Word: cunningham
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...which comes to life in "Coppelia," and the spunky Kate in "The Taming of the Shrew." In addition, the Boston Ballet's 1994-95 season blends the classic with the modern in American Festival I and II, two ballets which feature the works of recent American ballet luminaries like Cunningham, Feld, Balanchine, Taylor, and Tharp...
Gurney, a chronicler of gentility and Waspishness in such dapper plays as The Dining Room, The Middle Ages and Love Letters, would seem just the fellow for the job. And his sextet of reliable actors -- John Cunningham, Jack Gilpin, Julie Hagerty, Mary Beth Peil, Robert Stanton and Jennifer Van Dyck -- shifts from one role to another as smartly as commuters leaping from the Stamford express to the Cos Cob local. But as directed by Playwrights boss Don Scardino, the evening is a failure. It ransacks the canon for easy laughs and outbursts. With only a few minutes devoted to each...
Ulysses Dove, 47, another New Yorker, defiantly opts for freedom. He has earned the rare distinction of being the only dancer to have performed for both Ailey and Merce Cunningham, whose choreographic visions were diametrically opposite. Despite his admitted debt to Ailey, for whom he also composed dances, Dove has no interest in centering his own work on black motifs. In fact, sex rather than race dominates most of the 17 pieces, raw but energetic, that he has created since he stopped dancing in 1980. "If you want to be political, the place to do that is politics," he says...
That sort of diversity has won the band critical plaudits over the years. In the 1950s, Bill Cunningham of the Boston Herald wrote: "The immortal Sousa himself would be proud of this cultured collection of blowers and beaters...
...creme of contemporary American artists, writers, filmmakers, dancers and musicians to Parisian audiences. Over the years it has been a hangout for Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein and has served as host of performances by the likes of John Cage, Samuel Beckett, Philip Glass, Steve Lacy and Merce Cunningham. In 1987 the center sold its dilapidated headquarters on the Boulevard Raspail and embarked on an ambitious building program in the Bercy region of eastern Paris. And that's where all the trouble really began...