Four dancers in bright unitards are twisting, gliding and strutting their way through an airy gallery in Minneapolis. They're former members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and they're ...

NEW YORK-- Dance lovers tired of being told when to look, and what to look at can always count on Merce Cunningham for a breath of freedom. The 88-year-old choreographer, whose career is being ...

Merce Cunningham, one of America’s most influential choreographers, died Sunday at age 90, The New York Times reports. The newspaper says he appeared in every performance by his Merce Cunningham Dance ...

This workshop explores the practical and philosophical aspects of using chance procedures to develop choreographic material. Participants are introduced to Merce Cunningham's use of chance operations ...

Recycling the readymade: Marcel Duchamp and the rendez-vous in Walkaround Time -- Summerspace: the body in writing -- Nine permanent emotions and Sixteen Dances: drama in Cunningham -- "Passion in ...

Merce Cunningham is on the line, calling from his loft in New York City. The modern-dance pioneer has just launched into a discussion of how he used chance to revolutionize dance composition, when his ...

He’s been at this for a while, but even after more than 50 years before the public, there remains something weird and wonderful about Merce Cunningham’s dance pieces. His troupe rehearses without ...