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...SUNDAY, May 26, Merce Cunningham and his dance company completed their triumphant eight-show New York season. Five years ago the controversial, perennially avant-garde Cunningham troupe had to scout hard in order to recruit new members; few dancers cared to dance in stark silence, or worse, struggle to maintain their own difficult movement phrasing against the rhythmic and deafening machinations of a John Cage or David Tudor score...
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...
...accompaniment" for How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run (TIME, March 15), by Cunningham's friend Composer John Cage, had nothing to do with music. At a small table downstage left sat Cage and Actor David Vaughan in dinner jackets, sipping champagne while they read humorous snippets and anecdotes from Cage's writings ("When Gandhi was asked what he thought about Western civilization, he said, 'It would be nice' "). The text had no clear connection with the skittery maneuvers that Cunningham & Co. were carrying out onstage, and none of it had any bearing...
...system, says New York Stock Exchange Executive Vice President R. John Cunningham, 41, the man responsible for getting it under way, "relieves brokers of the burden of storing, checking and accounting for stock." Nonetheless, the upsurge in trading-volume on the Big Board is averaging a hectic 12,479,000 shares a day in 1968-means that the C.C.S. alone will probably not be enough even after it is in full operation. So acute is Wall Street's paper deluge that the Big Board has been forced to impose restrictions, including bans on registration of new securities salesmen...