"Choreography and the Dance"
Interview
By: Merce Cunningham
Date: 1970
Source: Cunningham, Merce. "Choreography and the Dance." The Creative Experience. Edited by Stanley Rossner and Lawrence E. Abt. New York: Grossman, 1970. Reprinted in Celant Germano, ed. Merce Cunningham. Milan, Italy: Edizioni Charta, 1999, 42–49.
About the Artist: Merce Cunningham (1919–) has been directing and choreographing for more than fifty years. He began his dance education in Seattle, Washington, and was a solo dancer in Martha Graham's company when he first arrived in New York City in 1939. Eventually he left Graham's company to pursue his own ideas of dance. He began to choreograph his dances, and formed the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Black Mountain College in the summer of 1953. Since then Cunningham has created nearly two hundred works for his company as well as for the New York City Ballet,...
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1950's The Arts Primary Sources
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