: interviews with Cunningham, Cage and ... (November 24, 2009)modisti.com
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