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

It’s just before eight o’clock when the creepy, atmospheric music begins echoing up through four stories of darkness. The only sign of life on display inside the Moore building is a young man slumped ...

Timing, as they say, is everything. When I contacted North Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) recently, it was just to make arrangements to see “Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge,” ...

The choreographer Merce Cunningham would have turned 100 years old this week. And so his revolutionary legacy in dance was commemorated with special performances in London, New York and Los Angeles ...

Installation view of Merce Cunningham: For Camera on the High Line (image by the author for Hyperallergic) In Locale (1980), a thirty-minute film collaboration between Charles Atlas and the Merce ...

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

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

Dance, by its very nature, is the most ephemeral of all arts. How can it be saved for the enlightenment or pleasure of future generations of both dancers and audiences? In dance, there is no official ...