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...with a $300,000 Ford Foundation grant to stimulate modern dance, Lichtenstein concentrated in his first three years on lining up topflight contemporary dance groups who could not afford Manhattan production prices. He organized regular appearances by more than a dozen companies, including the American Ballet Theater, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Martha Graham, Alwin Nikolais and Maurice Bejart's Ballet of the 20th Century...
Brooklyn born, raised and educated (Brooklyn College), Lichtenstein studied with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, then danced with the New York City Opera and the Dance Drama Company. He quit to spend three years as a fund raiser for Brandeis University. This was followed by a Ford Foundation fellowship on which he activated the subscription program of the New York City Ballet, an accomplishment that brought him to the attention of the Academy's board of directors...
Married. Frederick Forsyth, 33, English journalist and author of two back-to-back bestsellers, The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File; and Carrie Cunningham, 26; both for the first time; in Gibraltar...
...infected these professional dancers with an over-concern with form, at the expense of felt experience. Choreographers like Alvin Ailey and Donald McKayle have rooted their works in their experience, importing the riches of jazz and blues. Their works are alive, far more powerful than those of Merce Cunningham, who rips his dances out of all reality without leaving any reference posts. If it was depressing to see the beautiful bowl-kickers "happening," it was hardly less so to see the very gifted dancers who performed at Agassiz last weekend have so little...
Spearheaded by Cunningham's five goals and Murison's two goals and three assists, the Big Red kept a ten-point cushion through the remainder of the game...