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...TV station PBS called it “the opera event of the year”: the world premiere production of The Hours, Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1998 novel, in an adaptation by composer Kevin Puts and librettist...
...The opera is based on Michael Cunningham’s 1998 novel The Hours, which was made into a successful film four years later....
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...New Work for Goldberg Variations is a precise and even response to Bach’s score, full of counterintuitive, Merce Cunningham-esque co-ordination....
...Ireland’s central bank was scathing in its assessment of Davy’s failures, with its Director of Enforcement and Anti-Money Laundering, Seána Cunningham describing how Davy’s controls were “easily sidestepped...
...Three major ballet companies joining forces to honour Merce Cunningham: once upon a time, it would have been unthinkable for the master of postmodern dance....
...While seemingly every other international company was busy celebrating Merce Cunningham’s centenary, Benjamin Millepied and his LA Dance Project opted to reconstruct Lewitzky’s 1970 Kinaesonata — a confident...
...The house made two films, one showing the collection by the photographer Jackie Nickerson, the other a documentary created by the video artist Chris Cunningham, examining Boafo’s work....
...When she took classes with Merce Cunningham and Alwin Nikolais in New York, she found their modern styles equally restrictive....
...Finally Laura crosses her arms, a sign that feeding time is over....
...There is a little of Merce Cunningham in the self-contained stillness of such moments in Gravité....
...It also served as a reminder that Cunningham’s vast repertoire continues to defy classification....
...Cunningham performer, joined them on stage....
...It’s practically a Merce Cunningham-style rolling of the dice, and yet the production adds up to a surprisingly coherent exploration of gender....
...There is a special intellectual pleasure in seeing works by Merce Cunningham and William Forsythe back to back....
...At the time, the modernists he admired — from Merce Cunningham to the Nouvelle danse française, as French contemporary dance was then called — were considered little more than “people who flushed toilets...
...Andrew Cunningham, Sydney-based partner and innovation leader at MinterEllison, says Empower will become a permanent fixture....
...The choreography for Métaboles and L’Arbre des songes is well crafted in the Cunningham tradition, but as academic as modern dance gets....
...But although she was at the forefront of experimentation in dance, she never attained the level of fame enjoyed by the likes of Cunningham and Trisha Brown....
...For more details, visit aperture.org All photographs courtesy of the artists; © Jo Ann Callis, courtesy of Rose Gallery, Santa Monica; © Imogen Cunningham Trust; © Laura Letinsky, courtesy of Yancey Richard...
...Both have scores by Thom Willems, but the choreography operates on its own wavelength, not unlike Merce Cunningham’s work with John Cage....
...While Merce Cunningham decreed shortly before his death in 2009 that his company would fold after a farewell tour, he made similar plans for a trust to oversee stagings by other ensembles and uphold stylistic...
...“The trouble is the environment,” said Nick Cunningham, analyst at Agency Partners....
...In many ways, Forsythe became to ballet what Merce Cunningham was to modern dance, displacing the established logic and hierarchy of the genre, opening up new horizons in the process....
...Merce Cunningham’s Sounddance, on the other hand, is an uproarious choreographic crescendo....
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