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...choreography of Merce Cunningham is to dancing what nonobjectivity is to painting or atonality to music. His work is total abstraction, es chewing the cliches and conventions of gesture, costume and music by which both ballet and modern dance seek to evoke moods, emotions and dramatic climaxes. Whatever emotions Cunningham's audiences feel are entirely in dividual. The same movement or interplay of bodies might engender fear in one person and laughter in another-and that is the way it is meant...
...onetime soloist with Marsha Graham, Cunningham has earned international acclaim with the small, highly honed company he formed...
...rich guys that should have to pay," said Donald Cunningham, a 14-year old boy who marched with SDS from Roxbury...
...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...