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... © 2004 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2004 Four Key Discoveries Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Fifty A discussion with Carolyn Brown, Merce Cunningham, Laura Kuhn, Joseph V. Melillo, Thecla Schiphorst, and David Vaughan The following discussion was held...

...Nancy Kauffman Copyright © Yale/Theatre 1977 1977 Merce Cunningham, Actor By Nancy Kauffman “An is intelligence functioning at intuitional velocity.” -c. e. cummings “Dance is a spiritual exercise in physical form.” -Merce Cunningham Composer John Cage tells...

... filmmaker, writer, lecturer, and teacher in around the categories of music-theater, sound the United States and Europe. She was a installation, and conceptual art. He was the principal dancer with the Merce Cunningham musical force behind GAle GAtes from 1996 Dance Company for twenty years...

... “No Boundaries” will be back next season, 10 even though many of the old boundaries still remain, and some of them probably ought 11 to. But which ones? Watch this space. 12 Theater 40:1  doi 10.1215/01610775-2009-012 13 © 2010 by Joseph Roach 14 15 16 17 Merce Cunningham (1919 – 2009...

... to. But which ones? Watch this space. 12 Theater 40:1  doi 10.1215/01610775-2009-012 13 © 2010 by Joseph Roach 14 15 16 17 Merce Cunningham (1919 – 2009) 18 Pina Bausch (1940 – 2009) 19 20 Miriam Felton-Dansky, Jacob Gallagher-Ross, and Tom Sellar 21 22...

... to. But which ones? Watch this space. 12 Theater 40:1  doi 10.1215/01610775-2009-012 13 © 2010 by Joseph Roach 14 15 16 17 Merce Cunningham (1919 – 2009) 18 Pina Bausch (1940 – 2009) 19 20 Miriam Felton-Dansky, Jacob Gallagher-Ross, and Tom Sellar 21 22...

... to be complicit in the overlapping spheres 33 of expression and exhibition. 34 Merce Cunningham once said, “If you want to express yourself, go weave bas- 35 kets.” What? Is basket weaving any more expressive of self than what I’m doing right 36 now? How does one express one’s self? Am I...

...- 2 up front hierarchical community. Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and Robert Rauschenberg formed a company there, experimenting with sound, light, and movement and with intersections among forms. Presenting local artists and publics...

... the John Cage frame look like? What would the Stanislavski frame look like? elkins My entry into the institute, it felt a little skewed or foreign because I don t have a theater degree. I liked that you brought up John Cage because John Cage for me is a link to Merce Cunningham, and Merce Cunningham...

... are Merce Cunningham and Alwin Nikolais, choreographers who con- tinue to employ trained, craftsmanly dancers, and hence can't 139 strictly be called post-modern. But Cunningham and Nikolais occupy distinct corners of the contemporary dance world, establishing certain...

..., José Limon, Alvin Ailey, and Merce Cunningham, even presentations by companies using contact improvisation or pedestrian vocabularies, were all beginning to look more and more alike. I connected this homogenization of appearance to new regimens of training in which all dancers had begun...

... that this exchange deeply characterized one imagines Merce Cunningham walking under- the meaning of the play, Wilson’s response was: water. “That’s exactly why I want to cut it He pre- But when the play begins, we are immediately ferred, rather, complete disinterestedness...

... communicate with significance in American culture at the the unconverted? A consideration of com- moment. merce’s inescapable reality would be useful The glasses of feminism can be reductive since, presumably, a girl has to earn a living. to both theater and feminism, just like the And some probably...

... forms, and you will find them in the work of dancers like Merce Cunningham, often to music by John Cage or other avant garde composers. This sort of dance does away with all traditional forms, and is usually abstract insofar as the human body can be made...

... nonwhite residents from various neighborhoods,17 and 73 mahmoud Merce Cunningham, Syvilla Fort, Dorothy Hermann, and Bonnie Bird in Three Inventories of Casey Jones, Cornish College, Seattle, 1938. redlining that began in the 1930s furthered the racial segregation in the city. The 1940s incarceration...

... and Puppet. I was into John On Novelty and Anachronism in Shakespeare Cage and Merce Cunningham, which leads one into the orien- I have a genuine appreciation for the concept of novelty, of a talism of it all. novelty act, of what novelty means, how a huge part of art history...

..., nor a mere prank on good taste. It is a deceptively utopian project, equal parts speech and energy. 69 keithley Just as Cage and Merce Cunningham systematically undid the hierarchical arrange- ment of music...

.... Again, where is they know nothing about Merce Cunning- the artwork located? It is very different from ham, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, or where painting is located, so I never felt that I John Cage. What can we do? He’s not there. have a debt toward the work of art, and I still He’s ninety...

... (with or without leotards) and a battered old piano (with or without “preparations”) long sufficed as cast, orchestra, sets, and costumes for Merce Cunning- ham and John Cage. Music-theater is scarcely reducible to such a simple, abstract form...