The choreographer Merce Cunningham would have turned 100 years old this week. And so his revolutionary legacy in dance was commemorated with special performances in London, New York and Los Angeles ...

Installation view of Merce Cunningham: For Camera on the High Line (image by the author for Hyperallergic) In Locale (1980), a thirty-minute film collaboration between Charles Atlas and the Merce ...

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 ...

It’s just before eight o’clock when the creepy, atmospheric music begins echoing up through four stories of darkness. The only sign of life on display inside the Moore building is a young man slumped ...

Merce Cunningham, one of America’s most influential choreographers, died Sunday at age 90, The New York Times reports. The newspaper says he appeared in every performance by his Merce Cunningham Dance ...

What legacy will you leave behind when you kick the bucket? A bestselling novel? A kid who will cure cancer? A YouTube video of you mangling Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” at karaoke night? When ...

Merce Cunningham is on the line, calling from his loft in New York City. The modern-dance pioneer has just launched into a discussion of how he used chance to revolutionize dance composition, when his ...