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 ...

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 ...

As an artist, dancer and choreographer who sought to “enlarge the possibilities” given in any one space, body or moment, Merce Cunningham may have seen in his imminent death the chance to make ...

For a moment at Wolf Trap on Tuesday night, it looked as if tomatoes might fly, or perhaps a deviled egg from someone's picnic hamper. The Merce Cunningham Dance ...

NEW YORK — Choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham was hailed Monday as a revolutionary artist who remade the very definition of dance. Cunningham — who still was working as he marked his 90th ...

Merce Cunningham, the avant-garde choreographer whose unorthodox approaches and discoveries throughout a six-decade career made him one of the most important artists of the 20th century, influencing ...

This Saturday, the Beach Sessions Dance Series, now marking its ninth year, presented a new arrangement of Merce Cunningham’s “Beach Birds” (1991) and a “response” by Sarah Michelson. The ...

When Robert Swinston was a young dancer starting out with Merce Cunningham Dance Company 30 years ago, the great man himself was still performing. “Merce was still the lead dancer at 61 years old,” ...

A Trisha Brown company tour recalls a time when Rauschenberg, one of the country’s most influential artists, was changing and being changed by American dance. By Brian Seibert and George Etheredge ...

New York City Ballet’s 75th anniversary celebration and Dance Reflections from France delivered some of this year’s brightest moments. By Gia Kourlas and Brian Seibert The discovery of a group of ...