Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choreography of Merce Cunningham is to dancing what nonobjectivity is to painting or atonality to music. His work is total abstraction, es chewing the cliches and conventions of gesture, costume and music by which both ballet and modern dance seek to evoke moods, emotions and dramatic climaxes. Whatever emotions Cunningham's audiences feel are entirely in dividual. The same movement or interplay of bodies might engender fear in one person and laughter in another-and that is the way it is meant...
...onetime soloist with Marsha Graham, Cunningham has earned international acclaim with the small, highly honed company he formed...
Oddly enough, it was not until last week that he undertook his first New York City season, at Brooklyn's Academy of Music. In Scramble, danced to the electronic whoops and cracklings of Composer Toshi Ichiyanagi's Activities for Orchestra, Cunningham and his eight dancers - barefoot, as usual, and in bright colors - stretched, tottered, swung, pivoted, scurried and bounced among strips of colored cloth stretched at different levels on aluminum frames...
Scramble snapped with gaiety and humor, dominated by Cunningham him self, who looked like a king-sized elf swiveting in a high wind - and by the taut, controlled eroticism of his beautiful leading dancer, Carolyn Brown...
...rich guys that should have to pay," said Donald Cunningham, a 14-year old boy who marched with SDS from Roxbury...