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 ...

Composer John Cage stretched every limit of the term “music,” even writing one “song” that consisted of nothing but silence. Merce Cunningham, who was Cage’s creative and personal partner, takes a ...

Considered by many the greatest living choreographer, Merce Cunningham's career began with Martha Graham and spans 60 years of innovations in dance and music. At 87, Merce Cunningham is still creating ...

It is very tempting to write with reverence about the Opening Night of Cal Performances' new season, since the death of Socrates, a dance-ritual-enactment on which the evening ended, looms so large in ...

With his Merce Cunningham Dance Company, founded in New York in 1953, Mr. Cunningham collaborated with composer John Cage (with whom he also had a romantic partnership) and painters Robert ...

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 ...

Do not e-mail Merce Cunningham. Yes, he's an "avant" in the avant-garde who has famously embraced technology, including state-of-the-art choreographic software. But the rest of the G4 laptop he ...

Merce Cunningham (1973) / Don McDonagh -- Twenty years of Merce Cunningham's dance (1982) / Richard Kostelanetz -- Grace and clarity (1944) / John Cage -- Early reviews -- Space, time and dance (1952) ...

Merce Cunningham has quite often and quite famously (or infamously, depending on your point of view) declared that his dances aren’t about anything. “There’s no thinking involved in my choreography,” ...

Dancers re-create Merce Cunningham’s 1979 “Travelogue” and premiere a new work. Explore the connection between past and present in contemporary dance with Merce Cunningham’s “Travelogue,” last ...

With Merce Cunningham, she forged one of the great partnerships in dance history. She later recounted those years in an incisive, unsparing memoir. By Claudia La Rocco Plus: Long Island beach houses, ...