Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Merce Cunningham, 1919-2009

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L to R: Walter Pierce, Executive Director, Wang Celebrity Series, Merce Cunningham, Holly Sidford, New England Foundation for the Arts, in 1988.

Dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham, one of the 20th century's great innovators, died on Sunday (July 26, 2009) at 90 years of age. Written appreciations from around the world are pouring onto the internet honoring this legendary figure, many featuring video or photo galleries, below is a sampling.

The New York Times

The New York Times: ArtsBeat blog, Alastair Macaulay

The Washington Post: Sarah Kaufman

Los Angeles Times: Culture Monster blog

San Jose Mercury News

The Christian Science Monitor

The Times (UK)

Telegraph (UK)

The Sydney Morning Herald

"Alma Guillermoprieto: Merce Cunningham" in The New Yorker

The Baltimore Sun

Charlotte Higgins on Culture (Guardian UK blog)

Miami Herald

The Wall Street Journal: Speakeasy blog

National Public Radio: the two-way news blog

Rolling Stone

BBC News

Berkshire Eagle

Village Voice: Deborah Jowitt

The Centralia Chronicle (Cunningham's home town paper)


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The Celebrity Series has presented the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
on two occasions: in 1970, two lecture/demonstrations featuring
Cunningham and Company with, among others, the composer John Cage in
the pit; and again in 1988 for three distinct programs at John Hancock Hall.

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