Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUNDAY, May 26, Merce Cunningham and his dance company completed their triumphant eight-show New York season. Five years ago the controversial, perennially avant-garde Cunningham troupe had to scout hard in order to recruit new members; few dancers cared to dance in stark silence, or worse, struggle to maintain their own difficult movement phrasing against the rhythmic and deafening machinations of a John Cage or David Tudor score...
...Cunningham's following among spectators was equally uncertain. Unlike either Graham or Limon, he was known only to the relatively small group of hard-core modern dance appreciators. Yet this past Sunday saw the big house of the Brooklyn Academy of Music full of attentive, enthusiastic viewers. And, back home in lower Manhattan Cunningham and his lead dancer, Carolyn Brown, run one of the most active dance schools in the country...
Identifying causes of Cunningham's recent increase in status (other than the fickle heart of the crowd and the waywardness of any vogue) is difficult. Every modern dance viewer is a scholar. Each knows what is and isnot dance even if he has seen little or no purely modern dance. Cunningham, once the depth of the is not, suddenly rises to be the big is. Perhaps his success may be connected with the vociferous dance critic's unending need to exclaim. More probably, the times have simply caught up with Cunningham...
...accompaniment" for How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run (TIME, March 15), by Cunningham's friend Composer John Cage, had nothing to do with music. At a small table downstage left sat Cage and Actor David Vaughan in dinner jackets, sipping champagne while they read humorous snippets and anecdotes from Cage's writings ("When Gandhi was asked what he thought about Western civilization, he said, 'It would be nice' "). The text had no clear connection with the skittery maneuvers that Cunningham & Co. were carrying out onstage, and none of it had any bearing...
...system, says New York Stock Exchange Executive Vice President R. John Cunningham, 41, the man responsible for getting it under way, "relieves brokers of the burden of storing, checking and accounting for stock." Nonetheless, the upsurge in trading-volume on the Big Board is averaging a hectic 12,479,000 shares a day in 1968-means that the C.C.S. alone will probably not be enough even after it is in full operation. So acute is Wall Street's paper deluge that the Big Board has been forced to impose restrictions, including bans on registration of new securities salesmen...