Word: cunningham
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...WORK OF Merce Cunningham is the starting point for any discussion of Laura Dean's theater of today's avant-garde dance. For Cunningham first pioneered an idea Dean and her contemporaries take for granted: that dance is an independent structure. Cunningham required his dancers to count an entire dance in their minds and muscles, not to rely on external cues. The con-centration involed is so demanding that a new performance style evolved as its inevitable consequence--the choreographer directed his dancers to present movement rather than project meaning. As a result, Cunningham audiences confront the countenances of dancers...
Laura Dean is considered a "post-modern" choreographer. Although she and her peers carry forward many of Cunningham's ideas, they diverge from the master's path in significant ways. While Cunningham never directly collaborates with composers--occasionally his dangers do not hear the sound accompaniment until opening night--Dean for several years worked closely with musician Steve Reich, and now composes her own music. She's intersted in showing how dance and music connect at the deepest level: in the use of the physical self as instrument. Unlike Cunningham, who exploits the illusion of randomness by splaying dancers around...
...forever will be the Beanpot, a fact which may mean little to those of you who got in here on geographical distribution. To those who grew up listening to Joe Greene's traffic reports, au contraire, beans are as much a part of our heritage as hourlies and Howie Cunningham...
...that Billy Cunningham actually said, in response to a question about offensive problems arising when George McGinnis and Doctor J play at the same time: "The big problem is that both of them need the ball to score. When Doug Collins is in the game it's better because he doesn't need the ball to score...
...that Bill Scheft did 20 straight Sam Cunningham touchdown plunges over the Quincy House hedge...