Dancing with Merce Cunningham

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Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063620
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Dancing with Merce Cunningham by : Marianne Preger-Simon

Download or read book Dancing with Merce Cunningham written by Marianne Preger-Simon and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415965750
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (657 download)

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Book Synopsis Merce Cunningham by : Roger Copeland

Download or read book Merce Cunningham written by Roger Copeland and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years (Signed Edition)

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Publisher : Aperture Direct
ISBN 13 : 9781683951377
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years (Signed Edition) written by Merce Cunningham and published by Aperture Direct. This book was released on 2005-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Merce Cunningham

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Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Book Synopsis Merce Cunningham by : Jack Anderson

Download or read book Merce Cunningham written by Jack Anderson and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998-08-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134372140
Total Pages : 113 pages
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Book Synopsis Merce Cunningham by : David Vaughan

Download or read book Merce Cunningham written by David Vaughan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Merce Cunningham

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Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781935963141
Total Pages : 451 pages
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Book Synopsis Merce Cunningham by : Fionn Meade

Download or read book Merce Cunningham written by Fionn Meade and published by Distributed Art Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Changes

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Total Pages : 196 pages
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Book Synopsis Changes by : Merce Cunningham

Download or read book Changes written by Merce Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Merce Cunningham Redux

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Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 9781576879429
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Merce Cunningham Redux by : James Klosty

Download or read book Merce Cunningham Redux written by James Klosty and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Klosty'sMerce Cunninghamwas the first book ever published about Cunningham. It appeared in 1975 and was republished in 1986. Now, for the 100th anniversary of Cunningham's birth, it is reincarnated for a twenty-first-century audience in duotone printing, redesignedand completely reimagined with an additional 140pages of photographs, many published never before. In the years since their passing, the historical importance of the partnership of John Cage and Merce Cunningham has grown to the point where no consideration of avant-garde art, music, and dance in America makes sense if Cunningham and Cage are not posited, serene and smiling, at the wellspring of its inspiration. This is true not only in America but around the globe as well. Art does not exist in a vacuum and neither did Cunningham and Cage. Painters such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, and Robert Morris, and composers such as Earle Brown, Christian Wolff, Morton Feldman, David Tudor, and Pauline Oliveros joined the endeavor. Jasper Johns slyly lured Marcel Duchamp into allowing his iconic Large Glass to be used as decor for a Cunningham dance. Cunningham repeatedly invited Erik Satie (without Satie's permission) into his musical family. This seemingly haphazard association of innovative artists served as the nearest thing America could offer in counterbalance to Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes. In addition to Klosty's photographs of the artists, composers, and dancers;and the dances themselves, both in rehearsal and performance; the book contains texts from Cunningham's associates including John Cage, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolyn Brown, Paul Taylor, Lincoln Kirstein, Edwin Denby, and a dozen others.

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022654124X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Book Synopsis Merce Cunningham by : Carrie Noland

Download or read book Merce Cunningham written by Carrie Noland and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Chance and Circumstance

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307575608
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Chance and Circumstance by : Carolyn Brown

Download or read book Chance and Circumstance written by Carolyn Brown and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited memoir from one of the most celebrated modern dancers of the past fifty years: the story of her own remarkable career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the two brilliant, iconoclastic, and forward-thinking artists at its center—Merce Cunningham and John Cage. From its inception in the l950s until her departure in the l970s, Carolyn Brown was a major dancer in the Cunningham company and part of the vibrant artistic community of downtown New York City out of which it grew. She writes about embarking on her career with Cunningham at a time when he was a celebrated performer but a virtually unknown choreographer. She describes the heady exhilaration—and dire financial straits—of the company’s early days, when composer Cage was musical director and Robert Rauschenberg designed lighting, sets and costumes; and of the struggle for acceptance of their controversial, avant-garde dance. With unique insight, she explores Cunningham’s technique, choreography, and experimentation with compositional procedures influenced by Cage. And she probes the personalities of these two men: the reticent, moody, often secretive Cunningham, and the effusive, fun-loving, enthusiastic Cage. Chance and Circumstance is an intimate chronicle of a crucial era in modern dance, and a revelation of the intersection of the worlds of art, music, dance, and theater that is Merce Cunningham’s extraordinary hallmark.

Merce Cunningham

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Publisher : Damiani Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788862084659
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Merce Cunningham by : Stephanie Berger

Download or read book Merce Cunningham written by Stephanie Berger and published by Damiani Limited. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is chiefly photographs of a dance event held in the Riggio Galleries at Dia:Beacon, in New York City by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

The Dancer and the Dance

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Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780714529318
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book The Dancer and the Dance written by Merce Cunningham and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading dance innovator Merce Cunningham not only describes his development as a dancer and choreographer, but also discusses individual compositions--including Torse, Inlets and Squaregame--revealing a great deal about his collaborations with such modern masters as John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, Jasper Johns and Morris Graves.

Love, Icebox

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Publisher : John Cage Trust
ISBN 13 : 9781942884385
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Book Synopsis Love, Icebox by : John Cage

Download or read book Love, Icebox written by John Cage and published by John Cage Trust. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cage's passionate, distraught and affectionate letters to Cunningham provide a vivid portrait of the start of their life together These early letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham will be revelatory, for while the two are widely known as a dynamic, collaborative duo, the story of how and when they came together has never been fully revealed. In the 39 letters of this collection, spanning 1942-46, Cage shows himself to be a man falling deeply in love. When they first met at the Cornish School in Seattle in the 1930s, Cage was 26 to Cunningham's 19. Their relationship was purely that of teacher and student, and Cage was also very much married. It was in Chicago that their romantic relationship would begin. Cage was teaching at Moholy-Nagy's School of Design when Cunningham passed through town as a dancer with the Martha Graham Company, appearing on stage on March 14, 1942. Cage's letters, which begin in earnest a week later, are increasingly passionate, distraught, romantic and confused, and occasionally contain snippets of poetry and song. They are also more than love letters, as we see intimations that resonate with our experience of the later John Cage. Love, Iceboxtakes its shape from these letters--transcribed, chronologically ordered, and in some instances reproduced in facsimile. Laura Kuhn, Cage's assistant from 1986 to 1992 and now longtime director of the John Cage Trust, adds a foreword, afterword and running commentary. Photographic illustrations of their final 18th Street loft in New York City, as well as personal and household objects left behind, remind us of the substance and rituals of their long-shared life.

A Pictures Book for J.C. Xmas 1984

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ISBN 13 : 9781935202790
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book A Pictures Book for J.C. Xmas 1984 written by Merce Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A facsimile edition of an unusual sketchbook created for and personally gifted by the celebrated American choreographer Merce Cunningham to his lifetime partner, John Cage. The original, held in the archives of the John Cage Trust, comprises an extensive elaboration of Cunningham's choreographic notation and provides a rare glimpse into his working methods. Relating directly to his stage work entitled "Pictures" (1984), his unique color notations function here at the delicate intersection between drawing and dance"--Colophon.

Other Animals

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Total Pages : 104 pages
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Download or read book Other Animals written by Merce Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known worldwide for his remarkable, groundbreaking choreography, Merce Cunningham has a secret: he also draws. For the first time he opens a door into his fantastical animal kingdom with Aperture's publication of Other Animals. Cunningham, an obsessive observer with a colossal sense of humor, revels in nature with the same childlike vision and expressiveness that infuses his dances. Like his dances, his drawings are impressions, inventions, gestures, and interactions. Cunningham introduces us to a bird riding a turtle, a bizarre hybrid creature wearing a fashionable sweater, and an ostrich that rivals the gracefulness of his dancers. The drawings are collected in a beautifully produced, colorful volume, with selected entries from Cunningham's journals and photographs of some of his dances and their notations. These drawings offer a key to understanding how Cunningham renders his vision of the world through dance--and how his vision is translated into costuming through his collaboration with designers such as Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçonnes.

Leap Before You Look

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300211910
Total Pages : 401 pages
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Download or read book Leap Before You Look written by Helen Anne Molesworth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La exposición refleja la historia del Black Mountain College (BMC), fundado en 1933 en Carolina del Norte y concebido como universidad experimental que situaba al arte en el centro de una educación liberal que pretendía educar mejor a los ciudadanos para participar en la sociedad democrática. La educación era interdisciplinaria y concedía gran importancia al debate, la investigación y la experimentación, dedicando la misma atención a las artes visuales –pintura, escultura, dibujo- que a las llamadas artes aplicadas –tejidos, cerámica, orfebrería, así como a la arquitectura, la poesía, la música y la danza.

Art Performs Life

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Book Synopsis Art Performs Life by : Walker Art Center

Download or read book Art Performs Life written by Walker Art Center and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artwork by Merce Cunningham. Contributions by Thelma Golden, Meredith Jones, Laura Kuhn.