If Martha Graham was the founder of modern dance. Merce Cunningham is the founder of contemporary dance. His unique, expansive notion of the aesthetic possibilities of dance has for over five decades inspired the leading lights of contemporary art, music, and theater. Using "chance procedures" as the underlying structure for choreography. Cunningham liberated dance from its rigid adherence to a musical score. From the 1970s to the present he has experimented with film, video, and computers, and has collaborated with ...
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If Martha Graham was the founder of modern dance. Merce Cunningham is the founder of contemporary dance. His unique, expansive notion of the aesthetic possibilities of dance has for over five decades inspired the leading lights of contemporary art, music, and theater. Using "chance procedures" as the underlying structure for choreography. Cunningham liberated dance from its rigid adherence to a musical score. From the 1970s to the present he has experimented with film, video, and computers, and has collaborated with director Charles Atlas on several film and video dances. This book, the first major critical compilation on Cunningham's work, represents a response on the part of writers, painters, dancers, critics, and others on Cunningham's creative development -- from 1944 to 1999. An invaluable and essential book on a major artist, it offers detailed looks at, among other things, Cunningham's noted collaborations with the likes of John Cage, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns, as well as texts about important performances, with photos; appreciation by Nureyev, Paul Taylor, and essays such as "Cunningham as Sculptor" and "Cunningham and Duchamp."
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