Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forms, dance has experienced perhaps the greatest growth during the past decade. The bold experiments in modern dances during the '60s have come to fruition in the '70s; audiences regularly pack theaters to see such well-known troupes as Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham, and Pilobilus. And the trend toward innovation has so spread that now companies in back-country towns like Northampson, Mass. perform works once restricted to New York's Greenwich Village. Fifteen years ago dance in Boston meant the Boston Ballet, which recently staged Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty"; today the number of dance and ballet companies...
...performance halls necessary to establish a devoted audience following. For this reason dance troupes have, for the past several years, collaborated in dance festivals featuring a few name companies interspersed among local and experimental troupes. The most famous such festival, New York Dance Umbrella, has used groups like Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham as its "anchor" companies; for the most part, these festivals have so far been unsuccessful in Boston...
...state's protective urge does not find these accommodations reasonable. "It's amazing people developed this great fear for our beaches only last year, when for 20 years no one has been denied the use of a beach or had his condominium washed away," says Paul Cunningham, 36, a nattily dressed lawyer for the town's biggest developments. He is also South Padre city attorney and a part owner of the luxurious Hilton condominiums, which have sold out even before completion of construction. "There's not a lot of proof about erosion. Some...
Rick Labunski, a young and creative South Padre architect, and Mary Lou Campbell, leader of what Cunningham calls the island's "shell and bird" environmentalists, disagree over how much should be built on the barrier reef. Says Labunski: "Believe it or not, there are some people who do not want any development." Says Campbell: "In Texas, we have always thought there was plenty of everything, that nothing needed to be conserved. But is it really progress to destroy those natural things people have come to enjoy?" But they agree on one thing: in light of the erosion and devel...
City Manager Lilljedahl says the only long-range hope for his island is to find a way to reverse the erosion. "Otherwise," he says, "we will disappear." Cunningham insists that with all of the resources avail able, a way will be found to conquer the sea's appetite. The town is about to hire an engineering firm to study solutions, such as extending the existing jetty or building groins off the shore to reduce the impact of the waves. But Geologist Morton is skeptical. "Any attempt to trap sediment on the island only works when you have a good...