It's safe to say that there never was a choreographer with a greater appetite for performing at different locations than Merce Cunningham. Over the decades his company danced not just in a wide variety of theaters and galleries, but also in the Piazza San Marco in Venice; beside the ocean in Perth, Australia; in the Royal Albert Hall in London; in...
It is 100 years since the composer John Cage was born, 20 since he died, and 70 since he began an enduring relationship, both artistic and personal, with the dancer-choreographer Merce Cunningham. In the years following Cage's death, Cunningham (who died in 2009) made two new pieces that were accompanied by Cage music; he also made a few whose...
Daniel Arsham was barely aware of Merce Cunningham in 2005, when he got a call telling him that he was being considered as the set designer for the next work by Cunningham's dance company. Mr. Arsham was 25 and just two years out of art school at the Cooper Union. ''I knew him from my studies,'' he said recently, ''but as a passing name.'' A few...