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Merce Cunningham
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Author : David Vaughan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-11
Merce Cunningham written by David Vaughan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with Performing Arts categories.
Merce Cunningham reached the age of 75 in 1994, an age at which many creative artists are content to rest on their laurels, or at least to leave behind whatever controversies they may have caused during their careers. No so Cunningham. In the first place, his 70s have been a time of intense creativity in which he has choreographed as many as four new works a year. Cunningham is a strongly committed as ever to the discovery of new ways of moving and of making movement, refusing to be hampered by the physical limitations that have come with age. Since 1991 every new work has been made at least in part with the use of the computer program Life Forms, which enables him to devise choreographic phrases that he himself would be unable to perform - and which challenge and develop the virtuosity of the young dancers in his company. The essays collected in this special issue of Choreography and Dance were written over the last few years and discuss various aspects of the work of Cunningham as seen both from the outside and the inside.
Dancing With Merce Cunningham
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Author : Marianne Preger-Simon
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2019-02-18
Dancing With Merce Cunningham written by Marianne Preger-Simon and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Dancing with Merce Cunningham is a buoyant, captivating memoir of a talented dancer’s lifelong friendship with one of the choreographic geniuses of our time. Marianne Preger-Simon’s story opens amid the explosion of artistic creativity that followed World War II. While immersed in the vibrant arts scene of postwar Paris during a college year abroad, Preger-Simon was so struck by Merce Cunningham’s unconventional dance style that she joined his classes in New York. She soon became an important member of his brand new dance troupe—and a constant friend. Through her experiences in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Preger-Simon offers a rare account of exactly how Cunningham taught and interacted with his students. She describes the puzzled reactions of audiences to the novel non-narrative choreography of the company’s debut performances. She touches on Cunningham’s quicksilver temperament—lamenting his early frustrations with obscurity and the discomfort she suspects he endured in concealing his homosexuality and partnership with composer John Cage—yet she celebrates above all his dependable charm, kindness, and engagement. She also portrays the comradery among the company’s dancers, designers, and musicians, many of whom—including Cage, David Tudor, and Carolyn Brown—would become integral to the avant-garde arts movement, as she tells tales of their adventures touring in a VW Microbus across the United States. Finally, reflecting on her connection with Cunningham throughout the latter part of his career, Preger-Simon recalls warm moments that nurtured their enduring bond after she left the dance company and, later, New York. Interspersed with her letters to friends and family, journal entries, and correspondence from Cunningham himself, Preger-Simon’s memoir is an intimate look at one of the most influential companies in modern American dance and the brilliance of its visionary leader.
Merce Cunningham
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Author : Roger Copeland
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Merce Cunningham
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Author : Jack Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 1998-08-21
Merce Cunningham written by Jack Anderson and has been published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-08-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This text gathers writings by and about the choreographer, Merce Cunningham, tracing his career from 1944-1992. For nearly 60 years he challenged and provoked audiences by stripping theatrical dance of its traditional narrative.
Merce Cunningham
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Author : Carrie Noland
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-01-23
Merce Cunningham written by Carrie Noland and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-23 with Art categories.
One of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance. Far too often, however, accounts of Cunningham’s work have neglected its full scope, focusing on his collaborations with the visionary composer John Cage or insisting that randomness was the singular goal of his choreography. In this book, the first dedicated to the complete arc of Cunningham’s career, Carrie Noland brings new insight to this transformative artist’s philosophy and work, providing a fresh perspective on his artistic process while exploring aspects of his choreographic practice never studied before. Examining a rich and previously unseen archive that includes photographs, film footage, and unpublished writing by Cunningham, Noland counters prior understandings of Cunningham’s influential embrace of the unintended, demonstrating that Cunningham in fact set limits on the role chance played in his dances. Drawing on Cunningham’s written and performed work, Noland reveals that Cunningham introduced variables before the chance procedure was applied and later shaped and modified the chance results. Chapters explore his relation not only to Cage, but also Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, James Joyce, and Bill T. Jones. Ultimately, Noland shows that Cunningham approached movement as more than “movement in itself,” and that his work enacted archetypal human dramas. This remarkable book will forever change our appreciation of the choreographer’s work and legacy.
Merce Cunningham
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Author : David Vaughan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-12
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Celebrates the past 50 years of Cunningham¿s career, from his role as principal dancer in the Martha Graham Dance Co., to the formation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Co. in 1953, from his use of ¿chance operations,¿ to his present, innovative work with the computer program, LifeForms. Incorporates images of performances & rehearsals, along with candid photos by many important photographers. Features examples of Cunningham¿s scores, & set & costume designs by the artists with whom he has collaborated over the years, such as John Cage, Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, Isamu Noguchi, Nam June Paik, Frank Stella, David Tudor, & Andy Warhol. Includes an illustrated chronology to 1997 listing his dances, videos, films, & events. Illus. Oversize.
Merce Cunningham
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Author : David Vaughan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
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Essay by David Vaughan.
Merce Cunningham
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Author : Fionn Meade
language : en
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers
Release Date : 2017
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Published in conjuction with exhibitions held at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 8-July 30, 2017, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, February 11-April 30, 2017.
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Author : Merce Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: Song Cave
Release Date : 2019-06-18
Merce Cunningham written by Merce Cunningham and has been published by Song Cave this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-18 with Performing Arts categories.
On the occasion of Merce Cunningham's centennial comes this handsome new edition of his classic and long-out-of-print artist's book Changes: Notes on Choreography, first published in 1968 by Dick Higgins' Something Else Press. The book presents a revealing exposition of Cunningham's compositional process by way of his working notebooks, containing in-progress notations of individual dances with extensive speculations about the choreographic and artistic problems he was facing. Illustrated with over 170 photographs and printed in color and black and white, the book was described by its original publisher as "the most comprehensive book on choreography to emerge from the new dance ... [which] will come to stand with Eisenstein's and Stanislavsky's classics on the artistic process." By the time these notebooks were published, Cunningham had already led the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for 15 years, and had collaborated with Cage and others on milestones such as Variations V (1966) and RainForest (1968), the latter with Andy Warhol, David Tudor and Jasper Johns. Along with his essay collection Dancing in Space and Time (1978), Changes is one of the most significant publications on Cunningham's enduring contributions to dance, which developed through collaboration with John Cage to incorporate formal innovation with regard to chance, silence and stillness.
Merce Cunningham
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Author : James Klosty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Merce Cunningham written by James Klosty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Choreographers categories.
A collection of essays and other writings on Merce Cunningham and his work by his colleagues and collaborators.