Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MERGE CUNNINGHAM, 46, Dropped-Out from the Graham company 21 years ago because of her "psychological drift." He didn't want a mother figure, he wanted Dada instead. Ever since, he has been one jump beyond the avantgarde. He was among the first American choreographers to use musique concrète, the first to leave the structure of a ballet to chance. He rehearses in silence so that his dancers will not be influenced by the music. Themes? "Supply your own," he says. Yet for all his seeming whimsy, Cunningham is a dancer and choreographer with serious intentions...
...founding, the Harkness Ballet alone has commissioned more music scores than any U.S. orchestra except the New York Philharmonic. One sign of dance's expanding horizon is the interest of artists in exploring its possibilities. Painters Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Frank Stella have collaborated with Merce Cunningham; Underground Film Maker Ed Emshwiller is filming dancers in what may be a dance-dominated "total cinema...
...with 28 constructions on display. Though the original idea for the festival was Foss's, the planning and expenses are being borne by a dozen different local and state institutions (even Buffalo's bantam-sized 7,800-student state college got in the act by inviting Merce Cunningham and his dance company to perform two new works during a four-week stay). The festival committee is chaired by the Albright-Knox's director, Gordon Smith, 61, and the residual deficit will doubtless be met by the gallery's longtime Medici, former seven-goal polo player...
...case of Mrs. Cunningham, the respite was as long as any recorded. After the first alcohol treatment worked, Dr. Perell sent her home from Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J., with the prescription to "feel free to do a little elbow bending." Mrs. Cunningham felt like two bourbon-and-ginger-ale highballs a day. "This," she says, "was the only thing I could keep down." But it did not raise the alcohol level in her blood high enough to keep the oxytocin down. For that, a level close to the intoxication mark is needed. Her contractions began again. So back...
...fortnight ago, Patricia Cunningham gave birth to a full-term, 5-lb. 5-oz. girl. If she had had an infusion shortly before delivery, the baby might have been a bit high at birth. But she had had none; Beth Ann was sober and altogether normal...