| 单词 | Cunningham |
| 例句 | Mr. Cunningham must have salted the earth where it grew, I don’t see it any more. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He had hoped to pal around with Glenn Cunningham, but his hero proved too mature for him. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Cunningham had been racing since the fourth grade, and at the 1936 Games, he would be just short of twenty-seven. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The Cunninghams and the Coninghams married each other until the spelling of the names was academic— academic unless a Cunningham wished to jape with a Coningham over land titles and took to the law. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z One afternoon in 1938, Glenn Cunningham stood in the Los Angeles Coliseum locker room, talking with reporters after winning a race. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z By 1932, the modest, mild-tempered Cunningham, whose legs and back were covered in a twisting mesh of scars, was becoming a national sensation, soon to be acclaimed as the greatest miler in American history. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z We saw this happen time after time with Dad’s stenographers and with the cooks who followed Mrs. Cunningham. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Glenn Cunningham was there, dressed in a sharp gray suit and a bright yellow tie. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z "I think,” Jack said slowly, "that Mrs. Cunningham and Tom should do the work. They get paid for it.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Mindful of being a teenaged upstart in the company of such seasoned track deities as Jesse Owens and Glenn Cunningham, Louie curbed his coltish impulses and began growing a mustache. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z As a small child, Cunningham had been in a schoolhouse explosion that killed his brother and left Glenn with severe burns on his legs and torso. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Zamperini, Cunningham told a reporter, was more likely to crack four minutes than he was. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The reporters turned to see who Cunningham was looking at. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Mr. Cunningham, a man of uncompromising rectitude, had given her a pint free of charge for having guessed his name yesterday, one of the tiny things she adored about Maycomb: people remembered their promises. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z His record mile, run when he was seventeen, was three and a half seconds faster than Cunningham’s fastest high school mile, run when he was twenty. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Evelyn Cunningham, printing the item, commented, “He smiled and chuckled, but he was in dead earnest.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She was sitting at a table behind Mr. Cunningham’s ice cream shop, eating from a wax-paper container. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Among them was a Kansas University miler named Glenn Cunningham. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The house was too big for Tom Grieves, the handyman, and Mrs. Cunningham, the cook, to keep in order. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Most observers, including Cunningham, had long believed that it couldn’t be done. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z A couple of gestures in the central duet are surprisingly overt for Cunningham. Dance Review: Ridding a Moody Cunningham Work of Ambiguity, One Gesture at a Time 2011-02-14T23:29:10Z When Cunningham’s performance in a 1942 Martha Graham piece goes unheralded by the media, Cage writes, “Nobody recognizes Nijinsky when they see him.” The World of Dance in Letters, Locations and Clothes 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z As stripped-down as it seems, Cunningham’s choreography is extraordinarily demanding on the body and the memory. Review | ‘Merce Cunningham at 100’: Beautiful but missing a spark 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Yet though these moments are highlights, they don’t sum up the duets; every Cunningham dance contains its own contradictions. Dance Review: In the State Where It All Began, a Cunningham Farewell 2011-02-06T22:46:12Z Long joins last year's inaugural winner of the Hatchet Job prize, Adam Mars-Jones, who took the award for his excoriating dismissal of Michael Cunningham's novel By Nightfall in the Observer. Hatchet Job of the Year goes to assault on Rachel Cusk 2013-02-12T20:30:01Z But if they are supposed to be in conversation with Cage and Cunningham, they are communicating with the dead in languages that are close to mutually incomprehensible. Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Why are you interested in bringing back older Cunningham dances? ArtsBeat: Cunningham Legacy to Continue in France? 2012-03-13T10:00:46Z Yet no Cunningham dance belongs to any single category. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z “We want to be the label that gets a band like Smokey Brights to a major,” Cunningham says. Seattle’s Freakout Records to celebrate its artists with festival 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z It was during that time that Mr. Paxton met Rauschenberg, who worked closely with the Cunningham company as a designer and artistic adviser, creating the sets and costumes for “Aeon.” Steve Paxton, a Buddha of American Dance 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The 30-year-old rapper's spokeswoman Sarah Cunningham said in an email that "Lil Wayne is recovering," but did not specify what he was suffering from. Rapper Lil Wayne says he is fine after health scare 2013-03-16T01:42:55Z But Cunningham the poet refuses to let any one image stay constant. Dance Review: A Long-Absent Comedy Leaps Out for a Farewell 2011-03-06T20:22:36Z As New York City’s boomers shift from wooden toys to wooden boxes, Ms. Cunningham is hoping to ease their transition. Baby Boomers Are Drawn to Green and Eco-Friendly Funerals 2014-03-12T22:33:56Z Whereas “Giselle” or most ballets by George Balanchine come round often enough for many people to feel acquainted with them, few people have ever had the chance to become truly familiar with any Cunningham repertory. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z Dr. Cunningham, 33, is the chief academic officer for the Columbia, Conn., school district and a senior consultant with Teaching Matters, an education consulting group based in New York. Katherine Cunningham, Mark Rutledge 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z The trust was already discussing restaging Cunningham dances for the Boston museum’s exhibition. Long-Lost Merce Cunningham Work Is Reconstructed in Boston 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z In many pieces Cunningham is like his contemporaries or Harold Pinter, two of the playwrights who helped transform spoken drama as part of the Theater of the Absurd. Dance Review: A Long-Absent Comedy Leaps Out for a Farewell 2011-03-06T20:22:36Z Mrs. Altschul appeared regularly in society stories in publications like W Magazine, Vogue and The New York Sun, and in Bill Cunningham’s columns. Patricia Altschul, 78, Is the Dowager Countess of ‘Southern Charm’ 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z In 2007, the Carnegie Hall Corp. announced plans to demolish the studios for rehearsal spaces, and Mr. Cunningham left for an apartment in Midtown. Bill Cunningham, photographer of New York street fashion, dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Cunningham at that phase of his career sometimes choreographed using Life Forms dance software, and more often in experiments with his company’s young understudies. Dance Review: Cunningham Company Dances 'Nearly 902' in Montreal 2010-05-31T22:24:00Z The film unspools with the dreamlike pace of a Michael Cunningham novel, while Murray’s sardonic wit saves it – as in his previous collaboration with Coppola, Lost in Translation – from ponderousness. Rashida Jones: 'I didn’t know if I was coming or going' 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Cunningham’s sophomore album, “Who Are You Now,” earned her a Grammy nomination and an opening slot on Mandy Moore’s comeback tour. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Of those choreographers, Cunningham and Ms. Brown were among the brainiest. Trisha Brown, Choreographer and Pillar of American Postmodern Dance, Dies at 80 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z And Cunningham was a Spice Girls fan who subsequently followed Chisholm’s career as a solo artist, and had long admired her dancing and her presence. When a Spice Girl Met a Contemporary Dancer 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z But the result is a scrapbook of happier times, a feeling that’s captured, too, by the whimsical watercolor illustrations by Elisa Cunningham. Review | Cooking can be therapeutic. For Ella Risbridger, it saved her life. 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The radio show they're appearing on is "Central Sounds," hosted by Jonathan Cunningham and Rich Jensen, where OC Notes occasionally commandeers the controls. Tonight on Hollow Earth Radio: Seattle's OC Notes, Chocolate Chuck, SwampmaN 2011-06-29T17:28:05Z “Slowly, over a period of 10 or 15 years, the hat disappeared,” Mr. Cunningham said last week near his desk at The Times. Lens: Bill Cunningham: A Rare Bird's Feathers 2011-03-29T13:05:25Z Howard Cunningham owned a hardware store, was often seen reading the newspaper in his easy chair and was perpetually befuddled by the behavior of young people. Tom Bosley, ?Happy Days? Dad, Dies at 83 2010-10-20T01:32:00Z The foreshadowing can be heavy-handed, and I’m agnostic about the book’s climax, which cribs from Michael Cunningham’s “The Hours.” ‘Neon in Daylight’ Lights Up Ambivalence With Shades of Didion and Others 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Cunningham also had close relationships with other artists, including dancer Martha Graham and sculptor Ruth Asawa. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Cunningham said he had since been trying to capture this bit of what he called “true Americana” on film, and, not incidentally, to learn “what ultimately became of the leg.” Media Decoder: Movie About a Severed Leg Seeks Backers via Crowdsourcing 2013-05-19T22:28:02Z Mr. Parris wrote:” Merce Cunningham passed away two years ago on July 26th. ArtsBeat: Drawing Dance: Cunningham at Home in the West Village 2011-08-01T19:14:19Z She studied with Merce Cunningham and incorporated the buoyancy of dance into her painted and woven forms. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z It’s a signature Cunningham moment—casual yet serenely beautiful and, as the poet Jorie Graham, a friend of the Rothschilds’, once described the house, “democratic.” Sir Evelyn and Lady de Rothschild's Gracious Hideaway on Martha's Vineyard 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z One ensemble dance, a nest of activity, recalls Cunningham nature studies, except that it’s set to Roy Orbison’s “Blue Bayou.” Dance Review: Douglas Dunn’s Autobiographical ‘Aubade’ 2014-01-28T22:32:46Z Yes, says Cunningham; "blasé attitudes" towards the illness are a real problem. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z Kuhn heart-rendingly describes the letter in which Cage conveyed the news to Cunningham as “fragile and … cut up into small pieces, some of which, folded, have over time broken in two.” The World of Dance in Letters, Locations and Clothes 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z It coexists with the Cunningham “Doubletoss” choreography perfectly well; it does not heighten its experience. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z Perhaps not only for those of us who never saw the original, this “Doubletoss” is a reminder of how much more there was to Cunningham than even his most devoted followers knew in his lifetime. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z When Cunningham died in 2009, his company announced it would close at the end of 2011; the school would close soon after. In Cunningham Class, Physical Puzzles and Disciplined Energy 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z "Do you ever feel there's something missing in your life?" preeps Elder Cunningham, the chubby one. The Book of Mormon – review 2013-03-24T00:05:41Z The script will be written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, Michael Cunningham. Streep and De Niro reunite for film 2013-08-07T12:07:22Z "Split Sides" is one of the few Cunningham works available in its entirety on DVD, in a format that allows you to see multiple versions of it. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z The Foundation for Contemporary Arts will use to grant to establish a biennial Merce Cunningham Award. Money From Merce Cunningham Trust Goes to Two Arts Groups 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The exhibition, an adaptation of “Merce Cunningham: Common Time,” organized by the Walker Art Center, opens Oct. 39 Dance Performances to See This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z But by moving into and through the dances in 3-D, it offers an immersive sense of what Cunningham called “a space in which anything can happen.” ‘Cunningham’ Review: Exploring Space, Time and Dance in 3-D 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Each of them hoped to become one of those apprentices whom Cunningham used as an instrument for his creativity and then to graduate into the company. ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham Countdown: Saying Goodbye to the RUGs 2011-12-01T18:44:42Z Through Saturday, the center is hosting Ellen Cornfield, an alumna of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, whose company will perform two repertory works and “Portal,” a new piece. Harkness Dance Center Set to Expand Thanks to a $5 Million Gift 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z “We always have a general idea of which holiday window will be most successful and get the best response,” said Harry Cunningham, the store’s senior vice president for design and visual merchandising. Noted: The World Through a Flurry of Snow 2012-12-19T22:16:19Z I was used to the kind of collaboration with Merce Cunningham where you do your work independently. ‘Everything Crossed Over’: Michael Clark’s Cheeky World of Dance 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Visits from "Uncle Merce," his nephew notes, were rare in the early days due to the rigors of Cunningham starting his own dance company. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z That year Ashton and Balanchine celebrated their 75th birthdays, Cunningham his 60th. American Ballet Theater’s Shakespeare Program 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The trust also aimed for variety: a variety of works to demonstrate Cunningham’s stylistic range and a variety of companies, big and small. Make That 101: Cunningham Centennial Moves Online 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Cunningham in Boston Before the 2016 season takes off, it’s worth drawing attention to some out-of-town rarities that may need advance planning. Dance This Week: ‘Ballerina Swan,’ ‘Die Fledermaus’ and the Choreography of Merce Cunningham 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z One strand dates back to 1942, when Cunningham and his new lover Cage began working together, experimenting with mixed-media works that played on the boundaries between art and real life. Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z In the short term, the only thing that’s certain is that New York lovers of Cunningham will get to see “RainForest” next year. Petronio Company to Perform Other Choreographers’ Works 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z You”–Cunningham–”said you couldn’t trip on a note!” ArtsBeat Blog: The Cunningham Countdown: An Exhibition At the Walker Arts Center 2011-11-23T19:27:06Z That’s just one of the things Bill Cunningham gave the world: his delight in the possibility of you. Bill Cunningham Was So Alive 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Since the Cunningham company officially closed two years ago, these performances come under the most-definitely-not-to-be-missed category. The Week Ahead: Dec. 23 — 29 2012-12-23T08:10:04Z For its fourth iteration, his company performs Merce Cunningham’s 1970 work “Signals,” which features an unpredictable live score. 8 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z O’HARA From the Laura Brown perspective, Michael Cunningham is writing his own mother. ‘Three Divas, What Could Be Better?’ Making ‘The Hours’ Operatic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Cunningham, he notes, ordered his own company be dissolved a few years after his death. Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre heads to L.A. with force of nature 'Rice' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Every Wednesday, Brandon Collwes, a former Merce Cunningham dancer, meets up with two or three other dancers on Zoom to dance. Dancing in the Streets of Harlem, and Gathering to Dance, Merce-Style 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z I told Mr. Johns that Cunningham himself ranged as a dancer from the animal to the urbane. Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z He was Cunningham’s artistic adviser from 1967 to 1980, designing a wide range of sets and costumes, and Johns remains a champion of the late choreographer. Glenstone’s connections to dance, now and on the horizon 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The “Ocean” film, wonderfully, records how Cunningham’s mind moved. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z An abundant outpouring of pure dance, featuring strings of exceptionally vivid solos and trios, it showed Cunningham in rich vein; he died three months later. A Cutting-Edge Impresario Leaves BAM: What Was His Best Work? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Ending with a MinEvent for 12 students, the program looked to the future: Who are the Cunningham dancers of the next generation? Review: An Abundance of Cunningham at Harkness Festival 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z In 1971, Cunningham created “Loops,” a series of tasks for a soloist. Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z I looked around and up at Mr Cunningham, whose face was equally impassive. To Kill a Mockingbird isn't a great book but it made America a better place 2010-07-13T17:04:00Z Some current Petronio dancers studied at the Cunningham school; others are taking Cunningham technique classes now. Petronio Company to Perform Other Choreographers’ Works 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z You could view this as a rapid succession of multiple lives and deaths; I think it’s more about Cunningham not wanting us to slap labels on his characters. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z A few years later, however, his new wife, Anna Cunningham, stumbled upon the artworks in a closet, and asked Ernst what they were. A Portrait of Rembrandt Goes on Show. But Did He Paint It? 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Would Cunningham, who took steps to ensure that his company would disband upon his death, have approved of keeping his work alive? Robert Swinston, a Merce Cunningham Disciple, Brings His Troupe to New York for a Debut 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z To counter this erosion, Merce Cunningham, ever the radical, resolved that, after his death, his company would simply cease to exist. What Is the Future for Modern-Dance Companies? 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Cunningham also furthered her exploration of nude studies while working as a commercial photographer in Seattle. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z "His eye for movement was incredible, simply incredible," says Michael Cunningham of his uncle, the legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham, who died at 90 in 2009. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z Cunningham's nephew says his uncle rarely discussed particular projects. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z For anyone who attended Cunningham performances over the years, some were among the toughest times ever spent in a theater. Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z Cage and Cunningham got something else, as well: an invitation to return and teach that summer. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z We even love the Halloween episode of “Happy Days,” where Richie Cunningham goes to a haunted house. Hoping for a Spooky Halloween? We Have Some Suggestions 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Out of all the Cunningham repertory Septet is one the few works that's been widely performed by other companies, both classical and modern. MoveTube: A sublime snippet of Merce Cunningham dancing Septet 2012-05-23T13:02:50Z But the piece becomes less consistently compelling when Mr. Andrieux’s narrative leaves Cunningham and recounts his 2007 move to the Lyon Opera Ballet and its broad repertory. Dance Review: Snapshots of One Dancer?s Life Give a Glimpse Into an Art Form 2010-09-19T22:09:00Z These students are around the age that Cunningham was when he created those now-lost works. Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The last decades of Cunningham's career are represented, in part, by colorful scores and sketches that Seattle's Trimpin composed for Cunningham's "Installations" in 1996. Cornish stages a tribute to Centralia-born dance legend Merce Cunningham 2010-09-15T23:31:00Z The Walker — which has all the sets and costumes that once belonged to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, including items designed by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol — is organizing both shows. Merce Cunningham Exhibitions in Minneapolis and Chicago 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The Angers troupe was in New York before, in 2015, when it danced a 75-minute Cunningham anthology, “Event,” at the Joyce. Review: French Dancers Show Three Faces of Merce Cunningham 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z At my first Cunningham performance, in Edinburgh in 1979, Cage was one of four musicians playing. Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z Cunningham, however, loving ambiguity, also reminded people that he himself grew up in Washington State, near the temperate rain forest of the Pacific Northwest. Dance Review: Jungle Gymnasts on a Farewell Tour 2011-07-11T22:45:25Z Cunningham established the autonomy of dance by making choreography that was independent from music. Merce Cunningham’s Centennial Will Bring a Global Celebration 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The dance world is in a huge place of transition: the Merce Cunningham Dance Company no longer exists. Beyond Judson Dance, Shows at MoMA and Danspace 2012-12-23T08:20:05Z “The cheaper the rides, the more people will take them,” Ms. Cunningham said. The Talk of the Hamptons This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Remarkable as this multiplicity of reactions seems, it only scrapes the surface of the Cunningham experience. Dance Review: Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on: A Tribute to Cunningham 2011-07-17T21:58:41Z And structural ambiguity, so characteristic of Cunningham, pervades basic compositional factors of Mr. Petronio’s piece. Review: Stephen Petronio’s ‘Bloodlines’ 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z His sets, costumes, lighting and sound designs influenced and enhanced the radical ideas of a number of future dance luminaries, among them Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown and Paul Taylor. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z In a way I don’t associate with Cunningham, the drama seems to get stuck in a rut. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z Several of the 2017 revivals are of one of Cunningham’s most poetic genres: the nature study. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z In the 1950s, the choreographer Merce Cunningham became an early exponent of what would become the Theater of the Absurd, alongside the playwrights Beckett, Ionesco and Pinter. Review: Merce Cunningham’s ‘Crises’ Opens Dance at the New Whitney 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z If dance seasons were like fashion weeks, then some trends from the Spring 2015 collections would be legacy projects and tributes to Merce Cunningham. Refreshening Postmodern Roots 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Unlike the entrancing Cunningham work, “Hush” exposed how plodding a duet can be. ABT Studio Company Offers ‘Le Corsaire’ Excerpts 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z And I was nodding my head as I read David Myers’s letter about the “poetry” in Michael Cunningham’s essay on Virginia Woolf. Individual Consciousness, Lengthy Biographies and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z So why does the Merce Cunningham Trust support this project? ArtsBeat: Cunningham Legacy to Continue in France? 2012-03-13T10:00:46Z The movement can be, at its best, elegantly post-Merce Cunningham abstract. Ballet Preljocaj's 'Les Nuits' seduces but is problematic 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z After leaving Bennington without a degree, he moved back to New York City, where, he said, he took classes with Merce Cunningham and was used as a demonstrator by Martha Graham when she taught classes. Paulus Berensohn, a Dancer Who Pivoted to Pottery, Dies at 84 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z And, Cunningham said, if someone offers them something with a great deal of confidence, they may gravitate towards it exactly because it offers them a momentary feeling of control and prevention. "If it makes people feel better, I don't see the harm," said one vendor of essential oils 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Decades ago, many pieces by George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham seemed windowless worlds to many observers, and still do to some; the meanings of Mr. O’Connor’s work may yet happen to me. Review: Tere O’Connor’s ‘Long Run,’ a Dance All About Dance 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z During this time, the privilege and burden of maintaining the celebrated Cunningham repertory fell to Robert Swinston, a veteran of the company for three decades. A Company Debut Is Also a Salute 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z But the quantity of simultaneous incidents onstage, and the multiple focuses, also recall something very different: the dance theater of Merce Cunningham. Dance Review: Tanztheater Wuppertal Revives Pina Bausch’s ‘1980’ in London 2014-02-17T22:50:55Z Across the room, Michael Cunningham chatted with Nick Flynn, while Mary Morris sat with a battered notebook and a pile of printouts and Darin Strauss checked ESPN.com on his laptop. ArtsBeat: In a Brooklyn Cafe, It's Write! Camera! Action! 2012-11-20T00:06:03Z The 20th century saw four choreographic masters of the male-female duet: Fred Astaire, George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton and Merce Cunningham. Review: ‘Cinderella’ Returns to the American Ballet Theater Stable 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Though Cunningham himself is dead, he and his work are everywhere these days. The Week Ahead: Oct. 3 ? 9 2010-10-01T14:39:00Z Bill Cunningham is probably the most honest photojournalist in New York. Capturing the Elusive Bill Cunningham 2010-03-23T18:39:00Z In his early dances Mr. Taylor seemed not to clash with the extreme modernism of this Cunningham aesthetic. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z Cunningham told that story deadpan, which was like him. Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z Cunningham would later attend the University of Washington as an undergraduate in the chemistry department. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The narrative strand featuring Laura Brown, the Los Angeles housewife based on Cunningham's mother, was the one that most intrigued those who asked questions. The Hours by Michael Cunningham 2011-07-08T21:55:21Z Tonight Merce Cunningham will appear on screen in the first public showing of his final interview. ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham Countdown: A Monday With Merce 2011-12-05T15:28:53Z Its opening project was an exhibition and sale of works donated by artists to help finance a short Broadway season by the Cunningham company. Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z Cunningham died two years ago this month; this day was the last of his company’s many Lincoln Center appearances over the years. Dance Review: Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on: A Tribute to Cunningham 2011-07-17T21:58:41Z March 23 Capturing the Elusive Bill Cunningham At 81, Bill Cunningham is probably the hardest working photojournalist in New York. Capturing the Elusive Bill Cunningham 2010-03-23T18:39:00Z A highlight was her spectacular performance in “Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event” in honor of the modern master Merce Cunningham. Best Dance of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Cunningham, who died in a car crash in 1989 aged 33, was a prominent black player at a time when such figures were rare, and thus hugely influential. TV highlights 06/03/2013 2013-03-06T07:00:07Z The wild card was Cunningham, who added noisy accents on guitar, electronic drum pads and one-handed keyboards. Review | Nearing 40 years together, New Order’s sound is still thrilling 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z “She has an understanding of what’s going on in the world of fashion and design,” Mr. Cunningham said. Up Close: Meg Sharpe, Designer of the Lion and Bill’s 2012-11-07T21:18:16Z The curators celebrate his collaborative ventures, designing sets pieces for dances choreographed by Cunningham and Brown, and his lifelong intellectual engagement with close friends and lovers, including Twombly and Johns. Review | Robert Rauschenberg: A clear-eyed views of chaos, or just chaos? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Bridget Nowlin, director of library services at Cornish College of the Arts, worked with Partridge and the Cunningham Trust to trace some of Cunningham’s works back to the college. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Cunningham, however, is a fat, dim-witted man-child who confuses Mormon mythology with The Lord of the Rings. The Book of Mormon ? review 2011-03-27T00:05:50Z This mom was Sara Cunningham, who lives in Oklahoma City and is married with two children, Travis, 37, and Parker, 32. This Mother Strives to Change the World, One Hug at a Time 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z But his friendship with Cunningham developed further in the 1990s, when he danced some of the Cunningham repertory with his White Oak Dance Project. Baryshnikov Plans Fund-Raising to Give Artists Space 2014-01-15T23:30:41Z Mr. Swinston’s performance is in most respects a remarkably close reproduction of Cunningham’s. Dance Review: A Golden Age Continues Without Its Midas 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z Good deeds in the field have always been exceptions: among them, the collaboration between Cunningham and Mr. Atlas stands out both for experimentalism and for duration. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z From Mr. Arsham’s perspective Rauschenberg loomed particularly large, both because of his artistic reputation and his long and tumultuous relationship with Cunningham. Daniel Arsham on Designing Sets for Merce Cunningham 2011-12-28T23:20:52Z Just the firm planting of a bare foot on the floor, seemingly as rooted as a tree, brings back a lost world of Cunningham memories. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z But unlike Balanchine and Cunningham, Nikolais was interested in sleight-of-hand and eye, in visual illusion rather than the expansion of a dance vocabulary. Dance Review: Celebrating Alwin Nikolais at the Joyce Theater 2010-05-05T23:06:00Z It’s a lovely catalogue of what made Cunningham such a revolutionary. Review | ‘Merce Cunningham at 100’: Beautiful but missing a spark 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z No current-day experts are needed to establish the core ideas of the Cunningham aesthetic, from the use of chance in composition to the independence of dance and music. ‘Cunningham’ Review: Exploring Space, Time and Dance in 3-D 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Several — notably Raymond Pinto and Tyler Phillips — also performed with great distinction in July at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston in Rashaun Mitchell’s staging of Merce Cunningham’s “How to Kick, Pass, Fall and Run.” Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center 2012-09-30T21:58:45Z Essentially, the Cunningham legacy would continue in France. ArtsBeat: Cunningham Legacy to Continue in France? 2012-03-13T10:00:46Z “People will criticize me,” says Cunningham, but I’m a good mother.” Getting an abortion as a career move 2014-04-21T18:49:00Z “The meaning of Kids These Days is that we want to be the voice for kids who are trying to say, ‘Look out, because we’re serious and we care about the future,’ ” Mr. Cunningham said. Chicago News Cooperative: Kids These Days: A Group With a Sound if Not a Genre 2011-07-31T02:45:26Z They believe that Cunningham, Cobbs and perhaps Chambliss’s wife were at the church that night and witnessed some or all of the events involving the placing of the bomb. Moving Alabama Into the Modern Age 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z But they’re all committed and personable, and one, Anna Chirescu, is first-rate; several would surely have caught Cunningham’s eye and respect. Review: Compagnie CNDC-Angers Dances Cunningham 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Cunningham famously used games of chance to structure his dances. Jonah Bokaer’s 3,000 ping-pong balls take stage at American Dance Institute 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Actress, the recording alias of Darren Cunningham, brings a deeply twisted nostalgia to the techno and house of decades past. The Playlist: Kamasi Washington Releases a Blast of ‘Truth’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z His greatest achievement in terms of character is perhaps Laura Brown, the frustrated housewife with suicidal impulses whom Cunningham created as the third lead in The Hours. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z A few poses looked like quotes from Merce Cunningham works, which only added to the self-consciously strained effect. At Ivy Baldwin Dance’s ‘Oxbow,’ only the dancing is static Cunningham’s memoir is, to use one of his favorite words, a marvelous glimpse into the fashion world as New York was coming into its own. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Another characteristic of Cunningham dance theater, the nature study above all, is simultaneity. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Nor could you buy the admiration of Bill Cunningham. The Year in Fashion: Down with the Élites! 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Even in reshuffled fragments, “Loops” retains some of the feel of mature Cunningham. Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Mitchell performs several charged solos, seemingly responsive to shifts in the atmosphere; once — evoking Merce Cunningham, in whose company he danced — he moves with four chairs strung on him. Review: In ‘Platform 2015,’ the Beauty of Ragged Edges at Danspace Project 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z She apprenticed with Kelly Wearstler in Los Angeles and then moved to New York, where she worked first in store development for Ralph Lauren and later for Mark Cunningham, a well-known Manhattan decorator. Up Close: Meg Sharpe, Designer of the Lion and Bill’s 2012-11-07T21:18:16Z Melissa Harris, the editor in chief of Aperture, which mostly publishes material on photography, edited the book and came up with the idea for the app shortly after Cunningham’s death. Even in Death a Choreographer Is Mixing Art and Technology 2012-08-10T04:00:20Z But, by the end of “Fly By Wire,” a vigorous romp apparently inspired by horse racing, everyone appeared more at ease, most notably Andrea Weber, a former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Dance Review: Heginbotham and Alarm Will Sound, Matched by Mark Morris 2014-02-21T20:58:17Z It’s safe to say that there never was a choreographer with a greater appetite for performing at different locations than Merce Cunningham. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z While Merce Cunningham used five of the studies as part of his 1960 dance “Crises,” Mr. Nancarrow remained almost entirely unknown until his scores began appearing in the journal Soundings in the late 1970s. Conlon Nancarrow’s Player-Piano Works at the Whitney: No Live Performer Needed 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z It's the key component in Cornish College of the Arts' Merce Cunningham minEvent, which also includes lectures and performances scheduled through next spring. Cornish stages a tribute to Centralia-born dance legend Merce Cunningham 2010-09-15T23:31:00Z When I talked to Eddy and Baxley last year, both expressed the view that the later recantations by Cobbs and Cunningham were dubious. Moving Alabama Into the Modern Age 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Even now, there’s no limit to the facets Cunningham presents. Dance Review: Cunningham Dance Company Offers Finality and Contentment 2011-12-30T14:27:41Z Bizarrely, “On Line” omits ballet altogether and refers to Cunningham chiefly as the gateway to the postmoderns. Critic?s Notebook: Line in Dance? Let?s Go Back to the Drawing Board 2011-01-31T23:58:51Z The song evokes the day a couple years when hundreds of Whitney Young High School students, including Stewart, Mensa, Cunningham and Segal, walked out in protest of budget cuts that cost teachers their jobs. Kids These Days pull songs from the static 2012-11-16T16:04:00Z If he can raise $307,000, said Mr. Cunningham, he will use it to finish a final version for commercial distribution. Media Decoder: Movie About a Severed Leg Seeks Backers via Crowdsourcing 2013-05-19T22:28:02Z But these features were only incidental; they struck me mainly because I imagine we will see more deviations as we move further into the era of Cunningham after Cunningham. Dance Review | Lyon Opera Ballet: Works by Cunningham, Forsythe and Marin at the Joyce Theater 2010-03-11T20:24:00Z On my first views of Cunningham repertory in 1980, I was continually startled by the individuality of each work. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z It was “Walkaround Time” that gave this exhibition its marvelous poster image, with a James Klosty photograph of the former dancer Carolyn Brown sublimely exemplifying the Cunningham principle of motion in stillness. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z Mr. Atlas told me in March that “Ocean” was the hardest of all his Cunningham dance films to make. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z I thought about this and other complications of mastery as I watched the Washington Ballet program “Contemporary Masters,” works by Mark Morris, Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor, at Sidney Harman Hall. Review | Washington Ballet dancers are tested by contemporary works 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z All of Cunningham’s dances are dramas; this is one of the most unmistakably so. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Michael Cunningham, who came here in connection with his novel “The Hours,” in which Virginia Woolf is a principal character, said that Woolf’s house looks like a graduate student’s apartment compared with her sister’s home. The Bloomsbury Bohemians in the British Countryside 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z But Cunningham class serves a purpose beyond sustaining his work, imparting a solid, streamlined foundation for dancing of all kinds. In Cunningham Class, Physical Puzzles and Disciplined Energy 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z While the film version of The Hours was being made – directed by Stephen Daldry, with a screenplay by David Hare – Cunningham's mother was dying. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z However, Cunningham told The Wrap she believed other Maze Runner fans were angry and disappointed at the revelations. Petition demands Maze Runner cast apologise for 'thefts' from Native American burial site 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z However birdlike the dancers seem, Cunningham isn’t telling a story about birds or beaches. Review | ‘Merce Cunningham at 100’: Beautiful but missing a spark 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Most of its 14 performers were ballet dancers new to Cunningham, but all showed the choreography’s rich and rigorous imagination. At Vail Festival, Dance Artists Renew and Extend Themselves 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z With its graphic division of the body into three regions — legs, head/torso and arms — LifeForms allowed Cunningham to disrupt the natural chain of joint action. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Dr. Michael Cunningham, a social psychologist and professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Louisville, says that the answer is twofold. "If it makes people feel better, I don't see the harm," said one vendor of essential oils 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z He probably thought I was taking photos of “The Bill Cunningham,” but in reality I was just doing what he was famous for: capturing candid photos of interesting people. Bill Cunningham Looked for Subjects. And They Looked for Him. 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z So it’s too bad the book is short on the groundbreaking insight promised by the effusive back-cover praise from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham. Review: Top Model Alum Tackles iPhone Addiction and Social Media in New Book 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Cunningham, who died in 2009, used technology inventively throughout his career; for the works in this series, the camera is not an impartial observer but an active participant. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z It is the work of Bill Cunningham, a staff photographer for The Times. An Exhibition That Blends the Runway and the Street 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z This essay is adapted from the preface to “Fashion Climbing,” a posthumous memoir by the New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, to be published in September, by Penguin. Bill Cunningham Was So Alive 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Music and dance meshed into an organically beautiful whole with “Music for Piano 4-19,” whose solitary notes and spare textures provided a haunting soundtrack for the tautly sensual, rigorous choreography of Cunningham’s “Suite for Five.” Music Review: For Composers, Bending the Notes for Cunningham 2011-03-21T21:36:32Z The loft space that the Graham company took over 10 years ago was long home to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The Kitchen Will Spend Some Creative Time in a Westbeth Loft 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z “What a Horse!” came after “Soft Forms,” a solo by Mr. Collwes, a former Merce Cunningham dancer. Review: Gwen Welliver Goes Equine at La MaMa Moves! 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Gerring takes Cunningham’s tilts and torque and makes everything snap a little harder. Review: After Merce, the Dances Go On, and Go On to Inspire 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z A photograph of Merce Cunningham by Barbara Morgan hung nearby, and an Alexander Calder mobile dangled over the table. For the Love of Dance, a Collection to Match 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Cunningham designed his first hat for his mother to wear to the World’s Fair of 1939. Lens: Bill Cunningham: A Rare Bird's Feathers 2011-03-29T13:05:25Z It was evident then that Cunningham had taken many ideas from Irish jigs and step dancing, and that Irish music was part of the vast, crazy quilt of aural sensations that Cage had assembled. Dance Review: Cunningham and Cage?s ?Roaratorio,? a ?Legacy Tour? Revival 2010-06-07T22:15:00Z Cunningham, too, had a haughty side, one clearly honed in battle. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z But Cunningham was always alive to the telling detail. 'I Hate The Devil Wears Prada More Now Than I Did 10 Years Ago' 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z The year after graduating from Harvard-Westlake, Platt was in Chicago playing the pivotal role of Elder Cunningham in “The Book of Mormon,” a role he then played on Broadway. Ben Platt's L.A. high school days: He shone in different ways than Evan Hansen, teachers say 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z The final visual artist to collaborate with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company – a list that includes heavyweights like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol – will be Daniel Arsham. ArtsBeat Blog: Designer Named for Final Cunningham Performances 2011-08-10T18:00:48Z Before she joined Cunningham’s main company, she worked closely with him as a member of the Repertory Understudy Group, which focused intensely on this solo. At Work in Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z In the 1980s “Quartet” gave Cunningham himself the greatest role of his old age. Dance Review: A Golden Age Continues Without Its Midas 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z The 25th anniversary of this annual monthlong display of modern dance pays tribute to another milestone — the centenary of the birth of Merce Cunningham, who died a decade ago. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z This dovetails well with Cunningham’s asymmetrical, nonhierarchical sense of space. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Visitors often logged disappointed reviews on travel Web sites, Cunningham notes. If the Mall is America’s front lawn, how careful should we be on the grass? Back-up singer Jovante Cunningham, interviewed for the series, wept at the memory of accidentally witnessing the two of them engaged in sex when a door to Kelly’s bedroom unexpectedly opened. Is time finally up for R. Kelly? "Surviving" series shows why he's been protected for so long 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Five Choreographers, One Tribute Monday was the first anniversary of the death of the choreographer Merce Cunningham. Dance Review: A Tribute to Merce Cunningham in Battery Park City 2010-07-27T22:38:00Z It’s also evident, however, that Cunningham, characteristically, was fragmenting and splicing. Dance Review | Lyon Opera Ballet: Works by Cunningham, Forsythe and Marin at the Joyce Theater 2010-03-11T20:24:00Z Even now, with listeners seasoned by half a century of avant-garde developments, Mr. King said he appreciated the opportunities that Cunningham provided to composers and performers. Avant-Garde Dancing Feet,Tickling Composers? Minds 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z Although Ms. Tanowitz never danced for Cunningham, she uses his style more extensively than any choreographer whose work I currently see. Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz Brings a Certain Eccentricity to Dance at Joyce 2014-02-05T22:27:31Z It was fascinating to hear these four recall the classes taught by Cunningham at age 88, 89, 90, in which they, as newcomers to the studio, participated. ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham Countdown: Saying Goodbye to the RUGs 2011-12-01T18:44:42Z When Mr. Johns became its artistic adviser in 1967, a remarkable period ensued in which several other artists made stage designs for Cunningham. Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z Several who saw Cunningham dance his solos felt they were so personal that they should never be danced by anyone else. Review: A Lost Merce Cunningham Dance Solo, Found 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Cunningham, for many years the fashion and society photographer for The New York Times, left it behind when he died in 2016. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Cunningham remains a relentlessly experimental film-maker with a slightly deranged imaginative streak shaped by the sci-fi films and electronic music he devoured in his youth. Centre stage 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z Mr. Cunningham covered fashion shows and photographed models on runways. An Exhibition That Blends the Runway and the Street 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z “It was a slow box office weekend,” wrote Todd Cunningham of The Wrap, “because the studios largely steered clear ahead of Friday’s U.S. debut of .” Bond Holds, Butler Bombs on a Sleepy Weekend 2012-12-09T22:26:19Z Before he started changing the very meaning of dance in the 1950s, Cunningham grew up in Centralia, Lewis County, and attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Surrounded by photographs, a collector finds beauty in truth 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z “I thought he was very smart, very funny and a gifted conversationalist,” Ms. Cunningham said. From Dating to Marriage, He Had a 5-Prong Plan 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z For corroborating dream hampton's work as a witness in the first episodes, back-up singer and dancer Jovante Cunningham says that in addition to being ostracized, she was doxed and her personal information was released online. "It took hell to get there": The legacy of "Surviving R. Kelly" bringing down a predator 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Though some still use the word “abstract” to describe plotless choreography, Cunningham, like the choreographer George Balanchine before him and Mark Morris today, observed that humans dancing cannot be abstract. L.A. Dance Project Takes On Merce Cunningham 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z This was the role that Cunningham made for himself, and his solo — powerfully and distinctively danced alternately by Rashaun Mitchell and Daniel Madoff — ends the work. Dance Review: Jungle Gymnasts on a Farewell Tour 2011-07-11T22:45:25Z These films feel very contemporary, but in fact they connect all over the map of postwar art — to Concrete poetry, the choreography of Merce Cunningham, Conceptual Art’s use of language — and painting too. Review: Stan VanDerBeek at Andrea Rosen Gallery 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z In the most riveting section, Mr. Andrieux — who remains stiffly deadpan throughout — performs the long routine with which the Cunningham dancers begin their daily class. Dance Review: Snapshots of One Dancer?s Life Give a Glimpse Into an Art Form 2010-09-19T22:09:00Z But of course to show Cunningham’s work you must have Cunningham dancers, and they are here too, in weekend programs. The Week Ahead: Dec. 23 — 29 2012-12-23T08:10:04Z On June 25, Mr. Cunningham, the beloved street photographer, died. The Year’s Top Stories From the Fashion World 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Over 12 dogged minutes, Actress – Brit visionary Darren Cunningham – takes Panda Bear into a very dark place. This week's new singles 2011-07-22T23:07:26Z The back warm-up is important: Cunningham technique focuses strongly on the spine; the back may be used either in opposition to or in unison with the legs. Learning to Dance Merce Cunningham: Risk in Calm Containers 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z He and Tschernisch were walking around Kerry Hall, the home of Cornish when Cunningham attended the college in the late 1930s. Sergei Tschernisch: In 17 years at Cornish's helm, mission accomplished 2011-05-14T04:33:09Z If appointed, he plans on bringing two former company members with him — Daniel Madoff and Melissa Toogood — and to start a small group that would perform Cunningham works as well as new dances. ArtsBeat: Cunningham Legacy to Continue in France? 2012-03-13T10:00:46Z From when he began working with Cunningham in 1959 he documented every program and performance on notecards, and he interviewed Cunningham extensively. Even in Death a Choreographer Is Mixing Art and Technology 2012-08-10T04:00:20Z Though it’s no surprise that the Cunningham is the most remarkable item here, the happy surprise arrives in finding that it’s in good company throughout. Review: ‘Legends & Visionaries’ by New York Theater Ballet 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Like so many Cunningham works, it changed my mental landscape. Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z Paul’s faith in a good orchestra — which is terrific here, led by music director James Cunningham — and classic singing and dancing has largely paid off so far. Review | Splashy ‘Pajama Game’ at Arena Stage aims to seduce with 1950s style 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Cunningham's nephews and nieces were also invited into the ring. Cunningham Legacy Tour almost skipped Seattle 2011-10-23T18:48:04Z Ms. Lent’s delivery, captured by her husband on his phone, is pleasant and calm, a product perhaps of years spent, after retiring from the Cunningham company, as a second-grade teacher. Twist, Bend, Reach, Step: A Merce Cunningham Solo Anyone Can Try 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z In the tradition of modern dance, the repository of any choreographer’s legacy has usually been a namesake company, but the legacy plan for Cunningham included the disbanding of his troupe, in 2011. Review: After Merce, the Dances Go On, and Go On to Inspire 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Her inclusion in Mr. Cunningham’s early work was a small enough happening in her life that, when contacted by phone 27 years later, she had no recollection of it. Bill Cunningham’s Columns, the Early Days 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Mars-Jones attacked Cunningham's prolific use of literary references, noting each quote used from classic novels. Mars-Jones wins Hatchet Job prize 2012-02-08T10:23:29Z Speaking of which: In December, Spectrum will present a series of studio performances inspired by Cunningham’s “EVENTS,” which pulled excerpts from the company’s repertory into one fragmented, intermission-less performance. Where to see dance in Seattle, from classical to cutting-edge 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z As a part of a special presentation on Sept. 6, the museum will present dances associated with Rauschenberg — by Brown, Cunningham and Mr. Taylor — in the Sculpture Garden. Renegades and Radical Bodies in 3 New York Exhibitions 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Speaking by telephone last week, Mr. Cunningham said the answer lay in spoiler territory. Media Decoder: Movie About a Severed Leg Seeks Backers via Crowdsourcing 2013-05-19T22:28:02Z It is the final example of the Cunningham “nature study.” Dance Review: A Long-Absent Comedy Leaps Out for a Farewell 2011-03-06T20:22:36Z Michael Cunningham is the author of “The Hours.” Surviving AIDS, but at What Cost? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Here, Cunningham is 45 and still close to his prime. MoveTube: A sublime snippet of Merce Cunningham dancing Septet 2012-05-23T13:02:50Z After his death on Saturday at age 87, we asked New York Times readers to share their sightings — and personal photos — of Mr. Cunningham on the streets of New York City and beyond. Bill Cunningham Looked for Subjects. And They Looked for Him. 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z The non sequiturs and changes of tone in Cunningham choreography remain beautifully riveting: they show how full of variety and contradiction humanity can be. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z Caroline Cunningham, president of the trust, said she believed C3 would be a good partner for the nonprofit, which wanted to raise money for Mall restoration and maintenance. A music festival holds part of the Mall for big-dollar attendees. Is that okay? 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z When the dancers, as part of the Event, were granted free Cunningham classes through the Trust, Ms. Mearns turned to Mr. Bartelme for guidance. Learning to Dance Merce Cunningham: Risk in Calm Containers 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z He said TV gave him structure, and he dreamed of going up onto the screen, “The Purple Rose of Cairo” style, to be part of the Cunningham family on “Happy Days.” Ted Sarandos Talks About That Stock Drop, Backing Dave Chappelle, and Hollywood Schadenfreude 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z Then Pratt was cast as Elder Cunningham in “The Book of Mormon” and deferred admission again. Another ‘Pitch Perfect’ part for Ben Platt 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The 21st-century forces that have transformed the fashion industry would probably have brought out more of Cunningham’s bite. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z When this was commissioned for Cunningham’s “RainForest,” Warhol first showed his Mylar balloons. An Immersive Sound Installation at MoMA Introduces the Studio 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z In a world where conflicts of interest are quaint, Cunningham has a profound sense of ethics. Op-Ed Columnist: Hunting Birds of Paradise 2011-04-06T19:39:26Z In this duet, Cunningham took mutual male-female support to a new extreme of give-and-take. Dance Review: Cunningham Dance Company Offers Finality and Contentment 2011-12-30T14:27:41Z He spoke with passion about what the Cage Cunningham Fund could achieve. Baryshnikov Plans Fund-Raising to Give Artists Space 2014-01-15T23:30:41Z The duets here remind us that Cunningham often makes as much of a woman’s independence as her dependence. Review: Compagnie CNDC-Angers Dances Cunningham 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z As a young photographer, Cunningham already practiced the unconventional — one of her first nudes, a self-portrait, was composed in a discreet corner of the university campus. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z In the first part, the dancers share their personal stories of discovering and pursuing Cunningham’s work. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z One of them, Jovante Cunningham, went public years later, when she appeared in the documentary “Surviving R. Kelly.” R. Kelly and the Damage Done 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Cunningham ends with a short treatise on taste. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Documentary-watchers, keep your eyes on “Project Nim” and “Bill Cunningham New York”: both films made the cut for the Academy’s documentary shortlist and today they were also named to the Producers Guild list of candidates. Carpetbagger Blog: Producers Guild Offers Its Documentary Nominations 2011-12-02T22:05:04Z “The photograph seals the emotion,” Ms. Cunningham said. The iPhone at the Deathbed 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Cunningham’s range kept growing right to his final days. Dance Review: A Golden Age Continues Without Its Midas 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z “I found that there’s no faking it in Cunningham technique,” she said. In Cunningham Class, Physical Puzzles and Disciplined Energy 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Cunningham had begun contributing this photojournalistic coverage to The Times years before the columns became regular fixtures of Sundays and took the names Evening Hours and On the Street. Bill Cunningham’s Columns, the Early Days 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z She was also broadly prolific — Cunningham’s oeuvre includes portraits, figure studies, arts scenes, landscapes, abstracts and street shots. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z A yellow-bellied slider, a colorful freshwater turtle, perches on a log, waving its clawed feet in the air — “turtle yoga,” Cunningham quips. At South Carolina’s only national park, paddle through some of the country’s oldest trees 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z In the 1940s, John Cage and Merce Cunningham were young artists at the start of a collaboration that would radically alter and expand ideas of music and dance and how they might go together. Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The Cunningham company disbanded on Dec. 31, two-and-a-half years after the death of its founder and namesake. ArtsBeat: Graham Company Plans Move to Cunningham Studios 2012-04-16T22:49:14Z Merce Cunningham studied at Seattle's Cornish College and performed with the Martha Graham Dance Company, forming his own company in 1953 in New York. Merce Cunningham Dance Company to visit Seattle on final Legacy Tour 2010-12-15T21:01:05Z At various points in their careers, Warhol, Johns and Rauschenberg teamed up with prominent choreographers including Merce Cunningham and those who were part of the experimental Judson Dance Theater in Greenwich Village. Glenstone’s connections to dance, now and on the horizon 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Its productions include classics by the likes of Merce Cunningham and Antony Tudor, hourlong adaptations of work for children, and contemporary ballets. ArtsBeat: New York Theater Ballet Is Seeking New Home After Building Is Sold 2013-09-05T17:10:47Z Cunningham, all his life, was an enthusiast for a wide range of other dance. The New Season: Merce Cunningham Legacy Tour Prepares to Take Final Bow 2011-09-18T04:00:03Z The reason Bill Cunningham’s photographs for The New York Times quickly morphed from occasional small street fashion or society-affair feature into an enormously popular weekly visual column called On the Street was simple. The Amazing Treasure Trove of Bill Cunningham 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z "Hey Mr. Cunningham," she says, recognizing one of the men and speaking to him of his son Walter. Critic's Notebook: Baltimore's heroic mom reminds us there's no 'them' 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The bassist Bob Cunningham, who played with Slyde, was onstage for Ms. Butterfly’s show, with the drummer Victor Jones and Mansur Scott, who occasionally beat a drum and offered gnomic verbal contributions. Dance Review: Roxane Butterfly Remembers Jimmy Slyde at Symphony Space 2010-04-18T22:52:00Z As for the Cagelles, well, you wouldn't want to meet them in a dark alley, especially Nicholas Cunningham's fierce German dominatrix, Hanna. Kelsey Grammer shines in "La Cage Aux Folles" 2010-04-20T01:27:00Z But it shows Cunningham was a master of theater, too. Review: Compagnie CNDC-Angers Dances Cunningham 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Cunningham deplores the anti-Semitism he encountered in his salon. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z “When you’re checking in, it cuts the wait time down by 80 percent, compared to a conventional line,” Cunningham says. Will the long airport lines of spring break 2016 be back again this year? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z In brief, nearly every accolade Cunningham showers on “Mrs. Dalloway” is much more appropriately assigned to and demonstrated first in “Ulysses”: Lengthy Biographies, James Joyce and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z She was never a member of a major dance company, but when she attended graduate school at Sarah Lawrence College, she met Viola Farber, the former Merce Cunningham dancer, who became a mentor. Who’s Afraid of ‘Goldberg Variations’? Not This Choreographer. 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Cage wrote “Credo in Us” for a dance choreographed by Merce Cunningham and Jean Erdman, but the work also has broader political undercurrents. Music Review: Glass Farm Ensemble Plays John Cage at Symphony Space 2012-06-17T22:14:35Z Throughout her entire life, up until her death in 1976, Cunningham, born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, embodied the essence of a contemporary woman. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Dean was with the company over three days, watching Cunningham organise his choreography around the enormous space. This week's new dance 2010-05-28T23:07:00Z The first eight were spent trying to get Mr. Cunningham to cooperate. Capturing the Elusive Bill Cunningham 2010-03-23T18:39:00Z It’s mostly about the fashion world of the late 1940s through the early ’60s, when Cunningham was a hat designer and party crasher in Manhattan. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Like a pair of pearl earrings from Tiffany’s, Bill Cunningham’s posthumous memoir arrives as if in a small blue box. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Taylor, who performed for Martha Graham and, briefly, for Merce Cunningham before forming his own company, was devoted to modern dance as an American art form. Inside the Wild Mind of Paul Taylor 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z “Good genes and a great attitude,” says Cunningham. Going To Coachella? You Could Be Scouted By A Modeling Agent 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z “Yeah, Richie Cunningham, all grown up,” he tells her, referring to another role he played at the Falcon in a production of “Happy Days,” based on the TV show Marshall created. Rory O'Malley's comic road to King George in 'Hamilton' started in Burbank 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Cunningham and Mr. Curtis go overboard on audience outreach, explaining everything in a tone of apologetic disclaimer. On Artists and Audiences at American Realness 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z They visited him in the lost-in-time world of the Carnegie Hall studios, where Mr. Cunningham and the 98-year-old photographer Editta Sherman, the last two residents on their floor, faced eviction after decades. | 'Bill Cunningham New York': Capturing a ?Look at Me? Milieu With Impish Modesty 2011-03-16T00:30:05Z Dia:Beacon performances by the Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown companies remain some of my favorite art experiences of this new century. The Week Ahead: Feb. 19 ? 25 2012-02-17T15:52:59Z Cunningham inspired a generation of black youngsters before his untimely death at the age of 33 in 1989. Catch-up TV guide: from My Little Princess to Daria 2013-03-16T06:00:04Z Merce Cunningham, in a red leotard, dances a solo and is shadowed by his own outline, in black. Nam June Paik at the Whitney: A Work of Dizzying Complexity 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The idyllic absorption in the processes of nature itself, here all serene, is a Cunningham specialty. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe?s Last U.S. Repertory Night - Review 2011-12-11T23:27:57Z When I broke the news of Cunningham’s death to them, sorrow may not have been uppermost in their minds. Dance Review: Cunningham and Cage?s ?Roaratorio,? a ?Legacy Tour? Revival 2010-06-07T22:15:00Z The Cunningham wildlife pieces show landscapes in which nothing much happens — nothing except life. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z It’s awkward to watch such repurposing of the Cunningham aesthetic, with its skittering feet, impossible balances and quivering muscles under Spandex. Dance Review: Michael Clark?s ?Who?s Zoo?? at Whitney Biennial 2012 2012-04-01T21:00:01Z If you squint, you might see pathetic, grotesque versions of characters Mr. Cunningham has already conjured with great tenderness in his previous novels. Review: ‘A Wild Swan,’ Michael Cunningham’s Scabrous Antidote to Happily Ever After 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z “They lived within the parameters of those styles,” she said of Graham and Cunningham. Twyla Tharp and Her Body of Perpetual Motion 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z It’s no longer news that the Merce Cunningham Dance Company is due to shut up shop at the end of 2011. ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham Countdown: Saying Goodbye to the RUGs 2011-12-01T18:44:42Z Mr. Baryshnikov’s invocation of Cunningham is a reminder of his own extraordinary and late-flowering collaboration with this radical American modern-dance choreographer. Baryshnikov Plans Fund-Raising to Give Artists Space 2014-01-15T23:30:41Z Are Graham and Cunningham rolling in their graves? Graham, Taylor, Cunningham: Three Titans. One Stage. One Night. 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z On a cool April Fools’ Day morning, we meet Cunningham and our fellow paddlers at the trailhead parking lot, where he cautions us just how wild it is. At South Carolina’s only national park, paddle through some of the country’s oldest trees 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Visual art and design are as important to the work of this choreographer as the movement itself — precise and impressively controlled motion like that of Merce Cunningham, whose work Bokaer performed for years. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z They give the phrase “after Cunningham” a hopeful sound. Review: After Merce, the Dances Go On, and Go On to Inspire 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z "I have this image of a white walker sitting on the throne," Cunningham said. Tight-lipped 'Game of Thrones' cast reflects on last season 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z “I think the Cunningham was kind of austere and technical in their minds — archaic and old-fashioned,” he said. In Cunningham Class, Physical Puzzles and Disciplined Energy 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Each of the Park Avenue Armory performances is an Event — that is, a one-off Cunningham anthology. The New Season: Merce Cunningham Legacy Tour Prepares to Take Final Bow 2011-09-18T04:00:03Z It features 43 works by 18 composers who wrote for Cunningham’s company, which was founded in 1953 and will disband this year. Music Review: For Composers, Bending the Notes for Cunningham 2011-03-21T21:36:32Z This unparalleled theatrical genre comes, effectively, to an end this month with the final performances and closing of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Dance Company in ?Roaratorio? - Review 2011-12-08T23:13:25Z I could connect both works to Cunningham: both share his use of spatial multi-directionality, and their avoidance of theatrical illusion connects, though not to works like “Beach Birds,” to other Cunningham choreography. Dance Review | Lyon Opera Ballet: Works by Cunningham, Forsythe and Marin at the Joyce Theater 2010-03-11T20:24:00Z Two decades later in Ohio, Anna Cunningham decided she could no longer keep her husband’s hidden paintings a secret. A Portrait of Rembrandt Goes on Show. But Did He Paint It? 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Asawa studied art at Black Mountain College, the heart of mid-20th-century avant-garde art, and her teachers, we learn, included Merce Cunningham and Buckminster Fuller. American Artists, Inspiring and Enchanting 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Cunningham said the festival is aimed at attracting millennials and educating them about the importance of the Mall. A music festival holds part of the Mall for big-dollar attendees. Is that okay? 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Johns’s interest in Cunningham’s work did not waver; he attended performances by the Cunningham company even after Cunningham’s death. Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z But Tell’s darkly comic performance and Cunningham’s adventurous direction make it work. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Cunningham, who died at 90 in 2009, saw dance, music and décor as separate entities, best created “independently of one each other, without the collaborators knowing what the other was doing,” Mr. Arsham said. Daniel Arsham on Designing Sets for Merce Cunningham 2011-12-28T23:20:52Z Cage’s subsequent letters to Cunningham are shot through with frustration toward his oft-traveling friend: “When in september will you be back? i would like to measure my breath in relation to the air between us.” The World of Dance in Letters, Locations and Clothes 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Sitting in the offices of the Cunningham Trust at City Center recently, Mr. Vaughan handled an iPad carefully as he viewed the completed app for the first time. Even in Death a Choreographer Is Mixing Art and Technology 2012-08-10T04:00:20Z “Répétiteur,” at City Center, in effect does for Merce Cunningham and dance what “The Ethics of Dust” aimed to do at Westminster. The Pain and Sweat of Merce Cunningham Dancers, Captured in Latex 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z And the Cunningham structures are messy in some ways. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z On Thursday she was named as this year’s recipient of the Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Cage Cunningham Fellowship. The Cage Cunningham Fellowship Puts a Spotlight on Light 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Just seeing Mr. Cunningham not raise camera to eye is enough to strike dread into the heart of a fashion editor, Anna Wintour notes. Capturing the Elusive Bill Cunningham 2010-03-23T18:39:00Z The scene is darkly funny, but for these students it also brings up a truth: Merce Cunningham is gone, and what does that mean? Dance Review: Motion and Emotion Discover New Pairings 2011-04-01T23:41:49Z In his staging of Cunningham’s “How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run,” Mr. Mitchell has done wonders. Dance Review: Cunningham Work at Summer Stages Dance in Boston 2012-07-27T21:13:23Z The same cannot be said of Johnny Cunningham’s music, whose treacly, Celtic-infused lyrics seem destined for the soundtrack of an animated Disney film. | 'Peter and Wendy': In This Neverland, It?s Peter Puppet 2011-05-10T21:32:03Z I made 12 visits to watch different items of Cunningham choreography, all danced by former members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company on a stage erected in the middle of the galleries. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z But Ms. Childs had another ambition: to join Merce Cunningham’s dance company. A Choreographer Dancing With Ghosts, and the Future 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Chris Cunningham's images leave before you get a handle on the anatomy. Chris Cunningham 2010-04-27T21:05:00Z This excerpting has a precedent in Cunningham practice. ‘Cunningham’ Review: Exploring Space, Time and Dance in 3-D 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z As American modern dance grew, the men caught up: Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor. It Was a Happy Month, Mostly, for Modernists 2011-04-01T21:14:26Z Four years later, for Cunningham’s work “RainForest,” Warhol created square, metallic helium-filled balloons, which reflected light and floated around the dancers. Glenstone’s connections to dance, now and on the horizon 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z “Bill Cunningham: Facades” is the result of a long-term collaboration between Mr. Cunningham and his friend, fellow photographer and neighbor at Carnegie Hall Studios, Editta Sherman, who died last year at the age of 101. Art Review: Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’: The Book as Exhibition 2014-03-13T20:25:16Z I am getting ahead of myself in terms of Cunningham’s life. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z In June 2009, the choreographer Merce Cunningham, then 90, announced that his dance company should follow his death — which happened the next month — with a world tour, and then fold. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Anyone familiar with the work of Michael Cunningham knows that he holds the notion of happy endings in bittersweet regard. Review: ‘A Wild Swan,’ Michael Cunningham’s Scabrous Antidote to Happily Ever After 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z As Balanchine, Merce Cunningham and Mark Morris all observed, you cannot have abstraction where there are human beings on a stage. Arts & Leisure Preview: Story Ballets, Still Romantically Inclined 2010-08-04T22:16:00Z Always wunderkinder of virtuosity, Cunningham’s dancers had to be as intellectually brainy as they were physically smart. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z That led to studies with Graham and Cunningham as well as with Mary Anthony, among others. At 85, choreographer Rudy Perez is still inspired by the rhythms of everyday life 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z That means she licenses out all future performances of Cunningham works by professional dance companies and students. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z Aspects of Cunningham’s multifarious theatricality were revealed by successive décors for different Cunningham dances shown in the Rose Theater, or when scores by various Cunningham composers were played in the Allen Room. Dance Review: Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on: A Tribute to Cunningham 2011-07-17T21:58:41Z But Cunningham, less than two years before he died, reworked it for Mr. Riener. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe?s Last U.S. Repertory Night - Review 2011-12-11T23:27:57Z A performance was captured on film and that recently discovered film, “Cunningham Ballett 1958,” will be screened this week alongside live performances of the two works. Dance Listings for May 13-19 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Charles Atlas's name is tied to the icons of contemporary dance and performance art, Michael Clark, the late Merce Cunningham and visionary fashion and art trickster, Leigh Bowery. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-19T00:05:56Z Merce Cunningham is quoted somewhere as saying he wanted a company that danced the way he danced. David Gordon Digs Into His Archives for a Dance That Matters 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Would Ballet Theater ever dare to tackle a less ballet-related Cunningham work? Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at City Center - Review 2011-11-10T23:06:42Z Cunningham, who last detailed the rich and powerful in this country in “Billionaires,” returns with the life story of Vladimir Putin, a tale that allows him to recount the history of post-Soviet Russia. Newly Published, From Putin’s Russia to Pinball 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Cunningham, 27, said when he was growing up punk in Seattle he always thought of Folklife as "more of a hippie kid thing." Northwest Folklife Indie Roots stage moves with the times 2011-05-26T18:03:05Z “This isn’t a spoiler — he’s clean, and sober, and working in eastern North Carolina,” Mr. Cunningham said of Mr. Wood. Media Decoder: Movie About a Severed Leg Seeks Backers via Crowdsourcing 2013-05-19T22:28:02Z "I didn't realise that if you put a movie star in your book you actually get the movie star in real life," Cunningham quipped. The Hours by Michael Cunningham 2011-07-08T21:55:21Z He asked the Academy if he could delay getting there until the Cunningham company had come through Seattle. Cunningham Legacy Tour almost skipped Seattle 2011-10-23T18:48:04Z In 1972 Mr. Marshall had written a segment of the comedy anthology series “Love, American Style” about a 1950s family, the Cunninghams, and their first TV set. Remembering the TV and Movie Work of Garry Marshall 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Cunningham says you should consider a direct booking with the hotel, online or by phone, and steer clear of the slightly lower “prepay” rates offered by an online agency. Perspective | How to avoid making travel deal mistakes 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z It has added a number of younger people of color to important staff positions in recent years, such as culture and TV critic Doreen St. Felix and theater critic Vinson Cunningham. A New Yorker staffer questions racial equality at the magazine — and becomes the talk of the town 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z SAM’s show will include almost 200 Cunningham images, making for a rare, expansive look into one of the key figures in American photography in the 20th century. Exciting new art exhibitions are coming to the Seattle area in fall 2021. Here’s what to see 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z The documentary, called “Bill Cunningham New York,” follows Mr. Cunningham on his assignments for the Styles sections of The Times and chronicles his life and work over eight decades. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z In “Nearly 902” her duet with Mr. Mitchell — the last of the innumerable great duets choreographed by Cunningham — is a meeting of equal explorers, testing themselves and each other, keeping the audience in constant suspense. Spring Performance: Dance: A Grand Finale: Cunningham?s Last Dances 2011-02-20T02:00:56Z David Vaughan, archivist of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for more than 60 years, spoke engagingly about the choreographer and composers. Music Review: For Composers, Bending the Notes for Cunningham 2011-03-21T21:36:32Z “Anything that’s not the usual poetry reading,” said P. Scott Cunningham, a poet and the festival’s founder and director. ArtsBeat: Getting Poetry to the People in Miami 2014-03-27T16:30:36Z Cunningham, who counts himself among the few fans of the Mies, said, “We wanted that historic building to have some air.” 10 buildings you must see around the new boom-time Washington 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Cunningham tapped into that feeling—and in Kovgan’s film, it shines from every frame. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z It was at Black Mountain that Cunningham founded his dance company, which, for the next half century, redefined modern dance and played a pretty important role in music as well. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Soon after, he went to Paris to see the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Kim Brandstrup Brings ‘Jeux’ and Follows a Different Path to City Ballet 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The increasing size of the events exacerbated the situation further – "basically, when policemen's sons and daughters ended up on travellers' sites doing ecstasy, then they really started getting interested," Cunningham says. The Levellers take it to the next level ? the return of crusty 2011-02-17T23:21:01Z But they also prompt marveling, for in only four evenings they suggest much of Cunningham’s extraordinary choreographic range. The Week Ahead: Dec. 4 ? Dec. 10 2011-12-02T19:02:33Z “All we can do is tell the Kuna that you’d like to visit and then it’s in their hands,” Stuart Cunningham, the owner of the booking company I used, Panama Travel Unlimited, explained. Explorer: At the End of Eden, Rustic Tranquillity 2013-09-12T16:37:46Z Often overlooked when the history of black footballers in Britain is under discussion, Laurie Cunningham takes some deserved limelight here. Catch-up TV guide: from My Little Princess to Daria 2013-03-16T06:00:04Z On weekends, Mr. Cunningham photographed her on the streets of New York wearing ensembles put together from their collections. Art Review: Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’: The Book as Exhibition 2014-03-13T20:25:16Z “She never seems to play the same piece twice,” Merce Cunningham once said of his favorite accompanist, Pat Richter; high praise. Finding the Keys for the Right Ballet Steps 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The exhibition features most of the 88 gelatin silver prints from the series, which Mr. Cunningham donated to the New-York Historical Society when the book was completed. Art Review: Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’: The Book as Exhibition 2014-03-13T20:25:16Z Cunningham was in Big Spring, a West Texas town on the precipice of an oil boom; not its first. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Texas Oil Boom Fuels a Family Saga 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Cunningham explores issues surrounding the 2008 death of gay school student Lawrence King, who was murdered after asking a classmate to be his valentine. Melbourne international film festival 2013: 10 things to see and do 2013-07-24T02:23:00Z Along the way our lives were repeatedly changed by Cunningham’s dance poetry. Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z In an interview backstage at Sadler’s Wells over the weekend, Cunningham and Chisholm talked about their unlikely meeting of minds and bodies, and about what they learned from the process. When a Spice Girl Met a Contemporary Dancer 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The dances in Event, which include sections from “Variations V,” “Rebus” and “Fractions,” were created before Cunningham started to choreograph with DanceForms, a computer program that resulted in dense, difficult arrangements of steps. Robert Swinston, a Merce Cunningham Disciple, Brings His Troupe to New York for a Debut 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Discovering unknown reserves of mental and physical facility in themselves, the dancers inspired Cunningham’s choreography to take on new dimensions. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z This is a classic Cunningham joke: is this a quartet or a trio with an intruder? Dance Review: Jungle Gymnasts on a Farewell Tour 2011-07-11T22:45:25Z Photographs of Cunningham performing at Cornish in 1939 also crop up here and there, giving a vivid flavor of his work. Cornish stages a tribute to Centralia-born dance legend Merce Cunningham 2010-09-15T23:31:00Z “Bill Cunningham: Facades” is on view at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West at 77th Street, from March 14th through June 15th. | A History of New York Fashion and Architecture, Through Bill Cunningham’s Lens 2014-03-13T22:09:46Z There are other ballet companies that could present a quadruple bill featuring choreography by Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp and Alexei Ratmansky, but only American Ballet Theater would. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at City Center - Review 2011-11-10T23:06:42Z You can see movements recalling others in Cunningham’s repertory, but each has powerful qualities of atmosphere, expression, structure and phrasing not to be found elsewhere. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z “It’s a crime families don’t understand how their children are oriented, and point them along their natural way,” Mr. Cunningham wrote in an early chapter. Bill Cunningham Left Behind a Secret Memoir 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Cunningham highlighted the grove’s role as a replacement for sacred places lost. How Plagues Shape the Landscape 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Cunningham was a bit shocked to hear from Mr. Harris again. From Dating to Marriage, He Had a 5-Prong Plan 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Stylistically, the choreography is the most heroic flowering of the late period in which Cunningham, devising dances on his computer, made novel and rigorous combinations of the movements of his dancers’ legs, torsos and arms. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z Still, to the composers he commissioned, Cunningham’s directives were nominal. Avant-Garde Dancing Feet,Tickling Composers? Minds 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z The show includes “Scanning,” a 1963 silk-screen that incorporates a photo of a lithe Mr. Paxton performing in “Aeon,” his first dance with Cunningham. Steve Paxton, a Buddha of American Dance 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Michael Cunningham’s review calls it “a page turner about illness and mortality … peppered with surprises, a minor wonder in a narrative so rife with dreadfully foregone conclusions.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z A sheet of jotted notations for Cunningham’s 1956 dance “Suite for Five” is a hurricane of words and diagrams. Art Review: ‘Dancing Around the Bride,’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-12-06T23:01:56Z As Cunningham tells it, the show’s crew filmed in the hours after Trump won the 2016 U.S. presidential election in November. Yes, Kit Harrington was thinking about Trump during his "Better Lies" speech on "Game of Thrones" 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z More regal than ever at 81, she can speak Shakespearean verse with mellifluous intelligence; a former Merce Cunningham dancer, she can invest simple pantomime with gravitas. Review: A ‘Lear’ With Hops, Spins and Posturing 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z On Monday afternoon, roughly four months after he died at age 87, more than 1,000 people gathered at Carnegie Hall to pay tribute to the longtime New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. Postscript: Bill Cunningham 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z “It was the best surprise of my life,” Ms. Cunningham said. From Dating to Marriage, He Had a 5-Prong Plan 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Not all of “Split Sides” is top-drawer Cunningham, but it’s exciting: watching, we might be in outer space. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe?s Last U.S. Repertory Night - Review 2011-12-11T23:27:57Z I had no idea Mr. Cunningham had it in him. Review: ‘A Wild Swan,’ Michael Cunningham’s Scabrous Antidote to Happily Ever After 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z “Kurdewan … Bill Cunningham here,” he would say, as if I didn’t know, every time. Bill Cunningham, Unpublished Photos 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Other radical features of Cunningham dance theater included highly unconventional rhythm, the placing and focusing of dancers within stage space and a pronounced degree of ambiguity. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z Despite calls for his resignation, Cunningham is still the bishop of Syracuse and has faced no repercussions for his words. Looking the other way: The accepted sexual abuse of young boys by institutional powers 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Organized by artist Dawn Kasper, this show features sculptures and interactive events that explore Cunningham's interest in textiles and weaving -- albeit weaving of a contemporary, somewhat conceptual nature. Datebook: Boxing painters, teen idols and John Altoon's short career 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The Ailey company begins its annual winter residency on Wednesday with a gala featuring “Cunningham Centennial Solos,” a compilation of excerpts from a handful of Merce Cunningham works that span a half-century. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z He has transformed his physique for the role, dropping 35 pounds from his Elder Cunningham body by eliminating dairy and gluten from his diet. Ben Platt, From ‘Pitch Perfect’ to an Anxious Teen on Stage 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Cage wrote the piano version first and later orchestrated it for a ballet by Merce Cunningham. Review: Berio to Cage to Mozart at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z There’s good cause for this: Robert Swinston, the company’s director, was with the Cunningham company for 36 years as an outstanding dancer and was its dance director and vigilant custodian after Cunningham’s death. Review: French Dancers Show Three Faces of Merce Cunningham 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z In a city of dedicated originals, New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham stands out as one who both captures the essence of the singular personality and clearly represents one himself. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z While Cunningham and Cage were known for founding their work on chance procedures, both Byrd and Michael Cunningham see something more deliberate in "Quartet," a 1982 piece being performed on Thursday's program. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z In examining this question, the librettist and lyricist Ryan Cunningham is kind to his intricately flawed characters. Theater Review: For Artists, Growing Up Is Still Hard to Do 2011-06-20T21:56:37Z On Monday, Cunningham thanked fans on social media for “making me a part of your morning routine” for nearly 18 years. 106.1 KISS FM flirts with format change, Bender Cunningham out amid shake-up 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z After the Merce Cunningham Dance Company disbanded in 2011, Robert Swinston, who was with the troupe for more than 30 years, did just that. Robert Swinston, a Merce Cunningham Disciple, Brings His Troupe to New York for a Debut 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z In both his staging and selections, Mr. Swinston said, he hoped to show “that Cunningham was a humanist at heart.” Robert Swinston, a Merce Cunningham Disciple, Brings His Troupe to New York for a Debut 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Hawkins and Cunningham were members of a posse with Aaliyah that they called Second Chapter, and they all had big dreams of making it in the music business. R. Kelly and the Damage Done 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z NOT long before his 80th birthday in 1999 the choreographer Merce Cunningham went back to his hometown, Centralia, Wash., and spent some time with his brother Jack, a lawyer. Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z Altogether, it was an extraordinary feast of movement invention, what Cunningham called “an adventure in attention.” Review: 100 (or So) Adventures in Attention, Merce Cunningham-Style 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z The degree to which Cunningham’s stage choreography — his legacy — should, or can be, preserved has long been intensely debated, not least by the choreographer himself. Art in Review: CHARLES ATLAS: ?Joints Array? 2011-08-18T20:43:15Z It got jump-started in 2012 when Carberry, tasked to help Cunningham archive and then shelve the material in deep storage, told him how great all the footage was, a judgment Tweel agreed with. They recognized the story was a keeper: 'Finders Keepers' at Sundance 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z It was the diversity of Cunningham dance theater. Dance Review: Cunningham Dance Company Offers Finality and Contentment 2011-12-30T14:27:41Z Thanks largely to the Merce Cunningham Trust, his dances are still performed widely and well. Review: After Merce, the Dances Go On, and Go On to Inspire 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z There is a delicacy in the details of working in a lab full of microbes and pipettes that dances across the pages like the feet of a Cunningham dancer: pure, precise poetry. Jeremy O. Harris: Brandon Taylor ‘Subjugates Us With the Deft Hand of a Dom’ 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z But the restless Cunningham moved on from them. Dance Review: A Golden Age Continues Without Its Midas 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z “And that got me thinking,” Ms. Cunningham said. The iPhone at the Deathbed 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z It’s a superlatively eclectic view of human potential; Cunningham was celebrating human diversity. Dance Review: Cunningham Company Dances 'Nearly 902' in Montreal 2010-05-31T22:24:00Z The mechanic medium integrated Cunningham into a wider community of artists, photographers and intellectuals, with whom she expressed her artistic language in an unyielding clarity. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z I spotted Bill Cunningham, crouched low at the corner as I made my way down the block in an olive green gabardine suit with a turned-up fur collar. Bill Cunningham Looked for Subjects. And They Looked for Him. 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Some of their poses could derive from classical art, but more broadly, the work is classical in tone — lucid, legible in the manner of Merce Cunningham. Review: In Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Song of Songs’ the Beloved Is Beauty 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Soon she was studying with Merce Cunningham and James Waring. Valda Setterfield Dies at 88; a Star in the Postmodern Dance Firmament 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z In New York, Balanchine, Trisha Brown, Cunningham all felt like part of the same world. 2010-01-08T20:23:00Z Problematic to appreciate, taxing to execute, Cunningham choreography did not grow more palatable as younger choreographers absorbed several of his innovations and as his dance technique became taught around the world. Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z From Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer prize-winning novel "The Hours": "there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another." Don't fear the flip phone: My year of living archaically gave me back more than I lost 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Sometimes Mr. Taylor used Cunningham’s dancers for his own work. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z She was also closely associated with Merce Cunningham, as a dancer in his company, a teacher of his technique and one of his trusted friends. Valda Setterfield Dies at 88; a Star in the Postmodern Dance Firmament 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Kovgan will also include the found footage in her film, which is titled “Cunningham” and scheduled for release in 2017. Long-Lost Merce Cunningham Work Is Reconstructed in Boston 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z You know I yield to none of you in my admiration for Cunningham, but you also know that for many people — especially in America — he remains offbeat. ArtsBeat: A Critics Conversation: Modern Dance Madness 2012-04-03T14:14:19Z The Cunningham alumni all danced in the first performances or revivals of the pieces they will stage. ArtsBeat: Former Merce Cunningham Dancers to Teach Choreographer's Works 2012-03-20T19:48:39Z In a recent rehearsal, the guest artist Melissa Toogood, a former Merce Cunningham dancer trained to do anything, asked, “How is that possible?” Stephen Petronio Company Marks Its 30th Anniversary 2014-04-04T19:50:59Z In a larger sense Ms. Michelson’s movement vocabulary, which drives dancers through repetitive, fiendish phrases, incorporates centuries-old traditions, including ballet and yoga, and newer ones, chiefly the technique developed by Merce Cunningham. ?Devotion,? a Moment to Remember in Dance 2011-12-17T05:26:08Z After closing his shop in 1962, Mr. Cunningham began working in journalism, gradually switching from newspaper columns to photo spreads. Bill Cunningham, photographer of New York street fashion, dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z In January the Merce Cunningham Dance Company began a two-year farewell “Legacy Tour” leading up to its final performances, on New Year’s Eve 2011 in Manhattan. Dance Review: Cunningham Company Dances 'Nearly 902' in Montreal 2010-05-31T22:24:00Z Bryan Cunningham, who owns an aviation services company in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and is a frequent air traveler, says PreCheck membership, which costs $85 for five years, is “absolutely, definitely” worth the money. Will the long airport lines of spring break 2016 be back again this year? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Does such cinematic communing with past female lives trace back to “The Hours,” the Stephen Daldry movie based on the Michael Cunningham novel? Movie Review: Madonna?s ?W.E.? With Andrea Riseborough and Abbie Cornish 2012-02-03T00:14:32Z But he singled out Cunningham for naming honors. Baryshnikov Plans Fund-Raising to Give Artists Space 2014-01-15T23:30:41Z These are striking, but they don’t unbalance the work; Cunningham moves on in other directions. Dance Review: Ridding a Moody Cunningham Work of Ambiguity, One Gesture at a Time 2011-02-14T23:29:10Z According to its director, Richard Press, Mr. Cunningham would agree to be interviewed, then spend months canceling or postponing shoots. Bill Cunningham, Legendary Times Fashion Photographer, Dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z But Johnson presents a thoughtful defense, recognizing a dozen or so historical examples, from Emily Dickinson to Bill Cunningham, who removed themselves from enforced sociability to live fully. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z It took place on white carpet and included an extended group relevé in which performers, ranging from untrained dancers to those from Merce Cunningham’s company, fought for their balance. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Gad, meanwhile, began Thursday night’s performance of “Mormon,” in which he plays the sweetly grating Elder Cunningham, but was injured midway through and was replaced by an understudy. ArtsBeat Blog: Injured Broadway Stars Hope for Quick Returns to the Stage 2011-10-31T17:00:38Z In a telephone interview, Ms. Cunningham talked about how she works to change the world, simply by showing up. This Mother Strives to Change the World, One Hug at a Time 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z There, at separate theaters, were the dead greats, Graham and Cunningham — represented by their companies — as well as the senior living master of modern dance, Mr. Taylor. It Was a Happy Month, Mostly, for Modernists 2011-04-01T21:14:26Z Curator Carlos Basualdo took his inspiration from the four-hour dance "event" that was performed in New York shortly after Cunningham's death, in which his former dancers performed – and added to – fragments of his work. Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z “What other movement practices might actually augment the Cunningham technique?” In Cunningham Class, Physical Puzzles and Disciplined Energy 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z But this program, largely with him performing solo, shows that as a dancer he is not working himself with the full rigor, force or virtuosity he employed while with the Cunningham troupe. Dance Review: Jonah Bokaer at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2012-08-02T21:53:05Z Cunningham, whose quilts sell for about $9,500, does four-day retreats that can cost $1,400. The pandemic-fueled demand for masks has reignited interest in an age-old skill 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Part of the Cunningham centennial celebration, “Night of 100 Solos” is an extreme version of an Event with an ambitious aim: to open up Cunningham’s work to a new generation of dancers. Learning to Dance Merce Cunningham: Risk in Calm Containers 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z A hoarder, a compiler, or as Cunningham self-identified, “a record keeper,” “a collector.” The purity of driven work: Bill Cunningham, model for a committed creative life 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Over the next four weeks, companies founded by Cunningham alumni will perform their own new work. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z When Cunningham first brought material from “CRWDSPCR” to company class, Mr. Cole said he remembered the dancers exchanging terrified glances. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z On Sunday, March 19, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance’s “Icons: Graham, Cunningham, Taylor” grants audiences what seems — incredibly — like the first chance to see their work back to back to back. Graham, Taylor, Cunningham: Three Titans. One Stage. One Night. 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Of the 45,000 annual tourists to Trenton, Mr. Cunningham said, about half visit the City Museum, making it, like the more centrally located New Jersey State Museum, one of the city’s biggest draws. Trenton City Museum Faces Uncertain Future 2012-07-10T22:23:33Z First, the choreographer and Merce Cunningham dancer Raushaun Mitchell teams up a second time with the poet Anne Carson. Dance: Summer Stages: Dance 2010-05-07T17:58:00Z We flow between Duchamp and Cage, Rauschenberg, Cunningham and Johns, who continually face each other and form new constellations, act in consort and react, overtake, fall back, regroup. The Bride and the Bachelors: delighting in Duchamp 2013-02-15T15:32:55Z Mr. Riener and, especially, Mr. Mitchell — both alumni of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company — are outstanding. Dance Review: Rebecca Lazier’s ‘Coming Together/Attica’ Evokes 1971 Riot 2013-06-18T19:55:59Z Even before Merce Cunningham died, in 2009, plans were being made to ensure the choreographer’s legacy. ArtsBeat: A Merce Cunningham Trove for the Walker Art Center 2011-03-17T15:49:30Z That desire ultimately led her to New York, where she studied with Merce Cunningham. Tonya Lockyer: ‘powerhouse personality’ turns Velocity around 2013-07-04T11:51:19Z The Cunningham immediately created a world, as satisfying at different times to observe as a galaxy or a new species. At Vail Festival, Dance Artists Renew and Extend Themselves 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z In November 2008, British artist Tacita Dean spent three days filming the great US choreographer Merce Cunningham as he led his company through rehearsals in a former Ford assembly plant in Richmond, California. Tacita Dean captures Merce Cunningham's final steps 2010-04-13T22:00:00Z It used to prompt some of the biggest ovations in the Cunningham company’s repertory. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The climax of the festival was the staging of "The Ruse of Medusa," Satie's surreal farce with piano interludes called monkey dances, which featured, of course, Cunningham. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Others were 40-minute Events — those singular Cunningham anthologies planned to give an audience a varied sampler of the experience of dance itself — featuring eight dancers. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z Total improvisation is also antithetical to Cunningham’s practice, but these are expert improvisers, and in their gentle, speechlike interactions they keep discovering novel and fugitive beauty. Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z One clip showed Cunningham in his prime as a dancer, sinking with spectacular fluency from upright stance into a deep knee-bend without lifting his heels; the next showed him in a late interview. ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham Countdown: A Monday With Merce 2011-12-05T15:28:53Z Robert Swinston, the company’s director of choreography, now dancing the role once inextricably linked to Cunningham himself onstage, kept the drama’s ambiguities alive on many levels. Looking Back: Cunningham, Morris, Ratmansky, Hallberg and Cojocaru 2011-12-17T05:26:08Z Pam Tanowitz, a choreographer known for putting a postmodern spin on classical dance idioms and collaborating with composers and visual artists, is this year’s recipient of the Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Cage Cunningham Fellowship. Baryshnikov Arts Center Prize Goes to Pam Tanowitz 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z When Cage died, in 1992, Cunningham was preparing the world premiere of his own magnum opus, “Enter,” with two solos for himself. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z Cunningham learned how to manipulate the avatars, the stocky, rubbery little 3-D bodies whose layered limbs could be controlled in ways that went even beyond his imagination. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Education professors Anne Cunningham of the University of California, Berkeley and Keith Stanovich of the University of Toronto tested reading in a large group of first-graders, then again when the students were high school juniors. Can babies read? 2012-09-12T16:08:00Z Within a few years he and Cunningham began collaborating, with the choreographer creating dances specifically for the video camera. Art in Review: CHARLES ATLAS: ?Joints Array? 2011-08-18T20:43:15Z Mr. Cunningham photographed the couple for other features, at work, at parties and during nights out on the town. At the Easter Parade, a Wedding Many Outfits in the Making 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z But Cunningham hasn't even read the Book of Mormon. "Book of Mormon" fresh, funny and sweet 2011-03-25T00:48:29Z Though he stopped working full time with Cunningham in 1983, he went back and worked with Cunningham on several later projects. Science Is on His Dance Card 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z And Abraham’s partnering is much more conventional — the dancers holding hands, as in ballet, where in Cunningham the points of contact might be one dancer’s wrist under the other’s elbow, anything but a grip. Review: After Merce, the Dances Go On, and Go On to Inspire 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Today the dance division contains the collections of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Merce Cunningham and Jerome Robbins, among many more. Pavlova’s Shoes, Nijinsky’s Diary, and Other Dance Treasures From the Public Library 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Cunningham’s own immediate sense of loss is also a constant subtext, but so is the idea that the dead accompany and inspire us. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z About this familial disapproval Mr. Cunningham is blunt but not rancorous. Bill Cunningham Left Behind a Secret Memoir 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z This thrilling fragment of the choreographer Merce Cunningham’s 1958 dance “Summerspace” is sufficient justification to make a documentary about Cunningham in 3-D. ‘Cunningham’ Review: Exploring Space, Time and Dance in 3-D 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z If, for some reason, you felt compelled to make me recite the last lines of “White Angel,” by Michael Cunningham, or “In The Gloaming,” by Alice Elliott Dark, I’d cry on the spot. Sloane Crosley: By the Book 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Cage and Cunningham began working together in 1942; Rauschenberg and Mr. Johns became, with them, an artistic quartet of close friends in the 1950s. Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z This work, a beautifully ebullient hourlong crazy quilt of fabric culled from Irish social dance in general and prompted by James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” in particular, was created by Cunningham in 1983. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Dance Company in ?Roaratorio? - Review 2011-12-08T23:13:25Z “The simple fact is, without the new work of Merce Cunningham, how would the Cunningham Dance Foundation be able to support the company in the same way that it had? It was a practical consideration.” Robert Swinston, a Merce Cunningham Disciple, Brings His Troupe to New York for a Debut 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Bill Cunningham has been a habitual presence on the streets of New York for nearly 50 years, and Paris and London know him, too. What It Was Like to Be Photographed by Bill Cunningham 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z It is the result of yet another award, the center’s Cage Cunningham fellowship. When the Finely Tuned Spotlight Falls on the Lighting Designer 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z The vintage footage of Cunningham dancing “Changeling” will be projected when performances are not taking place. Long-Lost Merce Cunningham Work Is Reconstructed in Boston 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Over the years, in various locations, that sanctuary has seen a Who’s Who of dancers, including Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor and, on one occasion, Fred Astaire. Closing Up, but Not Sitting Down 2010-12-11T17:18:00Z Cunningham showed the ring he found to colleague Ann Johnson, and they wrote a Craigslist ad and contacted a local Tiffany store manager to try to locate the ring's owner. Lost wedding bands come full circle 2011-11-19T15:27:00Z Its unequivocal commitment to narrative flies in the face of the abstract dance personified by Merce Cunningham; the homespun “Miller’s Wife” ventures back toward Martha Graham. Art Review: ‘Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore’ at N.Y.U. 2012-09-06T22:07:05Z As for the members of Anonymous 4, the soprano Susan Hellauer would use the word “pure” only to describe the voice of one of her colleagues, Ruth Cunningham. Early-Music Ensembles: Praised as Pure, but Seeking More 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Only in the mid-sixties, after a game-changing world tour, did Cunningham’s radical movement style begin to win over audiences. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z They studied ballet and the Merce Cunningham technique. Yvonne Rainer Revives Her ‘Mattress Monster’ Dance 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The New York Times reports that the northeast corner of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue will be known as "Bill Cunningham Corner." New York City to name intersection 'Bill Cunningham Corner' 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Banu Ogan, the former Cunningham dancer who staged it, said the spine is more vertical in “Summerspace” than in later Cunningham dances, which became more complex and technically challenging over time. Graham, Taylor, Cunningham: Three Titans. One Stage. One Night. 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z But what the film doesn’t give is an accurate sense of Cunningham time. ‘Cunningham’ Review: Exploring Space, Time and Dance in 3-D 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z There are many ways in which Mr. Cunningham and some of his colleagues never left Abstract Expressionism behind; “Quartet” in dance and music was certainly one. Dance Review: A Golden Age Continues Without Its Midas 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z And they were painted in 1968 by Mr. Johns, who designed the boxes as a modular set for the Cunningham dance “Walkabout Time.” Art Review: ‘Dancing Around the Bride,’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-12-06T23:01:56Z After rereading the pilot script I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. Actor Tom Bosley dies at 83 2010-10-19T20:21:00Z When Merce Cunningham died, in 2009, the risk felt especially acute. Review: After Merce, the Dances Go On, and Go On to Inspire 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Cunningham, who says her grandmother was a "fabulous" guitar player, took up the instrument as a child and began writing songs by the age of eight. "Sadness is such a common language": Madison Cunningham on songwriting, sorrow and the Beatles 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Cunningham created roles for himself in all four works. ArtsBeat Blog: The Cunningham Countdown: A Day for Merce in Chicago 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z But learning a solo by the modernist master Merce Cunningham? Twist, Bend, Reach, Step: A Merce Cunningham Solo Anyone Can Try 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Watching Cunningham’s musical team at work, Mr. King said, was an inspiration. Avant-Garde Dancing Feet,Tickling Composers? Minds 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z Cunningham was in his late 50s when he made the lead role of “Squaregame” for himself, setting himself both outside and inside the group. Dance Review: Jungle Gymnasts on a Farewell Tour 2011-07-11T22:45:25Z The dancer in Cunningham’s old role — on Thursday night it was a commandingly brilliant Rashaun Mitchell — walks across the stage in a long baggy coat. Dance Review: A Long-Absent Comedy Leaps Out for a Farewell 2011-03-06T20:22:36Z Cunningham ultimately returned to Memphis a few years later and launched his own studio. Member of Jerry Lee Lewis band killed in shootout 2012-10-15T00:21:11Z Speakers under the dancefloor are playing back the footfalls and movements of a number of Cunningham's dances, recorded in New York using underfloor microphones. The Bride and the Bachelors: delighting in Duchamp 2013-02-15T15:32:55Z Among the fascinations of this one was how it drew me back as aspects of Cunningham’s work in the 1980s. Review: Compagnie CNDC-Angers Dances Cunningham 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Cunningham explains the madness that is a dancer’s devotion to dance, the daily toil and repetition and sheer work involved. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z “Very few people onstage, very simple movements; yes, it’s Cunningham, but there is meant to be a kind of lightness about it. That was a new idea to bring into the work.” Graham, Taylor, Cunningham: Three Titans. One Stage. One Night. 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z With a sharp eye, Mr. Cunningham captured the kooky, the stylish, the adventurous, the cutting edge and everything in between. Bill Cunningham’s Wide Range of Fashion Photography 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Enamored of Garbo’s nutria coat, Mr. Cunningham said he had barely noticed the woman herself when he took a photo of her on the streets of New York. Bill Cunningham, photographer of New York street fashion, dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Eventually, they are joined by Mr. Riener, a former Merce Cunningham dancer and choreographer, who, in “Leap Year,” another section, improvises in and around Tompkins Square Park in the East Village. Sidestepping the Web, Dance Ink Is ‘a Performance in Print’ 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z These questions become doubly important in the case of Cunningham, who eliminated the reassuring frontal focus of traditional dance. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Greenberg, 63, has been a fixture in experimental dance for years: He began choreographing in his early 20s, when he was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Neil Greenberg’s New Dance ‘Betsy’ Is a Wild Child 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Cunningham’s photography of unpredictable urban fashion trends earned him a loyal following and made him internationally renowned as a trend-spotter, long before new looks were identified by more renowned fashion editors. Bill Cunningham, photographer of New York street fashion, dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z But their marriage couldn't weather his affair with Cunningham. A new John Cage biography: plenty on the music, less revealing of the man 2010-12-02T00:58:00Z She's now a trustee of the Merce Cunningham Trust and is its director of repertory licensing. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z That said, I do think they did a very good job, and Michael Cunningham did a great job. ‘Three Divas, What Could Be Better?’ Making ‘The Hours’ Operatic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z If so, the most historic aspect of 2011 will be the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, after the death of Cunningham himself in July 2009. Looking Ahead: Time to Turn the Page 2010-12-30T23:28:26Z It’s inevitable that this guy and Cunningham, America’s “raging voice of common sense,” will team up on the side of noisy injustice. Review: Noah Hawley’s ‘Before the Fall’ Is One of the Year’s Best Suspense Novels 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Zoology and social anthropology were often inseparable for Cunningham, who choreographed many works known as “nature studies.” Dance Review: Jungle Gymnasts on a Farewell Tour 2011-07-11T22:45:25Z Byrd has worked with dance-world luminaries like Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and studied with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Where to see dance in Seattle, from classical to cutting-edge 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z For some people, these works exemplify the classicism of postmodern dance; any dancegoer can spot moments when they echo choreography by George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham. Review: Decades of Lucinda Childs’s Cool Minimalism in Motion 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z "We just hoped it wouldn't rain," said Cunningham. Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z And I found myself making connections between it and choreography by figures as diverse as Frederick Ashton, Pina Bausch, Merce Cunningham, Jerome Robbins and Twyla Tharp. Review: The Humanity of Yvonne Rainer’s Natural and Peculiar Dances 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z In these fleeting and otherwise unseen or unremarked moments, Mr. Cunningham finds something creative, life-affirming and free, and preserves it forever. | 'Bill Cunningham New York': Capturing a ?Look at Me? Milieu With Impish Modesty 2011-03-16T00:30:05Z The well-chosen selections in “Cunningham” reproduce the variety of a Cunningham Event, and give the Cunningham experience of luminous instants. ‘Cunningham’ Review: Exploring Space, Time and Dance in 3-D 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Cunningham used a stock vocabulary, Mr. Wolff explained, yet never became predictable. Avant-Garde Dancing Feet,Tickling Composers? Minds 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z His death was announced by Kellie Cunningham, his trustee and business manager, who did not specify the cause. Gene LeBell, 89, Judo Champion, Wrestler and Star Stuntman, Dies 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Cunningham said that a cremation in Brooklyn could cost less than $2,000, and her blog, The Inspired Funeral, lists 14 green cemeteries outside the city that charge less than those within it. Baby Boomers Are Drawn to Green and Eco-Friendly Funerals 2014-03-12T22:33:56Z Ms. Tanowitz’s work is in heady company here, with Cunningham’s witty, invigorating “Cross Currents” and Frederick Ashton’s coolly spare “Monotones II.” Review: In Merce Cunningham’s Honor, Pam Tanowitz Thrills 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Like other Cunningham dances from its period, “Signals” was created with the idea that its sections and roster of dancers could be flexible. At Work in Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z I’m not wild about the way Mr. Millepied places largely black costumes for the Cunningham MinEvent against a black backdrop with dim lighting. L.A. Dance Project Has Vivid Performers and Fine Repertory. There’s Just One Problem. 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z It is also a suitable metaphor for Cunningham’s dances, which often appear to begin in the middle, without a foreseeable end. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z And yet, quite unlike Cunningham, Mr. Andersen is continually fascinated in this work by symmetry and spatial harmony. Review: Ballet Arizona Performs ‘Round’ in a Dreamy Desert Ambience 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z As a fashion blogger, the idea of being snapped by Bill Cunningham was the holy grail, the ultimate approval. Bill Cunningham’s democratic lens: Style blogs owe his empowering eye for fashion a huge debt 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z And, pointedly, Mr. Cunningham praised the women for wearing clothes that they actually owned. On the Runway Blog: Everybody Got Dressed for Bill 2012-04-24T17:36:30Z The program also included Merce Cunningham’s glorious “Summerspace,” which, though created in 1958, was a shoo in for the most invigorating and fresh work on the program. Review: At City Ballet, Giving Voice to the Body, With Sneakers 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z With a cast of 20 dancers and scholars, she presents deconstructed installments of works by Vaslav Nijinsky, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham and Bob Fosse, as well as a response to George Balanchine’s “Agon.” 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Cunningham became a source of inspiration 50 years ago. Dance Review: A Tribute to Merce Cunningham in Battery Park City 2010-07-27T22:38:00Z As you move forward in this time capsule of a book, though, you begin to realize that there was also a drop of Andy Warhol in the young Cunningham. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z “I saw Michael Cunningham’s acknowledgment of Three Lives in ‘The Hours,’ and I was charmed,” she says. In Greenwich Village, the Perfect New York Bookstore Lives On 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The critic demolished Pulitzer Prize-winner Cunningham's book about a middle-aged gallery owner attracted to his young brother-in-law in a in the Observer last January. Mars-Jones wins Hatchet Job prize 2012-02-08T10:23:29Z The vividness with which the Cunningham dancers characterized the many moods of “Roaratorio” on Wednesday kept seizing the heart. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Dance Company in ?Roaratorio? - Review 2011-12-08T23:13:25Z Cunningham is the greater dancer, but Mr. Riener grows by tackling this. Review: A Lost Merce Cunningham Dance Solo, Found 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Alinder frequently alludes to Weston’s priapic tendencies and remarks on how female members of the group rejected gender stereotypes: Cunningham kept her maiden name, and Consuelo Kanaga refused to stop photographing black Americans. Review: ‘Group f.64,’ by Mary Street Alinder celebrates photography’s revolutionaries 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z To that end, Cunningham has a rule in the mornings, on his short walk from the loft to the writing space; he tries to avoid talking to anyone. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z Such differences existed between dancers in Cunningham’s day even in the 1950s. Review: Merce Cunningham’s Work, on Film, Then in the Flesh 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Cunningham, who died yesterday at the age of 87, was a master of sighting the stories daily, out-and-about style told. The purity of driven work: Bill Cunningham, model for a committed creative life 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Part of the curatorial intent of SAM is to place Cunningham’s influence in relation to Group f/64, a photographic movement marked by “a modernist, West Coast aesthetic,” Dedon describes. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Cunningham’s most frequent observation spot during the day was Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, where he became as much a part of the scenery as Tiffany & Company. Bill Cunningham, Legendary Times Fashion Photographer, Dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z "Marcel always gave one the sense of a human being who is ever calm," Cunningham once said, "as though days could go by, minutes could go by." Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z Cunningham didn’t say anything afterward, but he did smile. Learning to Dance Merce Cunningham: Risk in Calm Containers 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z But I met somebody who said: ‘Merce Cunningham – oh, is he still alive?’ ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham Countdown: A Monday With Merce 2011-12-05T15:28:53Z He will also perform Merce Cunningham’s role in a staging of Cunningham’s “Rebus.” Vail Festival to Return This Summer With Live Performances 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Some of Mr. Adès’s writing features a multiplicity of action that recalls some of the more intricate ensembles of Merce Cunningham. Review: Thomas Adès Calls for Complexity at City Center 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z After graduating from understudy to co-star on Broadway, Gertner now stars in the British premiere with Gavin Creel; the two play Elder Price and Elder Cunningham, two young missionaries sent to evangelise Uganda. Charm offensive: The Book of Mormon comes to London 2013-03-12T19:30:01Z The Green Burial Council estimates that one-quarter of older Americans want a green burial, and Ms. Cunningham said that about the same proportion of her clients make that choice. Baby Boomers Are Drawn to Green and Eco-Friendly Funerals 2014-03-12T22:33:56Z What surprises here is how at home Cunningham’s dances appear, whether they are shot outside in a grove of slender firs, in the gilded hall of a palace, or in an airplane hangar. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z He and Laura Cunningham, the woman he calls his life partner, were never able to share that kind of pleasure with a child of their own. Thomas Keller, an Exacting Chef at a Crossroads 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z To keep Mr. Gad, Mr. Rudin said, he committed to him as Cunningham if the show ever went to Broadway. Arts & Leisure: The Twisty Road to Uganda and Broadway 2011-05-13T12:35:30Z Depending on the moment and the circumstances, Cunningham fell into all three tribes. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z “So he crosses a lot of lines, a lot of boundaries,” Mr. Cunningham added. The Power Pastor: How A.R. Bernard Built a New York Megachurch 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z And while it would seem that Michelson has more in common with Cunningham — she would say that too — her way of going against the grain is pure Taylor. ArtsBeat: A Critics Conversation: Modern Dance Madness 2012-04-03T14:14:19Z Joanie is the feisty kid sister of the clean-cut teenager Richie Cunningham, around whom much of the show’s action revolves, and takes a great interest in his attempts to attract girls. Erin Moran obituary 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z In the SAM exhibition, each section of the hall traces Cunningham’s career through the phases of her creative cycles. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z “Biped,” the most sensationally imaginative work of Cunningham’s last 20 years, is at once a triumphant outpouring of pure dance invention and a masterpiece of theatrical poetry. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z In a Cunningham dance, the mind can wander, experience different rates of change, be baffled, engrossed, astonished, bored. ‘Cunningham’ Review: Exploring Space, Time and Dance in 3-D 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Cunningham studied and taught at the School of American Ballet in New York. MoveTube: A sublime snippet of Merce Cunningham dancing Septet 2012-05-23T13:02:50Z For a veteran of drinking-in-the-park-after-dark summonses back in Cunningham Park in Queens, this was the definition of sophistication. My Rome: Still a Classic Beauty 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z As a teenager, Partridge spent summers as a “spotter” at Cunningham’s studio, painting over small imperfections on photographic prints after they were developed. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z We’ve seen virtual orchestras, like the Cunningham Piano Online Ensemble, use Mozart to overcome the distance of nine countries and four generations. Perspective | In a time of uncertainty, classical music provides a sense of permanence 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The company’s women are led by the tall, blond Andrea Weber, who radiates more glee than any Cunningham dancer I’ve ever seen. Spring Performance: Dance: A Grand Finale: Cunningham?s Last Dances 2011-02-20T02:00:56Z Bill Cunningham, before the show, hurried over to give her a warm hug. Celebrating Oscar de la Renta and His Successor 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z “What they’re doing is very much in tune with the latest developments in volumetric video technologies,” the filmmaker Alla Kovgan, who directed the 3-D dance documentary “Cunningham,” said in a recent interview. Dancing for Many Cameras, in the Round: ‘It’s Muybridge on Steroids’ 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z She added a second man to the company in 1939, Merce Cunningham. The Ambiguous Layers of Martha Graham’s ‘El Penitente’ 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Like Cunningham’s dances — many of which are documented in “dance capsules,” or digital aids for reconstruction — the technique won’t survive or stay relevant on its own. In Cunningham Class, Physical Puzzles and Disciplined Energy 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z What makes it irreplaceable are the original performers, especially Cunningham himself, surely one of the greatest dancers of all time. ‘Cunningham’ Review: Exploring Space, Time and Dance in 3-D 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z This is the Cunningham that Kovgan offers up, in vivid three dimensions. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Michael Cunningham’s novel, Stephen Daldry’s film and the new opera all take us through one modest yet momentous day in the lives of these three women. Review: In ‘The Hours,’ Prima Donnas and Emotions Soar 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Bill Cunningham is not an innocent, but he is a rare purist, and this body of work is a testament to his undiminished idealism. Art Review: Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’: The Book as Exhibition 2014-03-13T20:25:16Z But in a weekend interview seemingly designed to make the press go apoplectic, 23-year-old British model Josie Cunningham has declared, “An abortion will further my career.” Getting an abortion as a career move 2014-04-21T18:49:00Z She prized the training she got, but came to realize that Cunningham’s purely abstract work wasn’t a good fit for her. Tonya Lockyer: ‘powerhouse personality’ turns Velocity around 2013-07-04T11:51:19Z Visiting the exhibition with the Times photographer Bill Cunningham, we were fascinated by the clever staging of the show, with portraits arranged in galleries that are filled with gilded chairs, as if for a défilé. Front Row: ‘Impressionism and Fashion’ at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris Looks at Impressionists’ Take on Style 2012-10-03T18:58:30Z Mr. Swinston’s vision — seemingly wedded to the Cunningham tradition — was seen as a step backward. Robert Swinston, a Merce Cunningham Disciple, Brings His Troupe to New York for a Debut 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z When the Merce Cunningham company first visited London in 1964, Cunningham took his dancers to the museum every day. The Body Beautiful: The Classical Ideal in Ancient Greek Art 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z “As much as I love my husband,” Ms. Cunningham said, “I want my own stone.” Baby Boomers Are Drawn to Green and Eco-Friendly Funerals 2014-03-12T22:33:56Z For the dancers, used to the kinetic motion of Petronio’s productions, it means learning a new and unintuitive way of moving, following precise directions from dancers who knew Cunningham, who died in 2009. ‘If the Dancer Dances’ Review: An Inheritance in Motion 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The revival, new on Tuesday, features Robert Swinston, the company’s current director of choreography, in the Cunningham role. Dance Review: A Golden Age Continues Without Its Midas 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z But the bare truth of Cunningham’s entire life was this: that she was a feeling creature, and she leveraged her art as a tool for the pure expression of her fullest humanity. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z This can be puzzling even for Cunningham devotees, since no choreographer worked harder in some works to make dances that were solely about dancing. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Cunningham liked the idea but not the draft, so he offered Robshaw and Chislett a fee and set up a meeting with Burgess. Melvin Burgess: a life in writing 2013-04-11T06:00:03Z “I remember my parents saying, ‘Oh, God, it’s awful when your friends begin to die,’ ” said Ms. Cunningham, who is 58. Baby Boomers Are Drawn to Green and Eco-Friendly Funerals 2014-03-12T22:33:56Z Smith says that, because Cunningham admitted the affair and then quickly moved on, the damage was minimal. Analysis | Cal Cunningham lost. Katie Hill resigned. Are we still put off by sex scandals? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z The final screening on Monday focuses on a 2005 film of “Biped,” a 1999 piece that made imaginative use of computer-generated imagery and that Cunningham likened to “the feeling of switching channels on the TV.” 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Cunningham, played with salty assurance by Julie Garner, demands that Judas’s appeal be heard by this purgatorial kangaroo court. Forum Theatre’s ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’ Cunningham himself used to say, “My mind is drawn to complexity.” Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z This performance, however, proved, as always, how superlatively Cunningham’s dances project from behind a proscenium arch. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Dance Company in ?Roaratorio? - Review 2011-12-08T23:13:25Z Bill Cunningham calls himself a street photographer, and in a way he is the innovator and prototype of that calling. Art Review: Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’: The Book as Exhibition 2014-03-13T20:25:16Z Photograph: Jeff Busby If Cunningham's Nearly Ninety is the headline attraction at this year's Dance Umbrella, there's still a bracing range of work in the festival's closing week. This week's new dance 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z "Listen, the best drama holds a mirror up to society," explained Cunningham. 'Game of Thrones' music comes to a stage near you 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Sure, no subsequent Cunningham score was ever such an assault on the nerves. Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z There are some 40 short video dance clips with sound selected by Mr. Vaughan and Trevor Carlson, a trustee of the Merce Cunningham Trust. Even in Death a Choreographer Is Mixing Art and Technology 2012-08-10T04:00:20Z So what would Bill Cunningham, the reporter-historian-nonphotographer photographer think of this book? The Amazing Treasure Trove of Bill Cunningham 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z In this series, part of the ongoing celebration of Cunningham’s birth, Anthology screens an array of films and videos. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Likewise, simultaneous multiplicity is central to Cunningham’s choreography. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Dance Company in ?Roaratorio? - Review 2011-12-08T23:13:25Z “Fashion Climbing” ends just as Cunningham has signed on as a columnist at Women’s Wear Daily. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Susie Cunningham, a Life-Cycle Celebrant, presided over the ceremony, which included lengthy vows, space for reflection, and a long family hug. A Date to Remember 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z In “Beach Birds,” however, or in any Cunningham work, any sense of theory or fashion or an auteur’s voice melts away. Dance Review | Lyon Opera Ballet: Works by Cunningham, Forsythe and Marin at the Joyce Theater 2010-03-11T20:24:00Z Johns designed the costumes for Cunningham’s “RainForest” dance — Warhol wanted the dancers to be naked, Cunningham didn’t and Johns’s flesh-colored, all-over tights were the compromise. Glenstone’s connections to dance, now and on the horizon 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z His marriage to Beatrice Cunningham ended with her death in 1989. Wolfgang Suschitzky, Photographer and Cinematographer, Dies at 104 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z "He who seeks beauty will find it," says Bill Cunningham, who's devoted his life to exactly that. 'Bill Cunningham New York': a picture-perfect look at photographer 2011-04-28T20:05:04Z Dutton will be publishing a book next month containing transcripts of the videos, as well as essays by writers including David Sedaris and Michael Cunningham. ArtsBeat: 'It Gets Better,' the Public Service Announcement 2011-02-21T19:19:21Z The 58-year-old's writing space is a tiny, rent-controlled apartment six flights up, a perfect bolt-hole, says Cunningham, and five minutes from the loft he shares with his partner of 24 years, Ken Corbett. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z This is the basic concept: Cunningham photographed Sherman, who was then in her sixties, in period clothing all over New York City. Bill Cunningham’s Favorite Muse 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Cunningham designed the costumes, sweatsuits bound with tape. At Work in Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Cunningham presented the world premiere of “Nearly Ninety,” predecessor to “Nearly 902,” in April 2009 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music to celebrate his 90th birthday. Dance Review: Cunningham Company Dances 'Nearly 902' in Montreal 2010-05-31T22:24:00Z At a hearing on Friday, Lydon’s lawyer, Mark Cunningham, took Jones through extracts from the guitarist’s book, including a passage describing Lydon as an “annoying little brat.” Not rotten: Ex-Sex Pistol defends TV show in row with singer 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Last year's prize was taken by Adam Mars-Jones, for his review of Michael Cunningham's By Nightfall in the Observer. Hatchet jobs: the 2012 shortlist 2013-01-08T15:49:39Z The Brooklyn artist Kenneth E. Parris III is on tour with members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, documenting, through a series of drawings and paintings, their two-year Legacy Tour. ArtsBeat Blog: Drawing Dance: The Cunningham Company in Berlin 2011-09-26T19:00:56Z The catalog will contain a new short story written in the show’s honor by Michael Cunningham, the author of the “Mrs. Dalloway”-inspired novel “The Hours.” The Met’s Next Big Fashion Show Revealed 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z “Cunningham,” she writes, “was not directly involved with a discourse on line.” Critic?s Notebook: Line in Dance? Let?s Go Back to the Drawing Board 2011-01-31T23:58:51Z Perhaps unsurprisingly, Mr. Cunningham was a reluctant participant in his own documentary. Bill Cunningham, Legendary Times Fashion Photographer, Dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Cunningham's focus on the minutiae of thought, on the mental fluctuations that preoccupied Woolf in her storytelling, is, he argues, the single thing the novel has over its racier competition. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z The dance vocabulary draws largely on Cunningham technique and style but sometimes with a strong if unconventional ballet emphasis. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center 2012-09-30T21:58:45Z Cunningham, although he enjoyed all these interpretations, liked to insist that his only specific reference in “Pond Way” was in basing some jumps on the skimming of stones on a pond surface. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Cunningham’s library contains more than 200 books stuffed with clippings, notes and photographs. Bill Cunningham’s Trademark Bicycle and Jacket Join the New-York Historical Society 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z If the way it was put together here, following Cunningham procedures, sometimes seemed to miss the master’s hand, that’s a reminder of how much magic was in the man, rather than the methods. Review: 100 (or So) Adventures in Attention, Merce Cunningham-Style 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Only Mr. Cunningham’s title story has an actual wicked stepmother. Review: ‘A Wild Swan,’ Michael Cunningham’s Scabrous Antidote to Happily Ever After 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z “She’s one of the finest dancers in New York right now,” said Patricia Lent, the Cunningham Trust’s licensing director, who worked closely with Harris in preparation for “Night of 100 Solos.” An Ailey Dancer’s Career Blooms, at the Company and Beyond 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Merce Cunningham’s tribute is set to the Fugue in C sharp minor in Volume 1 of “The Well-Tempered Clavier.” Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: Here and Now Forever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z He’s not Cunningham, his dynamics are less startling than those on the film, and he does not inflect its movements as yet as if from vital need. Review: A Lost Merce Cunningham Dance Solo, Found 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z “I’ve been doing Cunningham for so long it’s easy to be typecast.” Feiffer?s Dancer Returns to Leap Ever So Seriously 2011-07-06T22:01:16Z Byrd, the artistic director of Spectrum Dance Theater, got word of the situation through David Lieberman, the theatrical agent he and Spectrum share with the Cunningham company. Cunningham Legacy Tour almost skipped Seattle 2011-10-23T18:48:04Z Bill Cunningham delights in yanking back the curtain on the vicious rituals of copying that infiltrated the Paris salons of the postwar years. Bill Cunningham: An Enigma in a Blue Sanitation Worker’s Jacket 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Cunningham’s tireless dedication and insightful reportage exemplified The Courier’s social and political commitment. Harlem Wasn’t the Only Place With a Renaissance 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Michael Cunningham, who co-wrote the screenplay, praised the actors, but said he was disappointed with the outcome. Claire Danes's secret diary 2011-04-01T23:03:12Z It was a conclave of the elect, anointed by Mr. Cunningham for their singular, eye-catching style. They Dressed for Bill 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z It emerged in concert with Cunningham’s early work, as a training system for his dances: a means of preparing the body for the singular demands of his choreography. In Cunningham Class, Physical Puzzles and Disciplined Energy 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Famously, it was London that elevated Cunningham to the top rank of dance artists. ArtsBeat Blog: The Cunningham Countdown: A Day for Merce in Chicago 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z Daniel Arsham was barely aware of Merce Cunningham in 2005, when he got a call telling him that he was being considered as the set designer for the next work by Cunningham’s dance company. Daniel Arsham on Designing Sets for Merce Cunningham 2011-12-28T23:20:52Z The exhibit is "Cunningham in the Northwest," a dandy tribute to Centralia-born dance legend Merce Cunningham. Cornish stages a tribute to Centralia-born dance legend Merce Cunningham 2010-09-15T23:31:00Z “You can entertain a whim on a door handle,” Dr. Cunningham said. How Franklin Thwarted Counterfeiters 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z He calls Cunningham “a celebration of self-invention” — a contrast with Sheen’s carnival of self-destruction. Op-Ed Columnist: Hunting Birds of Paradise 2011-04-06T19:39:26Z "Super Hexagon is a game," the reviewer James Cunningham lamented, "about failing to not die."It's a return to the oldest of old-school game design, really. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: When Death Makes Us Laugh 2012-12-27T13:00:10Z He attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina, studying with Josef Albers and later living in the same building in New York with the composer John Cage and the choreographer Merce Cunningham. Ray Johnson’s Camera Was Disposable. The Photos Are Unforgettable. 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z “Computers are the future of dance,” Merce Cunningham announced to me at his company’s Christmas party in 1995. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z More than 35 years after the movie made unhinged mistress Alex Forrest an iconic stereotype and cemented Glenn Close's stardom, "Dirty John" creator Alexandra Cunningham invites us to reconsider the story from a modern lens. 7 shows worth looking out for, from a "Fatal Attraction" to "American Born Chinese" 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z And it puts me in mind of another story Cunningham told me, about a European revival of Minutiae. Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z Award-winning performer and choreographer Claire Cunningham will also star in Menage a Trois, a piece of dance theatre exploring her 20-year relationship with her crutches. Disabled artists launch festival 2012-07-10T15:30:41Z That someone else was Merce Cunningham, a giant of American dance, whose centennial is being honored this year with performances across the globe. Making Dances in the Shadow of Merce Cunningham 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Adam Mars-Jones's review of Michael Cunningham had everything a reader could hope for in a hostile review. Mars-Jones wins Hatchet Job prize 2012-02-08T10:23:29Z But he chose Cunningham because there are bigger issues at stake — combating climate change, expanding access to health care and beating back the coronavirus. Analysis | Cal Cunningham lost. Katie Hill resigned. Are we still put off by sex scandals? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z For all Cunningham's protestations, it cannot be said that the judging panel were entirely disinterested. Paul Bailey: I prefer humble prizes 2012-07-13T21:55:14Z Following the occasional practice of Cunningham himself when reviving dances, it redistributes the “Doubletoss” choreography among a different number of dancers and for a different duration. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z By taking liberally from the traditions of both ballet and Cunningham, she enriches both. Hail, Dance, and Farewell to the Critic’s Life 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Eventually, women simply stop wearing hats, and Cunningham closes his business. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z When a dancer leaves the Cunningham Company, there is a tradition where the remaining members honor the exiting dancer with a tribute show of highlights and bloopers. ArtsBeat Blog: Drawing Dance: Preparing to Say Farewell 2011-10-03T19:30:42Z The deeper connection between Cunningham and Abraham — and not just here — is an uncommon sense of quiet concentration, of mind-cleansing contemplation. Review: After Merce, the Dances Go On, and Go On to Inspire 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z It’s a Charles Atlas piece in which Cunningham appears as more, much more, than a guest but less than a full collaborator. Art in Review: CHARLES ATLAS: ?Joints Array? 2011-08-18T20:43:15Z Cunningham commended Germany for welcoming refugees fleeing war in their home countries. 'Thrones' actor surprises Syrian refugee now settled in Germany 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Generations of choreographers and dancers studied under her, including Merce Cunningham, Twyla Tharp and Paul Taylor as well as one first lady, Betty Ford. 70 and still fresh: For ‘Appalachian Spring’ anniversary, a Martha Graham primer Cunningham died in 2009, and one of the inspirations here came from a memorial performance of his dances held that October at New York's Park Avenue Armory, which I wrote about at the time. The Bride and the Bachelors: delighting in Duchamp 2013-02-15T15:32:55Z His company, as part of a legacy plan, was disbanded after his death; now his work is licensed to dance companies and educational institutions through the Merce Cunningham Trust. At Work in Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z After Merce Cunningham died in July, it likewise seemed in every sense that there could be nothing better to do than to watch his company, which danced some Events in New York the next weekend. Dance Review: Cunningham Company Dances 'Nearly 902' in Montreal 2010-05-31T22:24:00Z Cunningham’s mind was restless: He kept finding new ways to hold the mirror up to nature — and sometimes “nature” consisted simply of a taxing, challenging dance step. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z If Amanda Garrett’s pleasing mystique in the Carolyn Brown role wasn’t what you would expect from a Cunningham dancer, it didn’t mar an otherwise lucid rendering of an important Cunningham dance. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet at Gould Hall 2012-03-12T22:23:42Z They were borrowed from Warhol’s installation titled “Silver Clouds,” and it was Cunningham’s idea to co-opt them as decor. Glenstone’s connections to dance, now and on the horizon 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z At one point last year, Mr. Cunningham said, the locks on the mansion were changed. Trenton City Museum Faces Uncertain Future 2012-07-10T22:23:33Z The experience of Cunningham motionlessness, it should be said, is nothing like that of Cage’s silence. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z From the hazy aura of her Pictoralist romance to the sharp juxtaposition of shadows and discrete geometries under her modernist style, Cunningham tempered her steely perspective with an unapologetic tenacity. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Cunningham, a giant of the 20th-century art world, is the most prestigious alumnus of Cornish College of the Arts. Cornish College of the Arts presents a Merce Cunningham 'minEvent' 2011-02-01T01:01:29Z Much of her dance vocabulary is taken from ballet and from Merce Cunningham technique, both of which she employs in ways that should often impress devotees of either genre. Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz Brings a Certain Eccentricity to Dance at Joyce 2014-02-05T22:27:31Z Questions immediately arise for any observer: How good is a Cunningham dance when the Cunningham company is not performing it? Dance Review | Lyon Opera Ballet: Works by Cunningham, Forsythe and Marin at the Joyce Theater 2010-03-11T20:24:00Z Mr. Rauschenberg, in those days the Cunningham company’s stage manager as well as its chief designer, devised a machine that crossed the stage on a rope. Valda Setterfield Dies at 88; a Star in the Postmodern Dance Firmament 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z The trust is assuming oversight of Cunningham’s work and is taking over for the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, which will close next year. ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham's Legacy Lives On in Classes 2011-09-23T01:00:47Z When Merce Cunningham died in 2009, his dance company went on a farewell tour and then disbanded, according to his wishes. Legacy in Mind, Taylor Plans a Center for Modern Dance 2014-02-09T22:17:49Z When Cunningham and Mr. Atlas deviated from the Astaire rules — and they certainly did — it was always to make revealing points about the choreography and about perception. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z Cunningham comes to mind, too, because of the work’s detached interaction of movement, music and set. Review: At the Royal Ballet, a Landscape and Soundscape With Dance 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Other figures in other poses may bring to mind the dance vocabularies of Merce Cunningham or George Balanchine. Art in Review 2010-02-18T23:04:00Z Martha Graham, George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham and many others helped to lure dancers to the city. Class Is in Session. The Teacher? Mark Morris. 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Alexandra Cunningham, who formerly was a Desperate Housewives executive producer, will write for and serve as an executive producer on the reboot. Murder She Wrote May Be Getting a Reboot 2013-10-24T18:28:23Z A vast, two-part exhibition, “Merce Cunningham: Common Time” filled many rooms simultaneously at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The Best Dance of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Among the luminaries assembled at Carnegie Hall on Monday to memorialize Bill Cunningham, who died on June 25 at age 87, was former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. They Dressed for Bill 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Sure enough, the station unearthed a film canister labeled “ballet” with a high-quality print of Cunningham performing “Changeling” with breathtaking intensity and animalistic bodily contortions. Long-Lost Merce Cunningham Work Is Reconstructed in Boston 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z When not working on the Cunningham sets, Mr. Arsham shows his visual art in galleries. Daniel Arsham on Designing Sets for Merce Cunningham 2011-12-28T23:20:52Z They wrote a manuscript and sent it to Barry Cunningham, founder of Chicken House publishing, who bought the first Harry Potter novel for Bloomsbury before quitting to set up on his own. Melvin Burgess: a life in writing 2013-04-11T06:00:03Z Around this three orbit a motley, sometimes shifting group of friends, lovers and colleagues, who together form a small Brooklyn solar system that Mr. Cunningham charts with sympathy, humor and psychological precision. Books of The Times: ‘The Snow Queen,’ by Michael Cunningham 2014-04-27T21:00:17Z In “Second Hand,” Robert Swinston dances the role Cunningham made for himself. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z Mr. Wolff’s work, also known as “Music for Merce Cunningham,” was meant for use in “Rune,” a dance by Cunningham, but never served that purpose. Music Review: A Work?s Long Road to New York 2010-12-22T23:06:06Z Cunningham’s nature works, by contrast, seem to realize zones in which flora and fauna are undisturbed by any human presence — as if in a wildlife documentary. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The most intense performance at the Merce Cunningham Studio on Friday was given by a dead choreographer. Dance Review: Sokolow Theater/Dance Ensemble at Cunningham Studio - Review 2011-11-13T23:09:41Z But the best of these portrait films are surely the two works Dean made with Merce Cunningham in the last years of the choreographer's life. Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011-01-01T00:05:49Z And their performances are proof that one need not have been a member of the Cunningham company to dance his work thrillingly well. Review: After Merce, the Dances Go On, and Go On to Inspire 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Dating from 2003, "Split Sides," like "BIPED," is one of Cunningham's late pieces. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z Logan Cunningham, narrator of the popular downloadable game Bastion, served as host of the awards presentation for about 250 fans at the Cantor Film Center at New York University. ArtsBeat: Skyrim Wins Video Game Critics Award 2012-02-03T19:32:45Z Photograph: Bill Cunningham/The New York Times He was a devoted teacher, concerned about his students, whose careers he followed. Leo Steinberg obituary 2011-04-12T16:56:17Z Starting in 1968 and continuing through the mid-1970s, Cunningham undertook a particularly involved project to document Manhattan’s architectural and fashion history. | A History of New York Fashion and Architecture, Through Bill Cunningham’s Lens 2014-03-13T22:09:46Z But downward is not where Cunningham ever cast his gaze. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Bill Cunningham, in a puffy jacket the color of DeRay Mckesson’s vest, delightedly snapped photographs of partygoers while partygoers delightedly snapped photographs of him. The Magnificent New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z She is the daughter of Catherine E. Cunningham and Gerard A. Cunningham of Stratford, Conn. The bride’s father is the director of energy analysis for Black Gold Investors in New York. Katherine Cunningham, Mark Rutledge 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z To Mr. Cunningham, it was becoming clear that his days as a milliner were numbered. Bill Cunningham, Legendary Times Fashion Photographer, Dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z In the review of Michael Cunningham's By Nightfall which brought the Golden Hatchet my way I grilled the book fairly intensively, but I tried to play by the rules. Adam Mars-Jones: 'The only bad review is one whose writing is soggy' 2012-02-10T13:50:00Z The premise of their work was intriguing: A response to a lost dance-play written, directed and choreographed by Cunningham with a score for piano and voice by John Cage. Review: Rebel Yells and Chants of ‘Adieu!’ From Ballet de Lorraine 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z It was almost 50 years earlier that Cunningham began partnering dance and technology. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Yet the resemblances to Cunningham are equally salient: particular coordinations, a tautness of line and a complex multiplicity of action. Review: Taking a Chance on Merce Cunningham 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z The choreography, with its classical/Cunningham underpinning, was always clear; the dancing, by some of the best performers around, including Greenberg, always crystalline. Neil Greenberg’s “This” 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s too bad that the documentary, which errs with a self-serving scene of employees at The Times feting Mr. Cunningham, didn’t, like its subject, stick to the streets. Film: The New Directors/New Films Series Begins 2010-03-23T22:03:00Z This spring the Harkness Dance Center is contributing to the celebration of Merce Cunningham’s centennial with performances and other events. Harkness Dance Center Set to Expand Thanks to a $5 Million Gift 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z To this day, Cunningham is regarded as one of the leading American photographers of her time. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The same ethos informed the design of the interiors of the lobby bar and library, overseen by Kristen Lee, Brady Cunningham and Joe Cole of the Los Angeles fashion and lifestyle boutique Tenoversix. | A Hotel in Dallas Where the Art Is as Impressive as the Rooms 2013-06-03T20:11:09Z At various points during the remaining run of the show, live dancers, former members of Cunningham’s company, will perform here. Art Review: ‘Dancing Around the Bride,’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-12-06T23:01:56Z One casual miracle of Cunningham dance theater is its complex multiplicity of incident. It Was a Happy Month, Mostly, for Modernists 2011-04-01T21:14:26Z But here Cunningham recalls another playwright in that movement, Eugene Ionesco. Dance Review: A Long-Absent Comedy Leaps Out for a Farewell 2011-03-06T20:22:36Z She has written about how several sections of “Preludes and Fugues” include tributes to choreographers who influenced her early on: Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine. Review: From Twyla Tharp, 2 New Pieces for Her Anniversary Tour 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z But its cumulative effect, she added, is to create what Cunningham said he intended dance to be: “a spiritual exercise in physical form.” Dance Listings for May 15-21 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Like Mr. Cunningham, “the Duchess of Carnegie Hall” was a devoted collector of vintage clothes. Art Review: Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’: The Book as Exhibition 2014-03-13T20:25:16Z An old-school man in a new-school world — he doesn't use computers, digital cameras or even, according to The New Yorker, voice mail — Cunningham whenever possible works for free. 'Bill Cunningham New York': a picture-perfect look at photographer 2011-04-28T20:05:04Z I recently had the rare opportunity to interview Mr. Johns, who is 82, and asked him questions about his work with Cunningham, who died in 2009. Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z The Merce Cunningham Dance Company disbanded when faced with that prospect; others, like the Martha Graham Dance Company, evolved into repertory groups. Sending the Trisha Brown Legacy Back Into the World 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The agent’s insinuations are broadcast nationally by Cunningham, whom Bateman had transformed from a washed-up reporter into a $10-million-a-year cable superstar. ‘Before the Fall’: From the creator of ‘Fargo,’ a thriller that echoes real-life events 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z “For many people, this forest was freedom,” Cunningham says. At South Carolina’s only national park, paddle through some of the country’s oldest trees 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z At times, animated images loom over them, created from the computer software Cunningham sometimes used to develop his choreography. Review | ‘Merce Cunningham at 100’: Beautiful but missing a spark 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Her daughter, Ann Pamela Cunningham, founded the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, an organization with a decidedly Southern sensibility that also was the first national preservation organization in the country. Where to meet real Americans: Touring presidential homes 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Speaking of double, arts writer Michael Upchurch made a point of going to both of Merce Cunningham Dance Company's farewell performances at the Paramount. Three days, seven Seattle arts reviews 2011-10-31T17:01:02Z The Group, formalized in 1990, served as an apprentice program for the Cunningham company, with whose members its four dancers shared studios and took class. ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham Countdown: Saying Goodbye to the RUGs 2011-12-01T18:44:42Z For years he designed sets and costumes for the leading lights of avant-garde dance, including Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown, and savored artistic collaborations. A Rare Look at Rauschenberg’s Second Act 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z With Merce Cunningham Dance Company about to do a vanishing act, the dance world is definitely losing some colors on the spectrum. Cunningham company offers a dazzling farewell 2011-10-30T23:02:04Z It is, Byrd says, his favorite Cunningham piece, thanks in part to hints of narrative in it that are highly atypical for the choreographer. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z Miss Ruth School of Dance This photo was taken by Bill Cunningham, whose writing was as artful as his photographs. Perpetual Motion 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z A reader learns something about Cunningham’s relationship with fashion, but not very much about Cunningham himself. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Her dance teachers over the years included Merce Cunningham, Mary Anthony and Judith Dunn. Elaine Summers, Who Meshed Dance and Film, Dies at 89 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Four years after Linsanity hit the New York Knicks, Mr. Lin, now a guard with the Brooklyn Nets, will talk with Vinson Cunningham, a writer for The New Yorker. New Yorker Festival to Feature David Letterman, Louis C.K. 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z The title recalls the book of the same name by photographer Michael Cunningham and writer Craig Marberry, which celebrates African American women and their hats. He’s designed hats for Dior. Now, he’s created one inspired by the African American Museum. 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Cunningham is the only dead choreographer whose work this troupe includes; he’s also the greatest and, it’s fair to say, the most divisive, choreographer it programs. L.A. Dance Project Takes On Merce Cunningham 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z In 2017, a successful $75 million fund-raising campaign, an ambitious Merce Cunningham exhibit and the reopening of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden with over a dozen new works indicated a banner year in the making. Olga Viso, Embattled Leader of Walker Art Center, Steps Down 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z A month before he died, Cunningham announced his legacy plan, the last of his mold-breaking policies. Merce Cunningham’s Centennial Will Bring a Global Celebration 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Directed by Callie T. Wiser; written by David Espar and Ms. Wiser, based in part on the book by David Cunningham; produced by Ms. Wiser; Mark Samels, executive producer for “American Experience.” ‘Klansville U.S.A.’ Explores the Ku Klux Klan of the ’60s 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Though the Merce Cunningham Dance Company closed at the end of 2011, 15 of its former dancers are still performing here, though not all together. Critic’s Notebook: Former Merce Cunningham Dancers at Philadelphia Museum 2012-12-23T22:53:57Z Cunningham was arrested in March in Sonoma County, California, and charged with felony grand theft. World's most prolific Star Wars collector appeals to fans after 'devastating' theft 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z It’s an irresistible mystery and, for the icing on his fictional cake, Hawley adds a satirical portrait of a cable news star named Bill Cunningham that will delight some readers and outrage others. ‘Before the Fall’: From the creator of ‘Fargo,’ a thriller that echoes real-life events 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z On a recent frigid Sunday at the Park Slope Food Coop, Amy Cunningham was giving a PowerPoint talk on green funerals to a graying crowd of about two dozen, many of them note-takers. Baby Boomers Are Drawn to Green and Eco-Friendly Funerals 2014-03-12T22:33:56Z To add to the mystery, the only time Byrd saw Cunningham lose his composure was when he was asked about the "story" in the "Quartet." 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z The cupped, quotidian shapes of petals were sites of wonder to Cunningham, who framed her compositions as a reflection of their inner balance. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The Walker’s galleries will also house performances of Cunningham’s work — beginning with an Event, or a site-specific collage of excerpts from his choreography — and several new commissions. Dance This Season: Tap, Ballet and the Inexplicable 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Charles Atlas, filmmaker and video artist I met Michael at a gallery opening in London in 1981 when I was touring with Merce Cunningham. ‘Everything Crossed Over’: Michael Clark’s Cheeky World of Dance 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z There’s always a Cunningham, a Balanchine, a Fosse. Reggie Wilson Explores the Power of Moving Together 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Merce Cunningham used chance to choreograph his legendary solo dance “Changeling.” Long-Lost Merce Cunningham Work Is Reconstructed in Boston 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z To Cunningham, the can-do seer of modern dance, the computer as an ancillary muse was as obvious as the glass of red wine he was sipping. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Thankfully, Ms. Chalfant and Mr. Cunningham are on hand to provide anchoring emotional truth in the Churches’ conflicting memories of the past and the play’s affecting observations on encroaching mortality. Theater Review: Kathleen Chalfant and John Cunningham in ?Painting Churches? 2012-03-07T03:00:16Z The otherworldly characters — as in “Giselle,” a ballet Cunningham knew well, and several other classically Romantic ballets of the 19th century — have the larger, more upright and dancier vocabulary. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z Merce Cunningham died before I finished cutting my film, Craneway Event. Merce Cunningham's last dance 2010-04-27T20:35:00Z “The primary culprit was the calendar,” wrote Todd Cunningham of The Wrap. 7 Reasons Nobody Went to the Movies on a Summer Holiday Weekend 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Cunningham’s “Walkaround Time,” a 48-minute tribute to Marcel Duchamp with designs by Jasper Johns, has no fewer than 16 performances at the Paris Opera in April and May. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Cunningham’s position as a perennial outsider among a set of consummate insiders was part of what made him uniquely well suited to The Times. Bill Cunningham, Legendary Times Fashion Photographer, Dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z "It really is big, isn't it," said Cunningham, as he gazed from the Warner Bros. platform over the sea of people. At Comic-Con, managing 'Game of Thrones' cast is an epic in itself 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Rauschenberg made it while he was in Tokyo with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, serving as designer of the troupe’s sets and costumes. Glenstone’s connections to dance, now and on the horizon 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Over four decades, Mr. Atlas made 39 Cunningham films, 12 of them with Cunningham as his collaborator. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z Ultimately, Cunningham spent much of the war giving hat-making lessons to the wives of officers. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Last year, dance companies around the world celebrated the centennial of Merce Cunningham’s birth by performing some of his vast repertory. Make That 101: Cunningham Centennial Moves Online 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z As sex scandals go in a post-Trump world, Cal Cunningham’s texts with a woman who is not his wife were relatively tame. Analysis | Cal Cunningham lost. Katie Hill resigned. Are we still put off by sex scandals? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Ms. Cunningham has been with him for 23 years. Thomas Keller, an Exacting Chef at a Crossroads 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z At different points, he approached both Cunningham and Ms. Brown with the idea of collaborating on a dance. Petronio Company to Perform Other Choreographers’ Works 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z At a first look at rehearsals for the concert on Wednesday night, actor Liam Cunningham was impressed at the "enormous" scope of the production. 'Game of Thrones' music comes to a stage near you 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Several of the Cunningham/Atlas choices are likely to stand out as extraordinary for years to come. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Trisha Brown, those luminaries of modern and postmodern dance, were part of his inner circle. Renegades and Radical Bodies in 3 New York Exhibitions 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z In person, he reminded me of many eras of himself: the homespun earnestness of Richie Cunningham; the wise tone of his narration on “Arrested Development”; some small hint of Winthrop, in “The Music Man.” To Mars, Not a Moment Too Soon 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Carol Teitelbaum, a former Cunningham dancer, wrote in a recent email that what characterizes the nature studies is an “offset rhythmic effect”: Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Cunningham would show up at rehearsal with his legal pads full of the stick figures he had drawn of the Michelin men. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Few have followed those rules better than Cunningham and Mr. Atlas. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z It expands on a 1997 Aperture venture, “Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years,” a book by the Cunningham archivist David Vaughan chronicling Cunningham’s life and career through 1994, when he was 75. Even in Death a Choreographer Is Mixing Art and Technology 2012-08-10T04:00:20Z It was published in what was very likely Mr. Cunningham’s first official Evening Hours column for The New York Times. Bill Cunningham’s Columns, the Early Days 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The fear and confusion flashing across Mr. Cunningham’s face are heartbreaking. Theater Review: Kathleen Chalfant and John Cunningham in ?Painting Churches? 2012-03-07T03:00:16Z Elder Cunningham is like Dorothy; he just drops in and tries to do the right thing. 'Mormon' is more than just easy laughs 2011-06-03T15:46:00Z The Philharmonic will play a full program on Wednesday on the Great Lawn and travel to Cunningham Park in Queens on Thursday and to Prospect Park in Brooklyn on Friday. Shanghai Symphony and Philharmonic to Play Great Lawn 2010-07-12T22:15:00Z "Iron," Cunningham writes, "was the backbone that made it happen." The story of the Volunteer Park Conservatory, turning 100 this year 2012-08-08T23:27:05Z Mr. Platt’s sensational Elder Cunningham is a hapless ironist, who keeps assuming and discarding the voices he’s heard on television because he doesn’t trust his own. ‘The Book of Mormon’ on Broadway Retains Its Charms 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Cunningham started as a milliner with a shop in Carnegie Hall. Op-Ed Columnist: Hunting Birds of Paradise 2011-04-06T19:39:26Z Mr. Cunningham saw Mr. Aguiar working around the outside of the store and started clicking away. At the Easter Parade, a Wedding Many Outfits in the Making 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z In particular, it seems preoccupied with demonstratively taking steps outside the Cunningham aesthetic. Dance Review: Cunningham Work at Summer Stages Dance in Boston 2012-07-27T21:13:23Z The tour culminates in a full performance of the entire Cunningham minEvent in the Grand Entrance Lobby to live music by Cornish's Indeterminacy Ensemble. Cornish College of the Arts presents a Merce Cunningham 'minEvent' 2011-02-01T01:01:29Z More than two years after his death, the choreographer Merce Cunningham has grown only more unknowable. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z Exactingly annotated by Amy C. Beal, a scholar and writer, and handsomely packaged, this collection makes a substantial case for Cunningham as a vital force in modern music. Avant-Garde Dancing Feet,Tickling Composers? Minds 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z Collaboration is an intrinsic ingredient for this filmmaker, who worked frequently with Merce Cunningham. 10 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z A Cunningham season could be fun, drama, challenge, poetry and therapy. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe?s Last U.S. Repertory Night - Review 2011-12-11T23:27:57Z Still, Cunningham maintained her own creative language, often with an element of sensuality, which lingers throughout her works like an indelible fingerprint. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z From his biographers, Ms. Kovgan knew Cunningham had been filmed dancing “Changeling” by a television studio in Germany in 1958, but “Changeling” was not on its list of archived Cunningham material. Long-Lost Merce Cunningham Work Is Reconstructed in Boston 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Cunningham's description was a typically understated account of a scene that would have awed many. Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z In fiction, we have Michael Cunningham’s 1990 novel “A Home at the End of the World,” which explores the boundaries of friendship and polyamory. What to do after Orlando: Read LGBTQ stories 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Here he ignores the rhythms altogether; the music is, as in Cunningham, simply there, as six dancers explore partnering configurations as thoroughly as they ignored them in “Catalog.” Dance in Review 2011-06-17T22:48:58Z The candid, cross-generational dialogue sheds light on dimensions of Cunningham’s legacy too rarely discussed on the record. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Probably, though not admittedly, Cunningham started working with it because his once enormously gifted body, which had been the source of his ideas, could no longer serve as a laboratory. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The poignancy of seeing what is now Cunningham's final work is intensified by the discovery that it contains some of the most limpidly beautiful movement of his career. Merce Cunningham Company ? review 2010-10-27T22:00:00Z The recordings run from 1954, the year after the troupe was formed, to 2009, when Cunningham was still making new work. Avant-Garde Dancing Feet,Tickling Composers? Minds 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z What Cunningham wanted to happen, his dancers agree, was often impossible, as two other living links to the choreographer attest. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z The remaining performances by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company are therefore the most exceptional events of the rest of the year. The New Season: Merce Cunningham Legacy Tour Prepares to Take Final Bow 2011-09-18T04:00:03Z “At that point in my life, I was in need of a certain level of softness, and Michael provided it,” Ms. Cunningham said. From Dating to Marriage, He Had a 5-Prong Plan 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z For my color, I go to Tracey Cunningham, and for cuts I normally get a trim when I’m doing a photo shoot. Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Beauty Advice, Even Though Her Daughter Is the Expert 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z To be photographed by Bill Cunningham, spontaneously, enthusiastically, on the street, put an extra skip into many a mode-ish step. Bill Cunningham: An Enigma in a Blue Sanitation Worker’s Jacket 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Cunningham bristled at the idea that the dance had a narrative component. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z Mr. Baryshnikov recalled taking Cunningham to Studio 6A in 2007, two years after he opened the center on the top three floors of the building on West 37th Street. Baryshnikov Plans Fund-Raising to Give Artists Space 2014-01-15T23:30:41Z Cunningham died more than two years ago, but now his company is in its last seven weeks. ArtsBeat Blog: The Cunningham Countdown: A Day for Merce in Chicago 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z When the title “funeral director” popped up on Ms. Cunningham’s LinkedIn profile, she said many of her connections were shocked, but then they weren’t. Baby Boomers Are Drawn to Green and Eco-Friendly Funerals 2014-03-12T22:33:56Z Soon he is encouraging Cunningham to break off from Graham and, as Kuhn puts it, “strike out on his own.” The World of Dance in Letters, Locations and Clothes 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z It was the key to Cunningham's aesthetic creed that his collaborators were given complete creative freedom. Merce Cunningham Company ? review 2010-10-27T22:00:00Z In “Bill Cunningham New York,” a fond 2010 documentary about his life, he was asked this question and said no, albeit somewhat ambiguously. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z While up in the clouds, Mr. Harris surprised Ms. Cunningham with what he called a “proposal,” asking her to be his girlfriend. From Dating to Marriage, He Had a 5-Prong Plan 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Though this wasn’t the only score of his that made listeners wonder whether he entertained ideas of representation, mimesis, evocation in his work, he — like Cunningham — kept quiet about these matters. Review: John Cage’s Historical Niche, a Legacy in Letters 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z From Passion To Transcendence Along with George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham classics this season, dance audiences will see new choreographic works as well as international artists. The New Season 2012-09-07T21:04:55Z Weston and Cunningham—f.64 was one of the first modern-art movements to include women as equals—pioneered a particularly Californian modernism. Hotshots 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Dance is among the ingredients and, perhaps because of that, the movement passages for Joey Kipp, which borrow from Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham and ballet, lack shrewdness and refinement. Dance Review: Through a Portal, to a World Where Listless Blue Creatures Await 2011-07-24T21:41:17Z In blogs published in the New York Times, Tharp wrote that sections of the work reflected the influence or inspiration of Merce Cunningham, Jerome Robbins, Martha Graham and George Balanchine. Twyla Tharp's 50th anniversary program, while graceful, becomes predictable 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z But another section, featuring dancers costumed in gold spandex leotards and tights, calls to mind Merce Cunningham in a sadder sense. Review: ‘Unknown Pleasures’ Makes Unfulfilled Promises 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Part of the impressive authority of “Bracko” and “Nox” was their seeming freedom from overt Cunningham influence. Dance Review: Cunningham Work at Summer Stages Dance in Boston 2012-07-27T21:13:23Z Whenever the Cunningham company performed, a shared style held this complex world together, like gravity. Review: 100 (or So) Adventures in Attention, Merce Cunningham-Style 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Now, instead of relying on steps, Cunningham could arrange the relationships of the dancers’ limbs as they moved. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Before Merce Cunningham died in 2009, he decided his dance company would die with him. Merce Cunningham, Looking Beyond the Movement 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Cunningham also added short dance transitions that proved to be his final choreography. Dance Review: Cunningham Company Dances 'Nearly 902' in Montreal 2010-05-31T22:24:00Z The mayor’s proclamation speaks not only of Cunningham’s “lifelong passion for dance” and the inspiration of his innovative choreography, but also of “the final generation of dancers chosen and trained by Cunningham himself.” ArtsBeat Blog: The Cunningham Countdown: A Day for Merce in Chicago 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z This is the melancholy secret Mr. Cunningham knows and tells so well, time and time again: Happiness is as much something you remember as something you experience. Review: ‘A Wild Swan,’ Michael Cunningham’s Scabrous Antidote to Happily Ever After 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Then there are the star choreographers who dance, like Merce Cunningham in a duet with Carolyn Brown and Twyla Tharp leading community volunteers in a terrific excerpt. ArtsBeat: Dance Along With Twyla and Other Online Nuggets 2011-03-29T20:43:00Z The interview is the latest episode of “Mondays with Merce,” the series of 13 to 18-minute documentary programs about Cunningham made available online. ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham Countdown: A Monday With Merce 2011-12-05T15:28:53Z Often abstract in the vein of Merce Cunningham, at whose company he studied in the 1980s, his work possesses a probing, interrogational intensity. Spectrum's Donald Byrd asks everything of his dancers, and his audience 2012-11-28T23:59:27Z Mr. King landed the first of three Cunningham commissions through Cage, who was intrigued by a recording of prepared-violin pieces that Mr. King sent him in 1984. Avant-Garde Dancing Feet,Tickling Composers? Minds 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z “My father was always tired and always hungry, while the father of Richie Cunningham was never hungry.” Jovanotti, Italian Rapper, Brings His Act to New York 2012-10-03T22:23:44Z “Biped,” made when Cunningham was 80, also incorporated motion capture, which added new drama to the stage. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z For instance, I’m a big chore-coat guy; the Bill Cunningham kind of jacket. A Street Wear Original Starts Its Own Label 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Merce Cunningham, who died just a month after Bausch, decreed that his company would survive him by only two years. Guarding a Bright Flame?s Afterglow 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z “I couldn’t wait to get back to Cunningham.” Lucinda Childs Gets Off the Floor in New Work for the Graham Company 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Ellen Cornfield, another former dancer, mentioning “a river of feeling” in some Cunningham works, spoke of how that notion showed “not a linear narrative but an essence and form of drama.” Dance Review: Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on: A Tribute to Cunningham 2011-07-17T21:58:41Z Just before the debut, the Daily Beast’s Kyndall Cunningham predicted “Judge Steve Harvey” would leave viewers laughing and in awe of the host’s branding capabilities. Here comes the judge: Steve Harvey an initial hit 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Cunningham conveys all the necessary information in their forthright gazes. Review | In the galleries: A surrealist painter inspires a photographer 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z According to Cunningham the title came from its four sections. Dance Review: A Golden Age Continues Without Its Midas 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z To express this, he pulls from Dominican folk dance and the technique of Merce Cunningham. Dance Listings for April 4-10 2014-04-03T22:42:35Z Cunningham first experimented with tossing coins and dice to determine combinations of movements while teaching at Black Mountain College from 1948 to 1953. Long-Lost Merce Cunningham Work Is Reconstructed in Boston 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z But no Cunningham work ever belongs to one idiom alone. Dance Review: A Long-Absent Comedy Leaps Out for a Farewell 2011-03-06T20:22:36Z Mr. Bacanovic, 54 and a management consultant, said he subsequently appeared in Mr. Cunningham’s Evening Hours a few more times. Bill Cunningham’s Columns, the Early Days 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z In 1969, while working as a stage manager, a theater colleague who was working as an archivist for Cunningham asked if Atlas could help stage a performance in Rome. Science Is on His Dance Card 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Cunningham exudes the delighted mischievousness of a child as he describes sneaking into galas for the sole purpose of admiring the ladies. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The worlds that Mr Cunningham so elegantly evokes are just as troubling and disappointing as our own, and that is surprisingly comforting. Duty and the beast 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z When I first saw Mr. Alston’s work in London in 1978, he was still working independently of music, in the Cunningham manner, though, even then, his use of falling off balance was quite unlike Cunningham’s. Dance Review: Richard Alston Dance at Peak Performances in Montclair 2012-12-15T00:49:25Z In “Nearly Ninety” — dancing the last great duet of Cunningham’s career, which they performed at its 2009 premiere — they were all give and take, balancing while supporting each other, switching rapidly between dependence and independence. Critic’s Notebook: Former Merce Cunningham Dancers at Philadelphia Museum 2012-12-23T22:53:57Z But the editor did not anticipate that the idea of elevating Mr. Cunningham would enrage him. Bill Cunningham’s Columns, the Early Days 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z As a college freshman at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, he attended a Merce Cunningham performance. James Welling's 'Choreograph' a bold dance between the real and the abstract 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Many of those listeners, he said, had attended Cunningham events for decades. Avant-Garde Dancing Feet,Tickling Composers? Minds 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z Ms. Cunningham is disabled, and her dexterity with crutches provides the show’s main physical appeal. On Artists and Audiences at American Realness 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z There’s a poignant moment in the film when Cunningham is asked if he has ever had a romantic relationship in his life. Op-Ed Columnist: Hunting Birds of Paradise 2011-04-06T19:39:26Z And the dancers moved in firm paths along and across the stage in geometric trajectories that — like the lines of his dancers’ bodies — showed Cunningham’s importance to the Abstract Expressionist painters of his generation. Review: Merce Cunningham’s Work, on Film, Then in the Flesh 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Her work deploys physical ideas and images from Petipa, Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Nijinsky and more, but shifts lightly among them. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s Witty Dance Secrets in London 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Three simple words, but the revolutionary choreographer Merce Cunningham, who died in 2009, used them often. Robert Swinston, a Merce Cunningham Disciple, Brings His Troupe to New York for a Debut 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z It’s fascinating to see her as the source of her style, an original blend of athleticism and formality that might be labeled “Merce Cunningham Goes to the Gym.” Review: In Liz Gerring’s Latest, Words Dance, Too 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z McGregor choreographs with an unusually wide palette, channelling Frederick Ashton for the eccentricities and robustness of his human characters, and Merce Cunningham for the scattered asymmetries of the raven chorus. Royal Ballet: Raven Girl – review 2013-05-27T16:39:13Z Nor does Kovgan shy away from the inevitable downsides of Cunningham’s approach or personality. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z “RainForest” is the latest work added by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company to the repertory of its Legacy Tour. Dance Review: Jungle Gymnasts on a Farewell Tour 2011-07-11T22:45:25Z It’s an event in the Merce Cunningham sense, combining old pieces in a new order for a new occasion and space. Review: Finding Hope in an Unfinished Pam Tanowitz Premiere 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z Critic Adam Mars-Jones has won the inaugural Hatchet Job of the Year award for his scathing review of Michael Cunningham's latest work, By Nightfall. Mars-Jones wins Hatchet Job prize 2012-02-08T10:23:29Z But he quickly learned that his work with Cunningham would involve an unusual form of un-mentoring. Daniel Arsham on Designing Sets for Merce Cunningham 2011-12-28T23:20:52Z In the documentary on his life, Mr. Cunningham was portrayed as old-fashioned, frugal and resistant to advances in technology. Bill Cunningham, photographer of New York street fashion, dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Cunningham drifted into journalism at the behest of his society friends, writing about fashion for Women’s Wear Daily and the Chicago Tribune, among other publications. Bill Cunningham, photographer of New York street fashion, dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Merce Cunningham, for one, took a radical approach, stating a month before his death in 2009 that his company would dissolve after a final, two-year tour. The Paul Taylor Company Without Paul Taylor 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Cunningham writes with forthright simplicity, but he was a complex man. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z In her book "Crystal Palaces: Garden Conservatories of the United States," Anne S. Cunningham reveals that the first greenhouses were built in ancient Rome using semitransparent mica as glazing. The story of the Volunteer Park Conservatory, turning 100 this year 2012-08-08T23:27:05Z Cunningham, when pressed, actually cited Krishna and his handmaidens as the starting point for this quartet. MoveTube: A sublime snippet of Merce Cunningham dancing Septet 2012-05-23T13:02:50Z Producing the publication, due out in a few weeks, cost “significant six figures,” Mr. Cunningham said in a recent interview in his apartment, against a backdrop of Zimmermann copper bowls and a spidery iron candelabrum. Antiques: New Study of Marie Zimmermann, Metalsmith 2011-11-17T22:32:18Z But great dancing has no age limit: Robert Swinston, who joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1980, took on Cunningham’s role in “Quartet” and epitomized, with searing simplicity, the act of isolation. American Ballet Theater?s New Generation Comes Into Focus 2011-12-17T05:26:18Z That will give the dancers more chances to tap into Cunningham’s notion of play. At Work in Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Like the comedy, this genre cropped up regularly in Cunningham seasons until his final years. Dance Review: A Long-Absent Comedy Leaps Out for a Farewell 2011-03-06T20:22:36Z Graham demonstrated that a dance has its own life, often independent from music, and in this she paved the way for Cunningham’s more radical independence in ways that have seldom been acknowledged. Dance Review: Martha Graham Company in Old and New Works 2014-03-23T22:39:40Z In 1999, Cunningham invited him to dance a new duet with him, “Occasion Piece,” which had four performances — Cunningham’s last — that July at what was then the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center. Baryshnikov Plans Fund-Raising to Give Artists Space 2014-01-15T23:30:41Z Mr. Fajans was building a set for “Mondays With Merce,” a video series devoted to the work of the choreographer Merce Cunningham. Review: A Cross-Generational Bond, Conveyed in Dance 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Cunningham, who first appeared there in 1955, observes, “It was a place where people, quietly or not, think differently and act differently.” Jacob’s Pillow documentary reveals chapter of dance history 2013-07-24T22:09:08Z Mr. Cunningham’s novels offer fellowship to the disappointed, sympathy to the lost. Review: ‘A Wild Swan,’ Michael Cunningham’s Scabrous Antidote to Happily Ever After 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Kernis is 51 and Dove and Cunningham each are 58. Begley, Cunningham elected into arts academy 2011-03-09T13:01:07Z Police didn't provide details, but they said when officers arrived, both the 70-year-old Cunningham and a 16-year-old boy were found dead from gunshot wounds. Member of Jerry Lee Lewis band killed in shootout 2012-10-15T00:21:11Z In the program, shown at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studios on Friday evening, five choreographers unveiled works that were created in tandem with the music. Dance Review: Take Dance and Pulse at Merce Cunningham Dance Studios - Review 2011-12-18T22:33:43Z Curiously enough, in a New York Times column 27 years ago, Bill Cunningham remarked on a street-style trend of men in tights, which he attributed to the influence of Jean Paul Gaultier. The Few, the Brave: Men in Tights 2014-04-04T22:36:57Z For a 2009 tour around northern France that he was too ill to attend himself, Cunningham went a step farther. Daniel Arsham on Designing Sets for Merce Cunningham 2011-12-28T23:20:52Z “It’s not about super uber danger for us,” Ms. Cunningham said. In Transit Blog: Trips from Outside Magazine 2014-03-06T22:00:13Z The critic David Vaughan once wrote that the ABC of contemporary classicism was Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham. Three Stars of World Dance Traditions Converge on New York 2012-09-09T04:55:01Z Men, you’re in luck: Cunningham says they are primarily focused on scouting male models at Coachella, but will also be seeking women with model potential. Going To Coachella? You Could Be Scouted By A Modeling Agent 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z He was already a ballet fan, and after seeing work by Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, he decided that he wanted to study dance instead. 2010-01-08T20:23:00Z Fellow food writer Marion Cunningham, a champion of family mealtime, wrote in her popular “Supper Book” that “sometimes eating supper alone feels private, quiet, and blessedly liberating.” On Eating Alone in Paris 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “Those who read a lot will enhance their verbal intelligence,” write Cunningham and Stanovich, “that is, reading will make them smarter.” Can babies read? 2012-09-12T16:08:00Z We hear Cunningham explain his movement vocabulary in very simple terms. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The Cunningham app, on a different order of magnitude, took about a dozen people, $60,000 and two years to put together. Even in Death a Choreographer Is Mixing Art and Technology 2012-08-10T04:00:20Z Entering his ninth decade, Cunningham still rides his Schwinn around Manhattan, putting miles between his street-level view of personal style and what the titans of fashion will come to discover down the road. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z A new documentary about Cunningham offers a tonic of simplicity and a paean to women after Sheen’s excesses and contempt for women. Op-Ed Columnist: Hunting Birds of Paradise 2011-04-06T19:39:26Z The book, a slim metallic-blue paperback, is one of the only photograph collections that Bill Cunningham ever published, a compendium to a Fashion Institute of Technology show of the “Facades Project,” in 1977. Bill Cunningham’s Favorite Muse 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Cunningham dances are like physical tongue twisters, full of tricky coordinations of the body, long balances on one foot, seemingly impossible transitions from one tilted position to another. Twist, Bend, Reach, Step: A Merce Cunningham Solo Anyone Can Try 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Three band members share lead vocals, each with distinctive style: Mensa as feverish rapper, Cunningham as robust blues shouter, and Stewart with a more sultry jazz-pop approach. Kids These Days rising fast 2011-09-21T05:37:00Z Over the course of a 75-year photographic career, Cunningham captured shape, movement and pattern with an intent honed to an edge, and with a sensuality that flirted into the erotic. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Some Cunningham works will be revived by other companies but without dancers specifically trained to the choreographer’s taxing, technical requirements, it is likely that much will be lost. Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z When she designed costumes for Merce Cunningham’s “Scenario” back in 1997, there was no posturing. Review: City Ballet Dresses Up for Another Fashion Letdown 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z In 2008, Mr. Cunningham was honored by the French culture ministry for his career in fashion photography and was awarded the Legion of Honor. Bill Cunningham, photographer of New York street fashion, dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Still, as Cunningham says in his serenely encouraging way, there is always time again tomorrow. Tacita Dean: Craneway Event 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z Since then, the dancers’ grasp of Cunningham has deepened. Review: French Dancers Show Three Faces of Merce Cunningham 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z And I think that sense of structuring is part of the Cunningham legacy, that choreographers are liberated from the notion of a 'well-made dance.' 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z But it is mostly about the fashion world of the late 1940s through the early ’60s, when Cunningham was a hat designer and party crasher in Manhattan. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z He doesn’t speculate on why Cunningham left his manuscript unpublished. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Not many of us really knew a lot about Bill until the documentary “Bill Cunningham New York” was released in 2010. The Amazing Treasure Trove of Bill Cunningham 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Occasionally, Mr. Cunningham allowed people to celebrate him in one way or another. Bill Cunningham, Legendary Times Fashion Photographer, Dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z And multidirectionality is always a particular ingredient of Cunningham’s many superlative duets. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z As a choreographer, Mr. Petronio likened the experience of watching rehearsals to having a conversation with Cunningham. At Work in Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z A recent critically acclaimed exhibition about the artistry of the choreographer Merce Cunningham highlighted the Walker’s remodeling in seven different galleries plus the theater and cinema. Walker Art Center’s Reckoning With ‘Scaffold’ Isn’t Over Yet 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Apparently shocked into insanity by this benign kidnapping of her son, Liliana Cunningham hangs herself in the local asylum. The Devil Walks by Anne Fine ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:09Z More audacious yet, it also includes dance material from Cunningham’s notes that was never performed in the original. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z There had been no rehearsal, other than Cunningham testing the space so that he wouldn't accidentally kick someone. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Moss and his team wanted to pull Mr. Cunningham’s columns into Styles as marquee features to be called Bill Cunningham’s Evening Hours and Bill Cunningham’s On the Street, Mr. Moss said. Bill Cunningham’s Columns, the Early Days 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z As the work’s original designer, Mark Lancaster, joined the dancers onstage, one of the women asked me in alarm, “Is that Merce Cunningham?” Dance Review: Cunningham and Cage?s ?Roaratorio,? a ?Legacy Tour? Revival 2010-06-07T22:15:00Z The program undoubtedly helped extend Cunningham's artistic life. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z Mr. Parris wrote: “It’s the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s first time in Russia and its performances include the world premiere of the revival of ‘Rainforest.’ ArtsBeat: Drawing Dance: Merce in Moscow 2011-06-20T20:00:10Z Through a mixture of Cunningham's harebrained storytelling and Price's reckless courage, goodness finally prevails. The Book of Mormon – review 2013-03-21T23:00:02Z Byrd, it should be noted, has a curious history with Cunningham. Cunningham Legacy Tour almost skipped Seattle 2011-10-23T18:48:04Z Chance techniques were integral to both Cage and Cunningham’s vocabularies. Music Review: For Composers, Bending the Notes for Cunningham 2011-03-21T21:36:32Z The down time between workshops, which accommodated “South Park” production, nearly lost Mr. Gad as Elder Cunningham, however. Arts & Leisure: The Twisty Road to Uganda and Broadway 2011-05-13T12:35:30Z For Mr. Vaughan, working on the app was a way to stay connected to Cunningham. Even in Death a Choreographer Is Mixing Art and Technology 2012-08-10T04:00:20Z For decades, that kind of noise in a dance program was a signal: You were probably experiencing the radical theater of Merce Cunningham. Review: Taking a Chance on Merce Cunningham 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z On several occasions Cunningham’s presentations suggested the idea of parallel universes; Mr. Atlas’s film of “Ocean,” by alternating between one view and two, allows meanings to grow. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z A large central room houses a stage and, on the day I visit, I catch Daniel Squire, a former member of the company, performing a solo culled from extracts of Cunningham's repertory. Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z And since it’s by Cunningham, it’s hard: His steps are a puzzle of rhythm and form. At Work in Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Firstly, says Cunningham, he tells students in his writing class not to bother if they're going to spend time fretting over what their grandmother/mother/boyfriend will think. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z Since the Cunningham troupe has now begun a two-year farewell world tour, does this revival by a company other than Cunningham’s prepare us for how his choreography will look? Dance Review | Lyon Opera Ballet: Works by Cunningham, Forsythe and Marin at the Joyce Theater 2010-03-11T20:24:00Z Choreographer Merce Cunningham used Ichiyanagi's ensemble piece "Sapporo" as the music for the dance "Story," which had its premiere with Cage conducting at UCLA. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z In an image that Cunningham made unforgettable, his role at one point becomes sandwiched between a man and woman who carry on regardless while he seems to send alarm calls. Dance Review: A Golden Age Continues Without Its Midas 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z This classic slasher directed by Sean S. Cunningham brings us back to Camp Crystal Lake, where the series started 40 years ago. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Soulmates’ and the Vice-Presidential Debate 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Say what you will about this unfair city, the parade here never stops, and no one understood that better than a Bostonian named William J. Cunningham. The Amazing Treasure Trove of Bill Cunningham 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Featuring well-known names like Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold and Merce Cunningham, it also may introduce artists like Marjorie Strider to the public. At Museums, a Mix of Old and New 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z In a conversation with Cage and Cunningham, that makes sense. Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Cunningham claimed until his death that he had not seen it. Bill Cunningham, Legendary Times Fashion Photographer, Dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z More interesting than the bloodshed, somehow, is the middle-class ordinariness with which Mr. Cunningham invests the characters’ conversations; they seem to be inciting the killer’s fury by chatting about vitamins and playing Monopoly. The Times Critics' Guide to the 'Friday the 13th' Movies 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z To illustrate the lasting effects of his influence, the festival is showcasing companies founded by Cunningham alumni. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z It’s known that Cunningham once told Ms. Brown that he felt he must have been a changeling because he was so unlike his family in temperament and pursuits. L.A. Dance Project Takes On Merce Cunningham 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z It does, because Lent has looped “Loops” around the solos of three Juilliard students — Lindsay Phillips, Griffin Massey and Matthew Johnson — who perform their own choreography to the Cage pieces missing Cunningham’s contributions. Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Under the direction of Ryan Cunningham, Morrison’s favored rhythm is one of sustained escalation, his energy rising like the shriek of a teapot until it’s eventually deflected into a non sequitur. ‘Sugar Daddy’ Review: The Grief Comes Out in Laughs 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Opposites attract, and perplex, in “Our Rebellion” from “Revealer,” the new album by Madison Cunningham. Björk Insists on Connection, and 11 More New Songs 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Cunningham took steps to make sure that his company would be disbanded after his death. Paul Taylor Dance Company Comes to Lincoln Center 2012-03-09T18:58:14Z “This is the kind of event that Bill Cunningham would have loved to cover, a pop-up wedding in Midtown Manhattan,” she said. At the Easter Parade, a Wedding Many Outfits in the Making 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z If we were sitting in this yard," Cunningham says, gesturing around his Seattle garden with its view of Lake Washington, "anything that moved, you could see it in his face. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z In the 1950s, he danced for the choreographers Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham. Paul Taylor Opens With Humor Intact, but Poetry Missing 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Although animal and bird imagery can be found in many Cunningham works, very often it’s spliced into some other drama. Dance Review: A Long-Absent Comedy Leaps Out for a Farewell 2011-03-06T20:22:36Z Whether describing life in the early days of the Merce Cunningham company or being part of one of Robert Rauschenberg’s zany performances, Mr. Paxton is an entertaining storyteller — self-effacing and wry. Steve Paxton, a Buddha of American Dance 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Some dances say simultaneously yes and no to Marius Petipa, others hail and farewell to Merce Cunningham, and there’s often a strong suggestion of “This is not Mark Morris.” Dance Review: ?Wanderer Fantasy,? a Puzzle at Danspace Project 2010-05-21T22:54:00Z There followed the first New York performance of “Changeling” since Cunningham danced it over 50 years ago. Review: Merce Cunningham’s Work, on Film, Then in the Flesh 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Cunningham extended dance, radically; he also extended our minds. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe?s Last U.S. Repertory Night - Review 2011-12-11T23:27:57Z But the dancers, led by a deadpan Rashaun Mitchell in Cunningham’s old role, made the choreography’s oddities astonishingly fresh. Dance Review: A Golden Age Continues Without Its Midas 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z This fall, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, with the Merce Cunningham Trust, is reconstructing early Cunningham dances, including “Changeling,” as part of “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957.” Long-Lost Merce Cunningham Work Is Reconstructed in Boston 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Camera aside, part of what made Cunningham such an extraordinary person was the fact that he saw us, just as he saw women and all those “others.” Bill Cunningham Saw Us All 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Their participation here — and with Abraham and other Black dancers in the 2019 Cunningham event “Night of 100 Solos” — is one way that Cunningham’s legacy is posthumously expanding. Review: After Merce, the Dances Go On, and Go On to Inspire 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Wilson recalls that his studies in New York included kinesiology, anatomy, the techniques of Martha Graham and Lester Horton, and the work of Merce Cunningham. In Africa, a Village of Mind, a World of Styles 2010-05-21T22:37:00Z It is Cunningham's project too, the pressure of which he feels, particularly after finishing a novel, when the terrible gap between what he hoped he'd produce and what he wound up with becomes apparent. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z For Bria Bacon, a recent addition to the company who calls Mr. Petronio’s choreography “a perfect blend of release and strength and technique,” mastering a Cunningham solo has been a challenge. At Work in Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z The programs will be available through livestream on the Merce Cunningham Trust’s website and Facebook page, and will remain online three months after the performances. Learning to Dance Merce Cunningham: Risk in Calm Containers 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Many of these are among the most radically inventive of all dance films; he finished editing the “Ocean” film in 2011, two years after Cunningham’s death. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z At the time, Cunningham had a job that included delivering cookies around Orange County for a local business. "Sadness is such a common language": Madison Cunningham on songwriting, sorrow and the Beatles 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Both of Mr. Cunningham’s trademark columns appear to have made their debut on that Sunday in February, some 27 years ago. Bill Cunningham’s Columns, the Early Days 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z In “A Monkey’s Paw,” you’ll also find a family grieving over a son devoured by a factory machine, just as Simon was in the first novella of Mr. Cunningham’s “Specimen Days.” Review: ‘A Wild Swan,’ Michael Cunningham’s Scabrous Antidote to Happily Ever After 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z “Sometimes it’s just a tragedy,” Ms. Cunningham said. Baby Boomers Are Drawn to Green and Eco-Friendly Funerals 2014-03-12T22:33:56Z “She never wore it,” Mr. Cunningham once said. Bill Cunningham, Legendary Times Fashion Photographer, Dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z While neither were members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, I consider both among his artistic offspring. Whitney Biennial Presents Michael Clark and Sarah Michelson 2012-02-24T20:09:49Z “We’re all in the same boat,” Cunningham said at the time when the artists asked him what they should do with the extra money. Inside Art: Bronzino Painting to Be Auctioned at Christie’s 2012-12-20T22:01:38Z Michael Cunningham has a gnawing suspicion that his books are boring. Michael Cunningham Couldn’t Help but Write a Pandemic Novel 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Sitting on the floor with paper cups of red wine, in the shabby West Village apartment of a tall, earnest Frenchman named Michel, who’d crossed the ocean to study with Cunningham. New York City’s Gift of Motion: A 1970s Tale 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The cloudlike fluency of changing formations suggests the influence of Merce Cunningham, but the mixture of soloism and ensemble also evokes George Balanchine’s “Serenade.” Dance Review: Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan at BAM - Review 2011-10-13T22:30:37Z “Dad’s Charts,” the oldest, is from his first program of dances, performed at the Merce Cunningham Studios at Westbeth in 1980. Before the World Shut Down, a ‘Rite of Spring’ on a Senegal Beach 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z No matter what these visions are, Ms. Cunningham said, uncovering them can be therapeutic. Remembrances of Lives Past 2010-08-27T20:58:00Z McDonald’s in Denmark teamed up with Paul Cunningham, a Michelin star awarded chef, for a new burger, Eat This, Not That reports. McDonald's offers burger created by Michelin star rated chef overseas 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z But while such complex, complementary arrangements abound in Cunningham’s piece, they’re actually scarce in Abraham’s. Review: After Merce, the Dances Go On, and Go On to Inspire 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z There’s nothing new about a choreographer making dances to music he or she doesn’t let the audience hear: Merce Cunningham and Twyla Tharp are among those who sometimes did so. Dance Review: ‘Danza Permanente’ at the Kitchen 2012-09-27T22:09:46Z In my own experience, Ms. Brown’s image of “the many ways possible” is a good summation of a Cunningham class. In Cunningham Class, Physical Puzzles and Disciplined Energy 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Bringing abstraction to a performance medium once dominated by narrative was one of Cunningham’s basic goals, and Mr. Atlas honors it. Art in Review: CHARLES ATLAS: ?Joints Array? 2011-08-18T20:43:15Z While it’s true the ghosts of dancers past, including of Cunningham himself, pervade the solos, there are practical issues to think about as well. Learning to Dance Merce Cunningham: Risk in Calm Containers 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Lancaster soon became a fixture as a Cunningham designer into the mid-1980s. Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z That fire also comes across in “Bud Billiken,” a horn-stoked childhood reminiscence by Mensa about growing up with Segal on the South Side, punctuated by an unhinged Cunningham guitar solo. Kids These Days pull songs from the static 2012-11-16T16:04:00Z She is survived by two daughters, Sarah Williams and Jennifer Williams; a son, Merce, named for the choreographer Merce Cunningham, who taught at Black Mountain; her sister, Naomi Rosenblum; and five grandchildren. Vera B. Williams, Who Brought the Working Class to Children’s Books, Dies at 88 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z We see Cunningham concocting a new faith in which Mormonism is merged with bits of Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings. The Book of Mormon – review 2013-03-21T23:00:02Z To naysayers who asked if dancing wasn’t better live than on film or video, Cunningham responded with: “Why not do both?” When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Cunningham, however, keeps spinning subversive variations on this idea. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z “Imogen Cunningham pursued photography with a singular passion,” says Meg Partridge, granddaughter to the famed artist. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Cunningham was chosen for its proximity to the District — 90 minutes — and its family friendly atmosphere. Maryland’s family-friendly Cunningham Falls State Park is perfect for first-time campers 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z “Unavailable Memory: In Conversation with Cunningham & Cage,” which had its debut at the Baryshnikov Arts Center on Thursday, takes that imbalance as an opportunity. Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The ambiguity is essential to Cunningham dance theater. L.A. Dance Project Takes On Merce Cunningham 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Installations by Frances Stark, Imogen Cunningham and Terry Winters are also open through the night. Art and Politics Meet in Boston, Sometimes All Night 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z After five years dominating the ratings, the Bunkers were displaced by another family, a happy family: the Cunninghams. Why Did Los Angeles Become a Cultural Mecca in the Early 1970s? 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Evening Hours | Light and Magical Bill Cunningham’s photographs from events during the week. Fashion Shows 2011-05-11T15:04:06Z In “Tesseract,” filmmaker and director Atlas and former Merce Cunningham dancers Mitchell and Riener collaborate on a two-act multimedia show that combines 3-D film, choreography and video streaming from multiple cameras. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z For many years these were delivered by Cage himself with the Cunningham archivist David Vaughan; after Cage’s death, his part was taken by Cunningham, then in his 80s. Dance Review: Cunningham Work at Summer Stages Dance in Boston 2012-07-27T21:13:23Z It is not so much accompaniment to Cunningham’s choreography as mental environment. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Dance Company in ?Roaratorio? - Review 2011-12-08T23:13:25Z The Cunningham company’s Repertory Understudy Group ended with a season of six performances in the Cunningham studio over the last six days of November. ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham Countdown: Saying Goodbye to the RUGs 2011-12-01T18:44:42Z Cunningham later recanted the wig story entirely and failed a lie-detector test about her original statement to investigators. Moving Alabama Into the Modern Age 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z It is one of countless postelection ironies that, were Mr. Cunningham still with us, he would not be welcome on Bill Cunningham Corner anymore. The Year’s Top Stories From the Fashion World 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The f/64 movement would have a lasting impact on Cunningham’s photographic technique. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Aptly titled “Bill Cunningham New York,” the documentary is something of an inside job, having been produced by Philip Gefter, a former picture editor for the paper, and directed by Mr. Gefter’s husband, Richard Press. Film: The New Directors/New Films Series Begins 2010-03-23T22:03:00Z She and a fellow award winner, the choreographer Merce Cunningham, received the most exuberant applause of the evening. Joan Duddy, Nurtured Dance and Joyce SoHo in Manhattan, Dies at 78 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The dancers are both eager and anxious about performing Cunningham repertory in New York. Robert Swinston, a Merce Cunningham Disciple, Brings His Troupe to New York for a Debut 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z In 1933, Bill Cunningham’s mother came home to their “drab, puritanical” Boston Catholic enclave and caught her son vamping through the house in his sister’s pink organdy full-skirted dress. Bill Cunningham: An Enigma in a Blue Sanitation Worker’s Jacket 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Cunningham did street photography that was published as fashion photography. An Exhibition That Blends the Runway and the Street 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z After rereading the pilot script," he recalled in a 1986 interview, "I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. 'Happy Days' dad Tom Bosley dead at 83 2010-10-19T19:15:00Z Cunningham’s engrossing low-budget ghost story still scares on its own terms. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The highs kept extending our sense both of these dancers, an exceptionally attractive, diverse and skilled group, and of Cunningham himself. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe?s Last U.S. Repertory Night - Review 2011-12-11T23:27:57Z Cunningham lived to observe beautiful women and their clothes. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Aesthetically, though, they are collections of the representational emoting that Cage and Cunningham rejected. Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Members of the Cunningham repertory will also teach a workshop on the choreographer’s technique to dancers in Moscow. ArtsBeat: State Department to Back Merce Cunningham Dance Company Tour of Russia 2011-06-07T03:11:18Z The photo columns were presented with a minuscule credit at the bottom of the layout that read, “Photographs for The New York Times by Bill Cunningham.” Bill Cunningham’s Columns, the Early Days 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z For nearly a decade, Rauschenberg was the resident designer for Merce Cunningham. Inside Art: A Loan Extends Museums’ Global Reach 2014-02-13T21:01:43Z It remains curious that Cunningham so recurrently devoted dance poetry to these nature studies. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z His choice of Cunningham, Mr. Peck and Mr. Naharin shows his brilliantly hybrid taste. L.A. Dance Project Has Vivid Performers and Fine Repertory. There’s Just One Problem. 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z So the miracle of “Bill Cunningham New York,” a new 88-minute documentary about the photographer of “On the Street” and “Evening Hours,” is that its subject agreed to participate in the first place. Capturing the Elusive Bill Cunningham 2010-03-23T18:39:00Z Corbett is, however, his first and most prized reader, with the courage to tell Cunningham when something isn't working. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z For Imogen Cunningham she wore a dark cloak and a necklace of chunky pre-Columbian jade. Frida Kahlo’s Home Is Still Unlocking Secrets, 50 Years Later 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Cunningham watches and guides with transcendent concentration; so does Dean, whose camera positions are never as anticipated. Tacita Dean: Craneway Event 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z Now, do make sure to read The Times’s obituary of Bill Cunningham, the legendary Times photographer who died yesterday at 87. What to Cook This Week 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z And the work’s simultaneous adoption and tweaking of ballet conventions provide these dancers with a bridge to Cunningham style. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet at Gould Hall 2012-03-12T22:23:42Z Rising out of the brick base, the glass section pivots slightly toward the library, to make it seem as if it were “floating,” Cunningham said. 10 buildings you must see around the new boom-time Washington 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z She is smiling with her whole face, looking directly at the camera, directly at Cunningham. Bill Cunningham’s Favorite Muse 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z To paraphrase another fictional female cop, Marge Gunderson from "Fargo," I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Cunningham. Relax, "Prime Suspect" fans, the remake has promise 2011-09-22T22:23:00Z “In the beginning, when he was relatively unknown, he contented himself with vintage raccoon,” Mr. Cunningham wrote. Bill Cunningham’s Columns, the Early Days 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Cunningham is modest and reserved, and street photographer doesn’t fully explain his practice. Art Review: Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’: The Book as Exhibition 2014-03-13T20:25:16Z “Happy Days,” which starred onetime child star Ron Howard as Richie Cunningham, ran for 11 seasons. Garry Marshall, creator of TV’s ‘Happy Days,’ director of ‘Pretty Woman,’ dies 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The program, a production of the Merce Cunningham Trust and the center, begins, sensibly, with the only piece for which Cunningham’s choreography is still known: “Totem Ancestor.” Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Fortunately for posterity, Mr. Cunningham enjoyed what he saw. Capturing the Elusive Bill Cunningham 2010-03-23T18:39:00Z Byrd's disappearance had an interesting sequel when he ran into Cunningham at "some foundation meeting" long afterward. Cunningham Legacy Tour almost skipped Seattle 2011-10-23T18:48:04Z I agree with Claudia that there’s no center to contemporary dance today, and that Cunningham’s influence is stronger. ArtsBeat: A Critics Conversation: Modern Dance Madness 2012-04-03T14:14:19Z One of the more colourful tall tales insisted that Cunningham was in fact the heir to a peerage. The Levellers take it to the next level ? the return of crusty 2011-02-17T23:21:01Z At times slow and repetitive, Cunningham’s pieces aren’t always easy to stick with. Review | ‘Merce Cunningham at 100’: Beautiful but missing a spark 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Was the spelling in it as atrocious as the spelling in Cunningham’s early fashion reporting? Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Alone, a Cunningham dancer investigates movement, space and time with a quality of contemplation that often turns dance into a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy. Critic’s Notebook: Former Merce Cunningham Dancers at Philadelphia Museum 2012-12-23T22:53:57Z Both performed excerpts from “Signals” when they were in the Cunningham company as part of his “Events” — his brilliant and practical way of recycling his work, in which dances were resequenced, generating wholly new programming. At Work in Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z “I thought Michael was a good-looking guy, but I was so distracted by my mother’s situation that when I got to the restaurant, I’m not even sure I shook his hand,” Ms. Cunningham said. From Dating to Marriage, He Had a 5-Prong Plan 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The manuscript being offered for sale was presented to editor Barry Cunningham who signed Rowling and published her magical debut "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and contains a personal dedication from Rowling. Book hand-written and illustrated by J.K. Rowling up for sale 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z "Split Sides" takes Cunningham's reliance on chance to the max. Cunningham company offers a dazzling farewell 2011-10-30T23:02:04Z The Moscow performances are part of the dance company’s so-called legacy tour, a two-year run of performances to celebrate Cunningham’s artistry. ArtsBeat: State Department to Back Merce Cunningham Dance Company Tour of Russia 2011-06-07T03:11:18Z I hope New York has a festival of Cunningham dance films before long. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z He and Cunningham began each morning at Black Mountain with Fuller, discussing ideas and telling stories about themselves. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z “Her real superpower as a writer, I think, is empathy,” said Judith Coyne, the executive editor of More magazine and Ms. Cunningham’s former editor at Glamour. Baby Boomers Are Drawn to Green and Eco-Friendly Funerals 2014-03-12T22:33:56Z The F-word isn’t usually used to describe a dance by Merce Cunningham. At Work in Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z When Cunningham began working with the computer in 1989, at 70, he used it differently — as a creative collaborator, turning to a new, and at that time somewhat clumsy, program called LifeForms. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z On Friday the Aperture Foundation is to introduce its first interactive application for the iPad, “Merce Cunningham: 65 Years.” Even in Death a Choreographer Is Mixing Art and Technology 2012-08-10T04:00:20Z After the deaths of Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham — her company is still active, but his was disbanded after his death — Ms. Umanoff started to seriously consider the future of the Mark Morris organization. Mark Morris’s Legacy Plan? Posthumous Premieres 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Talking through how Cunningham makes his pickled beets — boiled with the stems on, then bathed in a two-to-one “sauce” of sugar and vinegar — would make her conversation with him seem fake. Vivian Howard lives ‘A Chef’s Life,’ her attempt to show the real North Carolina But his sense of dance rhythm — unlike that of Cunningham, who often seems a role model for him — never brings his dancers to serious life. Dance Review: Random Dance Company Presents ‘Atomos,’ a Premiere 2014-03-19T21:47:05Z Works such as these reveal Cunningham’s progressive and contemporary gaze toward deeply human states of being. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Cunningham and Mr. Curtis are very concerned about accessibility. On Artists and Audiences at American Realness 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Further acquaintance showed how Cunningham, in each piece, set himself a fresh choreographic challenge. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Michael Cunningham once described her as having a “fashion sense that could cut glass.” The Extravagant Life of Hector Xtravaganza 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Coordination of different parts — often with the composure of Cunningham rather than ballet — is where some of her wittiest, most beguiling effects occur. Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz Brings a Certain Eccentricity to Dance at Joyce 2014-02-05T22:27:31Z Mr. Cunningham, she recalled, said to her, “Don’t make everything so pretty,” an observation she found revelatory. Valda Setterfield Dies at 88; a Star in the Postmodern Dance Firmament 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z At this point, Cunningham had already made a lasting mark on the world of photography. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The CNDC, as the French company is called, offered a rare look at two Cunningham pieces from the 1990s. Review | ‘Merce Cunningham at 100’: Beautiful but missing a spark 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z It shows the frail but poised Cunningham seated in a chair in a dance rehearsal space, performing static interpretations of Cage's famously silent work. Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011-01-01T00:05:49Z But when I first fell in love with any of Cunningham’s nature studies, over 30 years ago, I had never heard of Zen or Thoreau. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe?s Last U.S. Repertory Night - Review 2011-12-11T23:27:57Z So we cobbled together the Mr. Cunningham speech. Jeff Daniels didn't want dad roles — so he took the ultimate dad role in "To Kill a Mockingbird" 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Cunningham dressed his female friends for costume balls and went along himself, once carrying live chickens gilded in glitter as part of an elaborate get up. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Cunningham may have wanted to make the removal of his presence final, yet with these shows he will be with us more than ever. Merce Cunningham, Looking Beyond the Movement 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z For “Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event,” which celebrated the centenary of Merce Cunningham, Ms. Mearns shared the stage with accomplished contemporary dancers. Sara Mearns, an Explorer Way Beyond Ballet 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z But it was Cage who advocated true democracy, which meant throwing a monkey wrench into such high-minded musical conceit, and Cunningham was the monkey. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr Cunningham, who teaches creative writing at Yale University, is extremely funny and psychologically observant, but he is no believer in happy endings. Duty and the beast 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The three have been friends for more than 50 years, having studied together with Merce Cunningham and with Robert Dunn, a musician who taught composition classes at the Cunningham studio. Steve Paxton, a Buddha of American Dance 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Olk, in Cunningham’s role, held the piece together with his keen concentration on others; an elegant dancer, he has a quietly febrile quality. Review: Merce Cunningham’s ‘Crises’ Opens Dance at the New Whitney 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z In its final week of repertory in America, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, dancing six works in three programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from Wednesday to Saturday, kept hitting high after high. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe?s Last U.S. Repertory Night - Review 2011-12-11T23:27:57Z Cunningham would offer only the title and duration of a piece, he explained, and even these could be subject to change. Avant-Garde Dancing Feet,Tickling Composers? Minds 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z Among the festival’s documentaries, one of the most powerful is Marta Cunningham’s “Valentine Road,” which explores the aftermath of a 2008 classroom shooting. Critic’s Notebook: NewFest of Gay Films Opens at Lincoln Center 2013-09-05T21:36:08Z Cornish is one of a handful of dance schools across the country presenting Cunningham minEvents this year. Cornish College of the Arts presents a Merce Cunningham 'minEvent' 2011-02-01T01:01:29Z What, once the Legacy Tour is over, will Cunningham's legacy be? 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z The collection includes rare video discovered only while the app was being assembled, like a clip of Cunningham dancing with Martha Graham in 1940. Even in Death a Choreographer Is Mixing Art and Technology 2012-08-10T04:00:20Z “Trackers,” she wrote, “through its exuberance and Mr. Cunningham’s forceful role, is a declaration of renewal, especially for creativity.” When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z In the early 1970s, the video artist Charles Atlas began working with the pioneering choreographer Merce Cunningham; an early collaboration was called “A Video Event.” Dance in NYC This Week 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z In interviews Cunningham liked to emphasize pure movement. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe?s Last U.S. Repertory Night - Review 2011-12-11T23:27:57Z Ravenna Woods lead singer Chris Cunningham said his band is the "poster child" for the Indie Roots stage. Northwest Folklife Indie Roots stage moves with the times 2011-05-26T18:03:05Z Chris Cunningham is a very contemporary kind of pop artist, an almost invisible presence whose influence on the mainstream is virally pervasive. Centre stage 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z The whole film keeps reminding you, as Cunningham wanted “Ocean” to show, that there are more views than one, that no single take can ever be definitive. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z The company’s Cunningham MinEvent began life last spring at the Hammer Museum’s edition of the “Leap Before You Look” exhibition about Black Mountain College. L.A. Dance Project Has Vivid Performers and Fine Repertory. There’s Just One Problem. 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Even City Ballet is getting into the spirit of the Merce Cunningham centenary. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Meticulously crafted, they used dancers from the Joffrey Ballet, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, New York City Ballet and other prestigious dance troupes. Henry Gallery showcases Doris Totten Chase beyond famed Kerry Park sculpture 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Yet nothing Cage and Cunningham said supported this. Review: John Cage’s Historical Niche, a Legacy in Letters 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Following publication of that article, I was contacted by an Irish woman named Joanna Cunningham. The tangled tale behind The Devil's Double 2011-08-13T10:00:01Z Most exciting of all is the energy and suppleness he has unleashed in Cunningham’s own role, here danced by Raymond Pinto, a tall Juilliard student now entering his final year. Dance Review: Cunningham Work at Summer Stages Dance in Boston 2012-07-27T21:13:23Z The way that the culture has been changed by George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham — the quicksilver Mercurys of 20th-century dance — cannot be overstated. Balanchine and Cunningham: The Titans of 20th-Century Dance 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z This is the kind of view that Cunningham would have loved; his company’s final home at Westbeth, not far away, afforded similar prospects. Review: Merce Cunningham’s ‘Crises’ Opens Dance at the New Whitney 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z With the best will in the world, Cunningham is not a man you would ever confuse with a male model. The Levellers take it to the next level ? the return of crusty 2011-02-17T23:21:01Z That is important to Tharp, who said she made a point of studying the choreographers who came before her, including Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. Twyla Tharp and Her Body of Perpetual Motion 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Between 1974 and 1983, Mr. Atlas was the official filmmaker for the ever iconoclastic, never normal choreographer Merce Cunningham and shot many of his performances, including some made specifically for the camera. Refracting Race Through the Comic Lens of Richard Pryor 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z This week the Baryshnikov Arts Center has presented a series of performances dedicated to Cage and Cunningham that is in every sense historic. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z The choreography expands on Cunningham by loosening it up. Review: Kyle Abraham Takes on Cunningham and, as Always, Love 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z But ballet steps — pas de chat, cabrioles, grands fouettés sautés and more — abound; so do Cunningham uses of legs and torso. Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz Brings a Certain Eccentricity to Dance at Joyce 2014-02-05T22:27:31Z Considering the wonderful growl of the music, I found it like supercharged Merce Cunningham, with a beat. From Minnesota, the sure, swift footing of ‘Stripe Tease’ 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z Video by Bill Cunningham The Times’s veteran, intrepid “On the Street” fashion photographer will analyze the royal wedding in the context of notable weddings past. The Lede: The Royal Wedding Coverage 2011-04-28T19:15:40Z Photograph: Stephanie Berger Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Nearly Ninety, London Cunningham created this, his final work, just months before his death last summer. This week's new dance 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z Since Cunningham first used it, LifeForms has gone through multiple iterations. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z But Cunningham wasn’t the only ghost in the room. Review: Rebel Yells and Chants of ‘Adieu!’ From Ballet de Lorraine 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Last month, Thrones actor Liam Cunningham told Vulture that Obama gets advance copies of the show, though it wasn’t clear at the time if he was referring to season 6. President Obama is the Only Person in the World to Get Advance Episoides of Game of Thrones 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Today’s Cunningham dancers are still finding fresh accentuations in the material. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z Many of the former Cunningham dancers who staged the works are creating introductory videos, in which they will discuss the that process and teach a short movement phrase from the dance. Make That 101: Cunningham Centennial Moves Online 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z In “Facades,” Mr. Cunningham shows that he is far more than a snapshot photographer. Art Review: Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’: The Book as Exhibition 2014-03-13T20:25:16Z Cunningham would stop snapping what he’d been looking at moments before and turn his considerable attention to one of those colored gentlemen. Bill Cunningham Saw Us All 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Cunningham’s lens was ecumenical; he loved great dressers, and he didn’t discriminate between young and old, wraithlike and Venusian, high and low. The Year in Fashion: Down with the Élites! 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z It’s a perfect sequel to the triumphal treatment Cunningham received in France, where he was given his most ecstatic ovations. Review: French Dancers Show Three Faces of Merce Cunningham 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z When Cunningham performed this, he simply stood still, for each of the three durations, in different spots across the stage. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z Even in these tough economic times, only 10 people applied for the job, according to Robert Cunningham, president of the Museum Society. Trenton City Museum Faces Uncertain Future 2012-07-10T22:23:33Z With his usual groomer unavailable for an appointment, Cunningham contacted another professional and asked for a “teddy cut” for her sweet pup. Dog owner left laughing after groomer gave pup 'pantless' haircut 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z These two, like their fellow dancer Melissa Toogood, first hit us when at full stretch with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. ‘Horizon Events,’ Inspired by the Parameters of a PS1 Gallery 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z All the encounters and passings, greetings and pairings that take place in Cunningham's dance are as much like those of life as they are a performance on a stage. The Bride and the Bachelors: delighting in Duchamp 2013-02-15T15:32:55Z Cunningham often seems to be taking on the same subject in “Crises”; he even occasionally links dancers with elastic bands. Review: Merce Cunningham’s ‘Crises’ Opens Dance at the New Whitney 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z “Pond Way,” the last of Cunningham’s many idylls, is in the Transcendentalist tradition of Emerson and Thoreau. Dance Review: A Long-Absent Comedy Leaps Out for a Farewell 2011-03-06T20:22:36Z The jury is still out on Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Riener as choreographers, but the two, a duo since their days with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, are among the great dancers of our day. Dance This Week: Tap History, the Bill at the Joyce and an Award 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z So why on earth didn’t Cunningham just jettison his musical colleagues and opt for popularity? Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z But Cunningham’s indulgence in technology never dulls the humanity of her music. Perspective | 21 for ’21: Composers and performers who sound like tomorrow 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Here, too, are rare glimpses into his long and fruitful partnership with Cunningham. Review: John Cage’s Historical Niche, a Legacy in Letters 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z “I became a student again,” said Mr. Arsham, who watched rehearsals and went to see the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Joyce Theater several times in an effort to master a new medium. Daniel Arsham on Designing Sets for Merce Cunningham 2011-12-28T23:20:52Z It was a typical encounter with the Merce Cunningham technique, which routinely confronts its practitioners with riddles, contradictions and near-impossible tasks. In Cunningham Class, Physical Puzzles and Disciplined Energy 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z But Mr. Petronio is also among the many choreographers whose minds turned to questions of legacy after the death of Merce Cunningham in 2009, and especially after the Cunningham company disbanded two years later. Petronio Company to Perform Other Choreographers’ Works 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z As the moment hung in fatal balance, Mr. Cunningham finally stoops to answer her and then calls the men off. Critic's Notebook: Baltimore's heroic mom reminds us there's no 'them' 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The radical choreographer Merce Cunningham was a subtracting god too, excising emotionalism and deleting the “front and center” orientation that governed all previous stage work. Balanchine and Cunningham: The Titans of 20th-Century Dance 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Instead of the more movement-friendly second or fourth position, Cunningham had performers begin from a more clenched fifth position. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The Cunningham solo with the chair and the duet that follows are perfect exercises along lines set out by Marcel Duchamp: divorcing ordinary objects from their utilitarian associations. Dance Review: A Long-Absent Comedy Leaps Out for a Farewell 2011-03-06T20:22:36Z Yellin called hardware “the salt and pepper of architecture,” said the foundation’s curatorial director, Dr. Joseph Cunningham. How Franklin Thwarted Counterfeiters 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Woolf began writing a “big book about London after World War I,” said Michael Cunningham, whose Pulitzer-winning novel “The Hours” was based on Woolf’s. A Glimpse of Virginia Woolf’s Original Manuscript for ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Cage thought it high time that he and dancer-choreographer Merce Cunningham drove across country to see how the West Coast, where they were both from, reacted to their radical ideas about music and dance. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Cunningham was much more interested in manipulating bodies, and his dancers moved with a stronger sense of propulsion and intention. Jonah Bokaer’s 3,000 ping-pong balls take stage at American Dance Institute 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Run by Ross Stevenson and Leroy Cunningham, a couple who moved to the area from Seattle, the restaurant has enjoyed an unlikely decade-long embrace from a mostly conservative local clientele. Reinvention in Walla Walla’s Wine Country 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Now, three years after his death in 2009, Cunningham is again at the vanguard. Even in Death a Choreographer Is Mixing Art and Technology 2012-08-10T04:00:20Z Then he turns to Cunningham and says “That doesn’t mean you don’t have excellent taste.” ArtsBeat Blog: The Cunningham Countdown: An Exhibition At the Walker Arts Center 2011-11-23T19:27:06Z The picture was taken by Bill Cunningham, then 59. Bill Cunningham’s Columns, the Early Days 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Three strikingly different facets of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company were on display on Thursday night, as the troupe gave the first of two final performances in Seattle. Cunningham dances hit antic, moody, transcendent notes 2011-10-28T17:18:04Z Mr. Cunningham said he remembered that security was the major issue for the Brooklyn Museum. Trenton City Museum Faces Uncertain Future 2012-07-10T22:23:33Z Here, as in all Alston’s work, the dancers, trained in ballet and Merce Cunningham technique, move with clarity and freedom, responsive but not slavishly tied to the music. In England, Closing a Chapter of Modern Dance 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z In 1979, the critic David Vaughan wrote that Ashton, Balanchine and Merce Cunningham were “the ABC of contemporary classicism” — a credo to which I have adhered ever since. American Ballet Theater’s Shakespeare Program 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The store drew praise from the Times, where a critic in 1958 noted that Mr. Cunningham had “cornered the face-framing market with some of the most extraordinarily pretty cocktail hats ever imagined.” Bill Cunningham, photographer of New York street fashion, dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Let’s say that when the Merce Cunningham Dance Company shuts down after Dec. 31, his choreography will very seldom be seen again. Dance Review: Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on: A Tribute to Cunningham 2011-07-17T21:58:41Z Very soon thereafter, New York City announced it would rename one of his favorite perches Bill Cunningham Corner. The Year’s Top Stories From the Fashion World 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Cunningham once worked for four years on a short film that he then abandoned without showing anyone. Centre stage 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z In its footwork, its tilting of torsos and rotating balances on one leg, the style resembles that of Merce Cunningham. Dance Review: ‘The Spectators’ at New York Live Arts 2013-05-16T20:28:13Z The revolutionary art of Merce Cunningham, the great modern-dance choreographer, looks as singular and even futuristic now, in his centennial year, as it must have 50 and 60 years ago. Review | ‘Merce Cunningham at 100’: Beautiful but missing a spark 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z “With Merce” is a different creature, full of funny little moments, some caught by Mr. Atlas and others by Cunningham himself. The Week Ahead: Oct. 3 ? 9 2010-10-01T14:39:00Z But Bill Cunningham, who began it all, was never among them. Bill Cunningham Looked Past the Runway and Embraced the Street 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z “It is this trust in our vision for advancing the next generation of rigorous artistic rule-breakers and innovators, in the names of Cunningham and Cage, that truly humbles me.” Money From Merce Cunningham Trust Goes to Two Arts Groups 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The cast for these performances consisted of dancers who have steeped themselves in Cunningham technique and repertory in recent years at City Center; they’ve been seen in a number of reconstructions there. Review: Merce Cunningham’s ‘Crises’ Opens Dance at the New Whitney 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z In the dance field, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company is giving its final performances ever at the end of the month at the armory. The Park Avenue Armory, Indisputably Big 2011-12-21T21:04:21Z Sometimes the dancers wanted to know why they were doing what they were doing, but Cunningham didn’t tell them. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z I confine my own survey to just a quick sampling of works by two choreographers dear to my heart, Ashton and Cunningham. Sets Featuring Fonteyn, the Cunningham Company and Others 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z From the 1970s until his death in 2016, the Times photographer Cunningham pioneered the use of street photography as a journalistic record of fashion and style the way they turn up in everyday life. New & Noteworthy, From Flannery O’Connor to Cigarettes 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z As their Easter Sundays became synonymous with celebration and photos by Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Aguiar and Mr. Haldeman decided to marry this year on their favorite holiday. At the Easter Parade, a Wedding Many Outfits in the Making 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z To some minds, one Cunningham dance is much like another. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Following their appearances in San Francisco, the Cunningham dancer Marianne Preger wrote to her parents, “And do you know, Margot Fonteyn did ‘Swan Lake’ the same night and we got all the critics!” L.A. Dance Project Takes On Merce Cunningham 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z A former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Mr. Crossman has been exploring his own choreographic voice since that troupe disbanded in 2012. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z "A lot of people went to Berlin, Rimini, Malaga, France," Cunningham says. The Levellers take it to the next level ? the return of crusty 2011-02-17T23:21:01Z The dancers are the final group trained by Cunningham; they include understudies to whom he gave special attention. Dance Review: Cunningham Company Dances 'Nearly 902' in Montreal 2010-05-31T22:24:00Z Calvin Tomkins examines the revolutionary work of the choreographer Merce Cunningham, and, in “The Absolute Frontier,” Angelica Gibbs chronicles the extraordinary life and career of the modern-dance choreographer Martha Graham. Sunday Reading: The World of Dance 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Cunningham is large and imposing, with a booming laugh and an almost cowboyish ruggedness. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z Their mixed bill at the 92nd Street Y includes Stephen Mills’s “Hush” and Antony Tudor’s “Little Improvisations,” alongside excerpts from the pyrotechnic “Le Corsaire” and Merce Cunningham’s more subdued “Duets.” Dance Listings for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Physically unimposing and almost comically frugal, Mr. Cunningham was as much a character as anyone he photographed. Bill Cunningham, photographer of New York street fashion, dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Out on the trails again Mr. Cunningham introduced us to yet another poling technique, this one for climbing, called “offset.” ‘One Problem With Skate Skiing: It’s Hard’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z After the Hombres' career slowed, Cunningham went to work behind the scenes at the famed Sounds of Memphis Studios. Member of Jerry Lee Lewis band killed in shootout 2012-10-15T00:21:11Z “I have done several thousand individual past-life regressions,” said Ms. Cunningham, of the International Board for Regression Therapy. Remembrances of Lives Past 2010-08-27T20:58:00Z The Cunningham of that era often seemed to be conducting a private dialogue with the two choreographers who influenced him most, and from whose idioms he departed most strongly: Martha Graham and George Balanchine. Review: Compagnie CNDC-Angers Dances Cunningham 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z At the Times, which he joined full-time in 1993, Mr. Cunningham had two weekly photographic columns. Bill Cunningham, photographer of New York street fashion, dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z A Times article in March reported that this book was found by Cunningham’s family after his death, but Als doesn’t repeat this information. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The Cage musician is not performing, whereas Cunningham dancers are: stillness takes energy too. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z As part of its “Legends and Visionaries” program, the troupe will present dances by Agnes de Mille, Ms. Tanowitz and Cunningham. New York Theater Ballet Announces Season 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z This corresponds to some of the Cunningham company’s Event performances in which audiences had to move about to see all the dancing on two or more different stages. Merce Cunningham Exhibitions in Minneapolis and Chicago 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z It’s more than welcome: It adds to our knowledge of Cunningham’s mastery. Review: French Dancers Show Three Faces of Merce Cunningham 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Saturday night’s piece was about Cédric Andrieux, a French dancer who performed with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for eight years before joining the Lyon Opera Ballet. Dance Review: Snapshots of One Dancer?s Life Give a Glimpse Into an Art Form 2010-09-19T22:09:00Z From his wheelchair Cunningham instructs members of his dance troupe in a cavernous rehearsal hall, and, at one point, falls asleep in the crepuscular light while they perform his choreography. Art Review: Altfest, Barlow, Dean, Djurberg and Liden at New Museum 2012-06-07T22:17:35Z In a 2002 essay, Mr. Cunningham said: “I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That’s all there is to it.” What’s on TV Monday 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z An elderly person looking back on life is a reliable frame in fiction, and Sam Cunningham, the narrator of Robert Olen Butler’s “Late City,” has an awful lot of life for material. A 115-Year-Old War Veteran Looks Back at It All, With God as a Guide 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z This time around he offered a trio of modern heavyweights: Robbins, Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor. Dance Review | Juilliard Dance: Juilliard Dances Repertory: Robbins, Cunningham, Taylor 2010-03-29T05:02:00Z One of its 19 performers was in a wheelchair, two were children, and several were at least middle-aged; the most skilled performers included Cédric Andrieux, who danced in the Merce Cunningham company earlier this century. A Rousing End Lifts a Program of Jérôme Bel Dances in Paris 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “Cunningham” registers the resistance that its subject encountered: the puzzlement, the thrown fruit. ‘Cunningham’ Review: Exploring Space, Time and Dance in 3-D 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z But appearance vs. use is a “false choice,” says Caroline Cunningham, president of the Trust for the National Mall. If the Mall is America’s front lawn, how careful should we be on the grass? Even better would be to add more Cunningham dances to the mix. Review: At City Ballet, Giving Voice to the Body, With Sneakers 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z In 2009, the Brooklyn Academy brought its long association with the choreographer Merce Cunningham to a climax on his 90th birthday, giving the 90-minute world premiere of his “Nearly Ninety.” A Cutting-Edge Impresario Leaves BAM: What Was His Best Work? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Cunningham, more than any other dance-maker, created works that operated on multiple levels. L.A. Dance Project Takes On Merce Cunningham 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z “Oh, young fellah,” he replied, sounding like Jimmy Stewart playing Bill Cunningham, “fashion is a mirror, reflecting the culture. The culture is chaotic, so fashion is just doing its job.” Bill Cunningham: An Enigma in a Blue Sanitation Worker’s Jacket 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The Merce Cunningham Dance Company is ending its 58-year career this week by looking forward as well as back: time present contains time past and time to come. Dance Review: Cunningham Dance Company Offers Finality and Contentment 2011-12-30T14:27:41Z Ms. Russell's book contained "narrative miscalculations" common to first novels, Mr. Cunningham says: "However, it seemed very much like the initial appearance of an important writer, and its wonders were wonderful indeed." ArtsBeat: Michael Cunningham Writes About Non-Pulitzer in Fiction 2012-07-10T20:45:12Z The group included such midcentury American legends such as Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Edward Weston, whose selected works feature alongside those of Cunningham. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z “Habitats” is even more imitative of Cunningham in its vocabulary than “For Once,” and its lack of clarity and intention is consequently more striking. Dance Review: Movements in the Cunningham Mode 2011-04-29T21:20:53Z Cunningham on a silent, empty stage would still be more full of beauty and incident than most. This week's new dance 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z Alston style, usually barefoot, is hybrid, deriving both from Cunningham modern dance and ballet. How This London Troupe Takes You to the Heart of Dance 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z One of the more vulnerable photographs of Cunningham is a self-portrait, taken in a sliver of storefront mirror on a San Francisco street. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z That was Harris’s first journey into Cunningham’s convoluted movement, but you wouldn’t have known it, Lent said: “She inhabited the work like it was just waiting for her.” An Ailey Dancer’s Career Blooms, at the Company and Beyond 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Cunningham choreography will be danced by international touring companies, including France’s Ballet de Lorraine, and, in short-form in-gallery Cunningham Events, a small ensemble of former Cunningham dancers. Merce Cunningham Exhibitions in Minneapolis and Chicago 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z For decades Mr. Cunningham photographed New York’s social, philanthropic and fashion whirl for the Times. Bill Cunningham, photographer of New York street fashion, dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z It's the second child for "The Grand Budapest Hotel" actor and his wife, Brady Cunningham, whom he wed in July 2009. Actor Jason Schwartzman, wife have a second baby girl 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z These live performances, or “Sonic Gatherings,” are loosely inspired by Cunningham’s “Events” — one-time, site-specific dances made up of a patchwork of choreographic material. Dancing in the Streets of Harlem, and Gathering to Dance, Merce-Style 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Bosley is probably best known for his decade, beginning in 1974, as Howard Cunningham, the gruff but reliably kind father of teenage children in 1950s Milwaukee in the nostalgic situation comedy “Happy Days.” Tom Bosley, ?Happy Days? Dad, Dies at 83 2010-10-20T01:32:00Z “It’s going to be really bad,” said Kathleen Cunningham, the chairwoman for the Quiet Skies Coalition, a neighborhood group opposed to airport noise. The Talk of the Hamptons This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z When Ms. Cunningham’s father died in Orangeburg, S.C., five years ago, she and her two siblings arranged what she called “the most glorious memorial service,” culminating with a jubilant farewell from a jazz band. Baby Boomers Are Drawn to Green and Eco-Friendly Funerals 2014-03-12T22:33:56Z Four years later, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Cage read texts he had prepared from “Finnegans Wake,” and Cunningham was one of the dancers at the final performance of “Roaratorio” during their lifetimes. Dance Review: Cunningham and Cage?s ?Roaratorio,? a ?Legacy Tour? Revival 2010-06-07T22:15:00Z “Michael became a gift of comfort,” Ms. Cunningham said. From Dating to Marriage, He Had a 5-Prong Plan 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Those personal possessions, along with Mr. Cunningham’s library and ephemera, are now part of the permanent collection at the New-York Historical Society and will be displayed there this spring. Bill Cunningham’s Trademark Bicycle and Jacket Join the New-York Historical Society 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z There is also the issue of the commercialization of children, Cunningham said. Lawmaker’s resignation raises questions of ‘pro-life approach’ to IVF, surrogacy 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Like Rossellini’s saint, Mr. Cunningham has retained his faith in a world that has lost the same. Film: The New Directors/New Films Series Begins 2010-03-23T22:03:00Z Dance legend Merce Cunningham, whom Tschernisch met in the 1960s, had come to Cornish to be honored as an alumnus. Sergei Tschernisch: In 17 years at Cornish's helm, mission accomplished 2011-05-14T04:33:09Z Even in Death a Choreographer Is Mixing Art and Technology Throughout his life Merce Cunningham came up with new ways to blend art and technology. Even in Death a Choreographer Is Mixing Art and Technology 2012-08-10T04:00:20Z Cunningham had seen Warhol’s installation “Silver Clouds” at the Leo Castelli Gallery and recognized the theatrical potential of Warhol’s helium-filled silver pillows, which became the décor for Cunningham’s “RainForest.” Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z William was outstandingly precise and waspish as Vaughan Cunningham, a pacifist literary gadfly with a nasal intonation and a fund of semi-louche aphorisms. David William obituary 2010-08-23T17:41:00Z Still, in the last few years of Cunningham's life, when his health was in decline, his nephew made a point of calling him every few weekends to see how he was doing. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z Here’s an exclusive clip from “Bill Cunningham New York,” which begins a two-week run today at Film Forum. | 'Bill Cunningham New York' 2011-03-16T19:01:09Z In "Ocean," Mr. Atlas uses a split screen and other techniques to convey the qualities of Mr. Cunningham's work. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z To celebrate the centennial of the choreographer Merce Cunningham, the Baryshnikov Arts Center will support five artists this year rather than one as Cage-Cunningham fellows. Baryshnikov Arts Center Announces 5 New Fellows 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z For the Royal Ballet, Ms. Tanowitz was asked to choreograph a work for centennial of Merce Cunningham’s birth. Review: In Merce Cunningham’s Honor, Pam Tanowitz Thrills 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Cunningham, a proponent of using chance operations in his choreographic process, paved the way for explorations of nonrepresentational dance. Graham, Taylor, Cunningham: Three Titans. One Stage. One Night. 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z As Anna Wintour put it in the documentary about Mr. Cunningham, “I’ve said many times, we all get dressed for Bill.” Bill Cunningham, Legendary Times Fashion Photographer, Dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z When Cunningham died in 2009, plans were initiated for a final, farewell tour by his company. Merce Cunningham Dance Company to visit Seattle on final Legacy Tour 2010-12-15T21:01:05Z I struggled with it until Mr. Cunningham skied up the hill next to me. ‘One Problem With Skate Skiing: It’s Hard’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z And yet, this is what Patricia Lent, the director of licensing at the Cunningham Trust, is proposing. Twist, Bend, Reach, Step: A Merce Cunningham Solo Anyone Can Try 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z The point then seemed to be his age; but now, as with several Cunningham roles that were danced by younger men in his lifetime, this character seems isolated by temperament. Dance Review: Jungle Gymnasts on a Farewell Tour 2011-07-11T22:45:25Z Vinson Cunningham on how Morrison taught us to read: Kara Walker’s Toni Morrison 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z But each seemed to fluctuate between being another instance of that uniquely thrilling occasion, a Cunningham Event, and a version in which people tried very hard to accomplish that uniquely difficult feat. Review: 100 (or So) Adventures in Attention, Merce Cunningham-Style 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Every so often a cogent solo would demonstrate the skill of dancers previously attached to such major contemporary ensembles as the Merce Cunningham and Tere O’Connor companies. A 'Performance' that sometimes captivates, often disappoints 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z One bishop, Robert Cunningham, even suggested during a deposition that the victims might have been encouraging the priests to go along with it, continuing the idea that the victims might be to blame. Looking the other way: The accepted sexual abuse of young boys by institutional powers 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z And Mr. Gilbert will lead the orchestra in American music in Cunningham Park in Queens and Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. New York Philharmonic to Celebrate 50 Years of Concerts in the Parks 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z I can't imagine dance the way we see it now existing if Cunningham had not lived. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z Most of the events included a section from “Walkaround Time,” the work in which Cunningham and Mr. Johns addressed ideas from Duchamp. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z Valuably, it employs eight dancers from Cunningham’s company, which closed at the end of 2011. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z Mr. Wolff, a Cage protégé in his teens, began his relationship with Cunningham with “For Magnetic Tape,” the box set’s brief opening work. Avant-Garde Dancing Feet,Tickling Composers? Minds 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z A publicist for Lil Wayne, Sarah Cunningham, said that the split was due to "creative differences" and that it was an amicable parting. PepsiCo ending ties with Lil Wayne 2013-05-03T21:37:08Z Partridge, who has the same distinct, aquiline profile as her grandmother, speaks from a studio at the Imogen Cunningham Trust, which houses an extensive collection of Cunningham’s original negatives and prints. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Johns’s one-sentence reply might well apply not only to Cunningham’s work but also to his own: “I did not think of reinvention but of the unfolding and exercise of an inner language.” Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z His next Cunningham piece will be “Tread,” another work from 1970 known for its humor. At Work in Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Vaughan was the Cunningham company’s longtime archivist; Mr. Fajans eventually became Cunningham’s caretaker for 10 months until his death in 2009 and then, during the company’s final tour, looked after Mr. Vaughan. Review: A Cross-Generational Bond, Conveyed in Dance 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z “We’ve created a sound, but we don’t have a genre,” said Mr. Cunningham, also 18. Chicago News Cooperative: Kids These Days: A Group With a Sound if Not a Genre 2011-07-31T02:45:26Z If you believe you have a legitimate reason to use the Green Room, contact Geoff Cunningham. Best of the London Festival of Architecture 2010-06-16T11:56:00Z In the lead role, Paul Cunningham exists in a world of fragmented memory. In an Alien Landscape – review 2013-02-04T18:37:11Z Cunningham made a number of works known as “nature studies” over the years, but “Ocean” does not easily fit into that category. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z If you hear it, it becomes the ideally atmospheric accompaniment for Cunningham’s nature study, with plops and glugs like marshland noises. Review: French Dancers Show Three Faces of Merce Cunningham 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z "The basic issue is that when people are under stress, they are not as efficient cognitively, their judgment isn't as good," Cunningham said. "If it makes people feel better, I don't see the harm," said one vendor of essential oils 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Cunningham’s deft construction, with its precious pseudo-Woolf prose, discreetly highlights the threads of connection — flashes of the color yellow, degrees of same-sex desire — weaving the stories together. Review: In ‘The Hours,’ Prima Donnas and Emotions Soar 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z A few of the pictures from Cunningham’s collection of Cornish College works appear in the SAM retrospective. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Toward the 1920s, Cunningham and Partridge would establish themselves in San Francisco, a city that eventually became Cunningham’s lifelong home. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z In sentences frequently as smart and elegant as Michael Cunningham’s, McInerney captures the city in those supernova years before the Great Recession. Jay McInerney’s ‘Bright, Precious Days’: Social satire or consumer porn? 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Taylor said that his decision to restructure his company and plan for the future had been influenced by his dismay at the disbanding of Cunningham’s company. Legacy in Mind, Taylor Plans a Center for Modern Dance 2014-02-09T22:17:49Z They found success soon — she danced for a time with Merce Cunningham and he was in the original production of “Tick, Tick . . . Boom.” Former pastor Charlie Pollock returns to the stage in Signature Theatre’s ‘Elmer Gantry’ There she befriended the choreographer Merce Cunningham and studied painting with Albers, whose theories on color were immensely influential. Ruth Asawa, an Artist Who Wove Wire, Dies at 87 2013-08-17T23:07:13Z In 2002 Cunningham was delighted that his company was appearing in Dublin at the Abbey Theater, once home to Yeats. Dance Review: Cunningham and Cage?s ?Roaratorio,? a ?Legacy Tour? Revival 2010-06-07T22:15:00Z More than 60 presenting organizations and dance companies from around the world are expected to participate, and the Royal Ballet in London will be one of several to tackle Cunningham for the first time. Merce Cunningham’s Centennial Will Bring a Global Celebration 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z “Changeling” was Cunningham’s third solo involving chance; it had its premiere in 1957 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and was last seen in Tokyo in 1964. Long-Lost Merce Cunningham Work Is Reconstructed in Boston 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Now, over the next few months, more than a dozen of those performances will be viewable online, the Cunningham Trust announced today. Make That 101: Cunningham Centennial Moves Online 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z But Cunningham – who the Mirror reports contentedly smoked and spoke about drinking Smirnoff during the interview – may have a harder time obtaining that abortion. Getting an abortion as a career move 2014-04-21T18:49:00Z The music is now accompanied by the 1993 choreography of “Doubletoss,” the first completely new work that Cunningham made after Cage’s death. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z The dance critic David Vaughan wrote in the 1970s that “Ashton, Balanchine, Cunningham are the ABC of contemporary classicism.” Critic?s Notebook: Line in Dance? Let?s Go Back to the Drawing Board 2011-01-31T23:58:51Z There was a group of stylish people who would gather on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, at what is now known as Bill Cunningham Corner. Bill Cunningham, Unpublished Photos 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z And any Cunningham devotee will recall urban studies like his “CRWDSPCR,” in which the movement of one human being is circumscribed by that of others. The Art of Summer: Art of Summer: Grand Central?s Fluid Human Dance 2011-08-31T12:02:00Z "The exposure that the mall's condition is going to receive as a result of his leadership and his viewership is tremendous," the nonprofit group's president, Caroline Cunningham, said Tuesday. Stewart asks donors to help restore National Mall 2010-10-05T20:18:00Z The fellowships, $6,000 each, represent the latest effort to keep the Cunningham flame alive after his death in 2009 and the company’s dissolution last year. ArtsBeat: Former Merce Cunningham Dancers to Teach Choreographer's Works 2012-03-20T19:48:39Z Now Cunningham is tired of videos and adverts. Centre stage 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z When Cunningham dancers allow themselves to smile, it’s quietly done; but Ballet Theater’s dancers project their facial expressions in a big way, so that sections become, wrongly, an exercise in charm. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at City Center - Review 2011-11-10T23:06:42Z On Wednesday, Feb. 8, “Merce Cunningham: Common Time” will debut at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; a second leg of the show opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago on Saturday. Merce Cunningham, Looking Beyond the Movement 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z “More interesting than the bloodshed, somehow, is the middle-class ordinariness with which Mr. Cunningham invests the characters’ conversations,” Janet Maslin wrote in her New York Times review. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Soulmates’ and the Vice-Presidential Debate 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z “Cunningham” is not a traditional documentary, in that it suggests more than it explains. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z In New York, generations of Cunningham dancers come out to support the company and greet them after the performances. ArtsBeat: Drawing Dance: The Cunningham Company at Lincoln Center 2011-07-25T19:30:37Z He will also work with Kevin Cunningham, the company’s executive artistic director, on new productions and on projects meant to expand 3-Legged Dog’s international profile. ArtsBeat: Michael Counts to Join 3-Legged Dog Theater Company 2014-01-02T17:10:36Z Many of Cunningham’s dances are forms of barefoot classicism, rigorous in their devotion to line, rhythm, pattern. Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z But when combined with the brilliant works of Merce Cunningham, the revolutionary choreographer who died in 2009, sonic abstractions come to life. Music Review: For Composers, Bending the Notes for Cunningham 2011-03-21T21:36:32Z Cunningham has already courted controversy in the UK after she managed to snag a £4,800 breast enlargement courtesy of NHS funds. Getting an abortion as a career move 2014-04-21T18:49:00Z The composer, writer, mushroom-hunter, unconventional artist and collaborator with Merce Cunningham and Jasper Johns is undergoing a major revival. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z Graham’s expressive modern dance wasn’t to Ms. Childs’s taste — she was really there to study with the avant-garde choreographer Merce Cunningham — but what dancer would turn down such an experience? Lucinda Childs Gets Off the Floor in New Work for the Graham Company 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Andrea Weber, the official stager from the Merce Cunningham Trust, is exacting in making sure everything looks just so. ‘If the Dancer Dances’ Review: An Inheritance in Motion 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z For over 50 years, Cunningham kept developing the potential of this study of zoology. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z When he began working, centering himself on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, Mr. Cunningham was virtually alone in his quest. Art Review: Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’: The Book as Exhibition 2014-03-13T20:25:16Z “Four Walls” was only performed once, in 1944, making this reimagined version something of a fantasy dance: What were Cage and Cunningham all about in the earliest days of their collaboration? Review: Rebel Yells and Chants of ‘Adieu!’ From Ballet de Lorraine 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Cunningham also resisted the trends of celebrity dressing. Bill Cunningham, Legendary Times Fashion Photographer, Dies at 87 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z As she notes, in most Cunningham duets “two individuals are very closely tied but remain separate.” Review: After Merce, the Dances Go On, and Go On to Inspire 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Add to that potent list Merce Cunningham, with his iconoclastic style and revolutionary notions. Avant-Garde Dancing Feet,Tickling Composers? Minds 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z The constant thread throughout is the marvelous Ms. Cunningham, who, in one moment, arches her back with such slow delicacy that she appears to be made of feather and steel. Dance Review: Michael Clark?s ?Who?s Zoo?? at Whitney Biennial 2012 2012-04-01T21:00:01Z The structural frame of the conservatory was made of steel," Cunningham writes, "although the graceful roof arches originally were built with Southern swamp cypress. The story of the Volunteer Park Conservatory, turning 100 this year 2012-08-08T23:27:05Z It also demonstrates how exploratory Cunningham’s mind still was at the end of his life. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe?s Last U.S. Repertory Night - Review 2011-12-11T23:27:57Z Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham and O’Keeffe were just a few fans. A Pioneering Photographer, Bare in the Back Country 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z And like Cunningham, Dean is fascinated by the structure of motion and time; her film is, in a sense, open-ended. Tacita Dean: Craneway Event 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z Chris Cunningham is almost 40 but he looks uncannily like a teenager. Centre stage 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z On the Grid, Mr. Cunningham had us get the feel of shifting our weight by putting aside our poles and skiing up and down the field swinging arms over the opposite ski tip. ‘One Problem With Skate Skiing: It’s Hard’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Spend time in the snuggeries of Mr. Cunningham’s lonely worlds — in Bushwick, in the West Village, in a cottage somewhere — and you’re sure to feel less alone. Review: ‘A Wild Swan,’ Michael Cunningham’s Scabrous Antidote to Happily Ever After 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z There is an obvious link between Cunningham’s style and that of Ms. Tanowitz, who deploys similar limpidity, balletic lines, shifts of weight and direction, complex footwork and non sequitur sequences of steps. Review: In Merce Cunningham’s Honor, Pam Tanowitz Thrills 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Cunningham describes his spelling as atrocious, and that may be true, but he brings skepticism, honesty and passion to his work. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z As the late Marion Cunningham put it, "Baked ham is an ideal main dish for beginning cooks and the best answer for the harried cook." How to cook a ham like a champ, from oven temperature to glazing technique 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Since Cunningham revivals largely depend on dancers’ understanding of his style, the disbanding of the company seemed like a farewell to Cunningham dance theater. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Cunningham’s character might as well be the big-game hunter from “Jurassic Park” or Quint from “Jaws,” waxing on about how viruses are smarter than we are, how they’re “the perfect killer.” Review: ‘The Hot Zone’ Stays Tepid 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Cunningham’s role is played by Robert Swinston, now the director of the Cunningham company’s choreography. Dance Review: Cunningham and Cage?s ?Roaratorio,? a ?Legacy Tour? Revival 2010-06-07T22:15:00Z There were other composers – Edgard Varèse and Darius Milhaud – who were doing similar things, but he was more prolific and worked with interesting people from other disciplines, like the choreographer Merce Cunningham. John Cage: musicians and artists on a legend 2012-08-15T17:51:03Z In the performing arts of our time, there has been no better exemplification of this principle than the dance theater of Merce Cunningham. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Dance Company in ?Roaratorio? - Review 2011-12-08T23:13:25Z The singers we brought in, Liam and Sima Cunningham, also from Tweedy, were terrific. “What’s my purpose on Earth if I’m not playing solos?”: Guitar hero Richard Thompson says every song absolutely, without question, needs one 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z He doesn’t say if this book was edited, or if Cunningham left other writing behind. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z In training dancers less versed in the technique, Mr. Swinston, who served as Cunningham’s assistant beginning in 1992, needed to use vocabulary from Cunningham’s earlier periods. Robert Swinston, a Merce Cunningham Disciple, Brings His Troupe to New York for a Debut 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Reviewers were full of praise for stars Gavin Creel and Jared Gertner as the young missionaries Elder Price and Elder Cunningham. Broadway hit 'The Book of Mormon' lands in London 2013-03-22T16:16:05Z The early reader’s steady ascent can explode into a towering geyser of literacy because, Cunningham explains, reading is largely self-taught and begets its own mastery. Can babies read? 2012-09-12T16:08:00Z Cunningham spent her childhood in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood, to which her family relocated from Portland, her place of birth. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Invaluably, he arranged every dance session — no two the same — to demonstrate Cunningham’s diversity. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z No American dancer today eats up space more gigantically — sometimes by striding in reverse — than he; no living American choreographer since Merce Cunningham so cleanses the dance palate as does Ms. Gerring. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Dance Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Both Cunningham and Mr. Taylor danced with Graham, who based her vocabulary on the body’s expressive reach as it originated in the pelvis. Graham, Taylor, Cunningham: Three Titans. One Stage. One Night. 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z That’s a very Rauschenbergian organization, and you see it, too, in Cunningham’s choreography: Dancers to the sides of the stage are no less important than dancers at the center. From Silence to Noise: Rauschenberg’s Influence on Music 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z In November of that year, Ms. Cunningham suffered another emotional setback with the unexpected death of her father, Donovan Cunningham. From Dating to Marriage, He Had a 5-Prong Plan 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Because the book was found after Cunningham’s death in 2016, it’s unclear when he finished it. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The legendary Times fashion photographer and Gotham sprite Bill Cunningham was wandering through the crowd, snapping pictures. Op-Ed Columnist: Hunting Birds of Paradise 2011-04-06T19:39:26Z This revival is among the first fruits of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s 2010-11 “Legacy Tour”; it opened here on Friday at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Dance Review: Cunningham and Cage?s ?Roaratorio,? a ?Legacy Tour? Revival 2010-06-07T22:15:00Z This is a good reason to check out smaller and more esoteric films such as Marta Cunningham’s doco Valentine Road, which almost certainly won’t be coming to a cinema near you. Melbourne international film festival 2013: 10 things to see and do 2013-07-24T02:23:00Z Choreographer Merce Cunningham and opera director Robert Wilson commissioned music from the British composer and bassist, and Wilson directed his first opera. 'Marilyn Forever' opera reveals composer Gavin Bryars' collaborative spirit 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Once, Ms. Cunningham helped arrange a Hindu service that involved figs, rice and ghee. Baby Boomers Are Drawn to Green and Eco-Friendly Funerals 2014-03-12T22:33:56Z He danced for her as well as for Merce Cunningham, who died in 2009. Paul Taylor Dance Company Comes to Lincoln Center 2012-03-09T18:58:14Z Fresh flowers were placed next to his photograph on the piano in the Cunningham Studio at Westbeth. ArtsBeat: Drawing Dance: Cunningham at Home in the West Village 2011-08-01T19:14:19Z Ms. Cunningham, a very conservative Christian, called it “a shocking moment,” but a nice one. From Dating to Marriage, He Had a 5-Prong Plan 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z It records three days of rehearsals by Cunningham's dance company at a disused Ford assembly plant in Richmond, California. Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011-01-01T00:05:49Z We are even asked to understand why someone like Walter Cunningham might join a lynch mob. To Kill a Mockingbird: too simple a moral tale? 2013-07-10T12:00:01Z If he didn't, that meant that Cunningham was seated at his computer, "working something out," as the choreographer would put it. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z There was surely "a kind of synchronicity" in Cunningham's choice of personages: Redgrave played Mrs Dalloway in the film of Woolf's novel, and Streep starred in the film of . The Hours by Michael Cunningham 2011-07-08T21:55:21Z This happens again when Liam Cunningham shows up as Nancy’s renegade former mentor, and I thought, “Or how about ‘Game of Thrones’?” Review: ‘The Hot Zone’ Stays Tepid 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z But, as Vinson Cunningham has noted, Franklin is clearly at work. “My Soul Is Satisfied”: An Intimate New Documentary Explores the Source of Aretha Franklin’s Power 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z He was talking about Merce Cunningham, but that’s true too of Ms. Tanowitz, a choreographer who labored quietly at her craft for decades and now is suddenly in demand everywhere. Review: In Merce Cunningham’s Honor, Pam Tanowitz Thrills 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z For Mondays With Merce, 19 interviews with Cunningham himself were filmed; so were 15 technique classes with him teaching, and rehearsal sessions of more than 30 works with him in charge. ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham Countdown: A Monday With Merce 2011-12-05T15:28:53Z “Bill Cunningham New York” shows the beloved New York Times fashion photographer, designated a living landmark in 2009, in action. What’s on TV Monday 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z But the four RUG dancers who danced six Cunningham works on Nov. 25-30 arrived at the end of the Cunningham line. ArtsBeat Blog: Cunningham Countdown: Saying Goodbye to the RUGs 2011-12-01T18:44:42Z Cunningham’s main concern, she said, had to do with movement extremes. At Work in Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Harris, who is also a chartered financial analyst, was single and working as a controller at a data center in Manhattan when he met Ms. Cunningham. From Dating to Marriage, He Had a 5-Prong Plan 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Cunningham, intensely influential on generations of modern-dance choreographers, had made dance and music independent of each other, and its music was frequently hard to take. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z After chatting with the shop’s proprietors, designer Kristan Cunningham and her husband, Scott Jarrell, Heather hired the firm on the spot. Toms Founder Blake Mycoskie Takes AD on a Tour of His Los Angeles House 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z “On this special occasion in 2019 we honor the collaborative spirit that Merce Cunningham epitomized by giving fellowships to five artists,” Mikhail Baryshnikov, the Baryshnikov Arts Center’s founder and artistic director, said in a statement. Baryshnikov Arts Center Announces 5 New Fellows 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The way he has employed computers makes him sound like the successor to Merce Cunningham. Dance Review: Random Dance Company Presents ‘Atomos,’ a Premiere 2014-03-19T21:47:05Z Decades before Cunningham discovered how to choreograph on a computer, his dancers were likened to robots by some baffled observers. Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z Even before Cunningham’s death in 2009, his artistic and business associates began taking steps to assure the preservation and accessibility of his legacy. Avant-Garde Dancing Feet,Tickling Composers? Minds 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z He and Mr. Cunningham will soon open a second Whoopemup in downtown Walla Walla. Reinvention in Walla Walla’s Wine Country 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z I wonder if his partner gets nervous when Cunningham writes a novel in which two Manhattan loft-dwellers find themselves hideously bored with each other after a marriage of, oh, 24 years or so. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z Marianne Preger-Simon, on the other hand, writes the gentle “Dancing With Merce Cunningham” from a position of preternatural acceptance and love. Balanchine and Cunningham: The Titans of 20th-Century Dance 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z There’s a nearly unbearable moment in the 2010 documentary “Bill Cunningham New York,” when Bill is asked about his faith—his Catholicism. Bill Cunningham Was So Alive 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Lee did not raise his children as a widower, although his wife, the former Frances Cunningham Finch, suffered from what was described as a nervous disorder, possibly bipolar disorder, before her death in 1951. Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z For 2009's Craneway Event, she filmed choreographer Merce Cunningham rehearsing his company in an abandoned car factory overlooking San Francisco bay. Tacita Dean chosen for Tate show 2010-12-14T16:24:13Z In that first On the Street column, Mr. Cunningham focused on women wearing ankle-length coats or skirts. Bill Cunningham’s Columns, the Early Days 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Cunningham was born in Centralia, trained at Cornish College and went on to become a major force on the American arts scene. What our writers love this week 2010-12-15T23:46:03Z How did Mr. Johns respond to Cunningham’s changefulness, to his need to reinvent himself? Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z Known as the Cunningham bible, the book is an exhaustive account meticulously assembled by Mr. Vaughan, whose work also forms the basis of the app. Even in Death a Choreographer Is Mixing Art and Technology 2012-08-10T04:00:20Z Cunningham’s choreography, without responding to the music, coexists with it, occasionally with uncannily close timing. Review: Merce Cunningham’s ‘Crises’ Opens Dance at the New Whitney 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z It’s odd that Cunningham, whose dance theater is based on mutual independence of design, music and dance, often achieved excitingly Gesamtkunstwerk fusions, whereas Graham seldom did. Review: Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham Works at Juilliard Dance 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The two men met in the late ’30s at the Cornish School in Seattle, where Cage was a teacher and Cunningham his student, seven years younger. The World of Dance in Letters, Locations and Clothes 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Those kinds of statements are in the air and people are saying that I want to start a new Cunningham company. ArtsBeat: Cunningham Legacy to Continue in France? 2012-03-13T10:00:46Z Mr. Cunningham lives in Dublin, one of many “Thrones” actors who hail from Ireland or Britain. Liam Cunningham on Sunday's Sad 'Game of Thrones' Moment 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Mearns, especially, needs more opportunities to dance Cunningham, as she did as part of “Night of 100 Solos,” a recent centenary celebration of the choreographer. At New York City Ballet, the Good, the Bad and the Ruby 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Cunningham first suggested in choreography the idea of two or more types of existence long before Cage’s death. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z Though Martin, Lindsay and Middlemas are the actual nominees, there were a core of six — also including Ed Cunningham and Glen Zipper — who, Martin said, made the film happen. Seattle native TJ Martin heads to Oscars with his documentary 'Undefeated' 2012-02-24T18:01:06Z “IVF raises more ethical questions than simply the question of whether you’re going to destroy embryos,” said Paige Comstock Cunningham, executive director of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity at Trinity International University. Lawmaker’s resignation raises questions of ‘pro-life approach’ to IVF, surrogacy 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z But as much as he loved most of Cunningham's work — "The technique made sense on my body" — he fled the prospect. Cunningham Legacy Tour almost skipped Seattle 2011-10-23T18:48:04Z “It isn’t what I think, it’s what I see,” Mr. Cunningham says. Capturing the Elusive Bill Cunningham 2010-03-23T18:39:00Z Cunningham lives in New York, in the neighbourhood where he set part of The Hours, his Pulitzer prize winning novel. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z The Merce Cunningham Dance Company gave its final Seattle performance last night, before continuing to California, the Midwest, Paris and the East Coast on the last legs of its Legacy Tour. Cunningham company offers a dazzling farewell 2011-10-30T23:02:04Z The Missouri Botanical Garden's Linnean House, built in 1882, is "the oldest continually operating display greenhouse in the United States," Cunningham says. The story of the Volunteer Park Conservatory, turning 100 this year 2012-08-08T23:27:05Z Cunningham has only recently started making his own "visually driven" music. Centre stage 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z Cunningham – one of the most significant artists of the 20th century – died at the age of 90 in the summer of 2009. Tacita Dean captures Merce Cunningham's final steps 2010-04-13T22:00:00Z Cage's years in Seattle in the late 1930s and early 1940s, where he taught at the Cornish College for the Arts and met Merce Cunningham and Mark Tobey, get a chapter-long examination. 'Where the Heart Beats': Zen Buddhism and the music of John Cage 2012-07-11T19:53:04Z By presenting fashions in the context of New York City architecture, Mr. Cunningham traces the evolution of aesthetics from colonial times to the rise of Modernism. Art Review: Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’: The Book as Exhibition 2014-03-13T20:25:16Z While both employ the clarity of Cunningham technique, their more direct connection is that Mr. Crossman, a disarming performer, is one of Ms. Bartosik’s dancers. Review: ‘Bound’ and ‘Ecsteriority4 (Part 2)’ Explore Confinement and Collision 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Patricia Lent, the director of licensing at the Merce Cunningham Trust, steered him toward “Signals” for its modular structure, playful quality and challenging solos. At Work in Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Atlas worked for decades with Merce Cunningham and was the resident filmmaker for Cunningham’s company beginning in the early 1970s. At REDCAT, 'Tesseract' blurs dance boundaries 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Joe Cunningham of San Francisco, who has been quilting for 40 years, lost all of his teaching gigs and seminars for the rest of the year. The pandemic-fueled demand for masks has reignited interest in an age-old skill 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z “It’s like going into a time machine and seeing how this part of the country used to look,” says Gregory Cunningham, our guide on a tour through the Cedar Creek Canoe Trail. At South Carolina’s only national park, paddle through some of the country’s oldest trees 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham is set to adapt the book for the screen. Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro to star in film of 'The Good House' 2013-08-06T20:32:15Z Behind Cunningham’s pioneering compositional methods and gnomic pronouncements lies a craftsman whose precision, rigor, and imagination could take your breath away. Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z These films, above all, are an invaluable record of Cunningham dancing his own choreography while still at the height of his powers in his late 30s. Review: Merce Cunningham’s Work, on Film, Then in the Flesh 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z It’s hard to believe that anyone had as lovely a time as Cunningham did when he was in the Army, stationed in France during the Korean War. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The show from Ms. Mearns, currently untitled, will include a piece by Beth Gill and a restaging of the Merce Cunningham Centennial Solos. Sara Mearns and Caleb Teicher to Debut Shows at the Joyce 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z They're coming from New York, Berlin, Sweden and our own backyard, and they include alumni of Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Trisha Brown Dance Company and other troupes from around the world. Seattle dance-improv festival presents 'Off the Cuff' concert 2011-08-03T18:56:11Z Cunningham often works with another producer, Seth Gordon, and the project knocked around their office but never quite got made. They recognized the story was a keeper: 'Finders Keepers' at Sundance 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z I still have not formally met Bill Cunningham, now 82 and still going strong. Op-Ed Columnist: Hunting Birds of Paradise 2011-04-06T19:39:26Z Still, Cunningham refuses backing down and reveals what she did not in those first episodes, that Kelly abused her too. "It took hell to get there": The legacy of "Surviving R. Kelly" bringing down a predator 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Cunningham, who commissioned famous and fledgling composers alike, abandoned the traditional premeditated relationship between motion and sound, choreographing his pieces independently from the scores. Music Review: For Composers, Bending the Notes for Cunningham 2011-03-21T21:36:32Z The love letters Cage wrote to Cunningham in 1943-44 sound notes to be found nowhere else in his writing. Review: John Cage’s Historical Niche, a Legacy in Letters 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Baryshnikov said that renaming his Studio 6A for Cage and Cunningham was an act of poetic justice, as if their spirits will retain a view over the river. Baryshnikov Plans Fund-Raising to Give Artists Space 2014-01-15T23:30:41Z The green facade of the Cunningham building will be on display for about six weeks. Former army block goes green for art 2013-07-17T07:39:59Z There is also a film of Cunningham, undated and uncredited, in the Trust’s archives, in which he performs the sequence four times, each time reducing the pause between poses. Twist, Bend, Reach, Step: A Merce Cunningham Solo Anyone Can Try 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z But a fascination with the working methods of Merce Cunningham led him to decamp for New York a few years later to study with him. In England, Closing a Chapter of Modern Dance 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Films That Allow the Elusive to Elude "Ocean," a 2011 film by Charles Atlas, captures a performance of Merce Cunningham's magnum opus in Minnesota. Critic?s Notebook: Charles Atlas Captures Merce Cunningham?s ?Ocean? on Film 2012-04-09T21:28:39Z She knows that medicine and diet have improved since Graham and Cunningham’s time, along with the study of well-being. Twyla Tharp and Her Body of Perpetual Motion 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z |
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