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...The setting, co-conceived by Tanowitz, Harriet Jung, Clifton Taylor and Reid Bartelme, features a circular plinth, an L-shaped catwalk and a long bench, all painted a dazzling swimming-pool blue....
...Paul Anderson’s lighting is dark yet alive; Christina Cunningham’s costumes suggest the mid-20th century, but only vaguely....
...Tony Blair to N.F.L star Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Giselle Bundchen....
...In Act II the vengeful wilis come close to dancing him to death — those off-kilter tours en l’air show us a man on the brink — but Giselle urges him to unleash an exultant sequence of tireless entrechats...
...The latest, L’Heure Exquise, marks the 40th anniversary of her Covent Garden debut. The 70-minute piece was created by Maurice Béjart for the then 62-year-old La Scala legend Carla Fracci in 1998....
...Rauschenberg created these in Japan, which he first visited on tour with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1964....
...‘Dancing pure and simple’ Second Hand/Signals/Borst Park/Rainforest, Merce Cunningham, Sadler’s Wells (February 10 1972) “Still the most adventurous and uncompromising of creators, [Merce] Cunningham shows...
...Olivia Grandville’s A l’Ouest was more muted in its effects, yet ultimately more absorbing....
...I haven’t let anyone else cut my hair since we met 10 years ago, so when I land in LA he is the first person I see.” brentonleesalon.com Lauren Gurvich King, CEO of Lauren Gurvich Lifestyle“Tracey Cunningham...
...Bill Cunningham New York (2010) Lucinda Chambers, Colville I love the fact that Bill [the New York Times fashion photographer, who died in 2016] just quietly and beautifully got on with what he did for...
...His Albrecht in Giselle has an alien glamour just right for the slumming aristocrat....
...Morris is only 62 but “there’s been a big focus on legacy with a giant capital L”....
...Ballet’s heroines have been having a rough ride in the UK so far this year, with most of them — Giselle, Manon, Marguerite, Odette, Juliet — ending up dead in their lovers’ arms....
...Two hundred years later Bernini, best known for his gravity-defying sculptures, devised scenarios that included “L’Inondazione”, a recreation of the flooding of the Tiber....
...The late Trisha Brown was long intent on liberating dance not just from music, theme and story, as Merce Cunningham had done, but from shape, imagery, and the hauling and being hauled of partnering....
...Le Guin and L. Howell”, it was played with Scrabble letters....
...“Dancers on a Plane”, based on a Tantric sex painting, with dancing lines and abstractions of genitals, is dedicated to the choreographer Merce Cunningham, and includes letters from his name alternating,...
...The choreography for Métaboles and L’Arbre des songes is well crafted in the Cunningham tradition, but as academic as modern dance gets....
...The death of Cunningham in 2009, followed by the winding-up of his company, deprived the festival of one of its regular headliners....
...Please post comments and questions at the end of this article, or email david.tang@ft.com Photograph: Harold Cunningham/Getty Images...
...Each studio is named after important figures from his past: the dancers/choreographers Merce Cunningham, Jerome Robbins and Rudolf Nureyev, the composer John Cage....
...The 54-year-old Clark made a few brief, Merce Cunningham-style interventions among his dancers, every footfall greeted with grateful coos of joy....
...To this end, Land provided Adams with a modest budget to purchase photographs from artists such as Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham and Harry Callahan....
...Both have scores by Thom Willems, but the choreography operates on its own wavelength, not unlike Merce Cunningham’s work with John Cage....
...Susan L Serbin Media, PA, US...
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