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17 March 2011  The Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, a long-time patron of Merce Cunningham Dance Company, has purchased the entire collection of Cunningham artistic collaborators across visual and performing arts. Collection includes names like Rauschenberg, Cage, Stella, Lichtenstein, and Warhol. [...] 7 March 2011  The two-year Legacy Tour has already traveled to more than 20 cities and will wind down with a final performance in New York on Dec. 31, 2011. On that bittersweet New Year’s Eve, the remarkable ensemble, a creative engine for the last half of the 20th century, will disband. [...] 11 February 2011 We’re flying to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to enjoy a performance on the Cunningham company Legacy Tour. [...] 20 December 2010 In one year’s time, New Year’s Eve, 2011, Merce Cunningham Dance Company will be no more. Try to see the company in the next year. You will not regret it. [...] 20 November 2010  Researching Merce Cunningham Trust trustee and former Cunningham dancer, Patricia Lent, I came upon this post-911 story — a sweet, adorable tale and so well written in the New York Times by Jennifer Dunning. The story concerns a class of P.S. 234 third graders taught by Ms. Lent, then a school teacher. She takes her [...] 6 June 2010  “It was unutterably moving to watch,” said long time company archivist David Vaughan of the historic reconstruction of “Roaratorio” (1983) that graced Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s fare-thee-well performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall this weekend. [...] 24 May 2010 "You really see people dancing. It's especially clear that this was a concern of Merce's. There's a lot of humanity in this work." Thus choreographer Neil Greenberg remembers Roaratorio, the Merce Cunningham work dating from 1983 that will be restaged at Disney Concert Hall next weekend. A member of Merce Cunningham [...] | |||
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