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Merce Cunningham
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Ms. Oliver
Dance History Unit
The only way to do it is to do it
- Merce Cunningham
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What do you already know
about Merce Cunningham? Write down on your worksheet anything
that you know about:
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham Company
Cunningham Style
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Who is this guy?
Dancer
Choreographer
Contributor to the Avant Garde
Considered to be postmodern
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Where did he come from?
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Born April 16, 1919
Centralia, Washington
Tap and Ballroom
Dance is most deeply concerned with
each single instant as it comes along.
Cornish College of the Arts
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Early Years
Met John Cage his musical director
Mills College
Moved to New York
1939-1945 for Martha GrahamsCompany
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Early WorkQuickTime and a
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Grahams Company
The Wind Remains 1943 for Paul Bowles
1st solo concert with John Cage in NY
1944
What is dance? Where is it performed?
What is it about? - Cunningham in 1940s
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Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Founded in the summer of 1953
Black Mountain College, NC Still active with 14 dancers
Works with both composers and artists
Choreographed 200 dances for company
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Cunningham Style
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Dance, music, and art exist
independently
The use of chance in choreographingphrases
Use cards, coins, and dice for
choreography
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Cunningham Style (contd)
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Influenced by:
Albert Einstein
Zen
Dadaism
Abandoned:
Conflict & Resolution
Cause and Effect
Climax and Anti-ClimaxQuickTime and a
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Vocabulary
Change of direction
Change of facing
Rebound
Weight Shift
Rhythm
SpaceTime
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Famous Cunningham Works
Suite for Five
Split Sides
Crises
Sound Dance
Fabrications CRWDSPCR
Crises
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Companies Performing
Cunningham
New York City Ballet
The Ballet of the Paris Opera American Ballet Theatre
Boston Ballet
White Oak Dance Project
Pacific Northwest Ballet
Pennsylvania Ballet
Zurich Ballet
Rambert Dance Company
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Dance forms
No longer can
dance
Developed
Lifeforms
Still choreographs
Now Danceforms
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Interesting facts
Twyla TharpsAfter Suite
Andy Warhol collaboration
50 years
Dance worlds EinsteinQuickTime and a
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Postmodern Dancers Like
Cunningham Judson Dance Theater
Murray Louis
Mark Morris
Alwin Nikolais
Yvonne Rainer
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ClosureYou have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you
nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no
paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in
museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing
but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is notfor unsteady souls.- Merce Cunningham
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What have you learned about
Merce Cunningham? Is your worksheet done?
Can you answer the questions from the
beginning of the presentation?
Is there anything you want to know
about Cunningham?
Who else would you like to know about?
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Resources http://www.merce.org
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/cunningham_m.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merce_Cunningham
http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3715&source_type=A
http://www.abt.org/education/archive/choreographers/cunningham_m.html
Dance Spirit Vol. 10 No. 10 December 2006
Merce Cunningham: Dancing in Space and Time edited byRichard Kostelanetz
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NC Competency Goals
Technology/Computer Skills:
Goal 2: The learner will demonstrate knowledge and skills in the use ofcomputer and other technologies.
Goal 3: The learner will use a variety of technologies to access, analyze,
interpret, synthesize, apply, and communicate information. Dance:
Goal 3: The learner will understand that dance can create and communicatemeaning.
Goal 4: The learner will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinkingskills in dance.
Goal 5: The learner will demonstrate and understand dance in various
cultures and historical periods.
Goal 7: The learner will make connections between dance and othercontent areas
Goal 8: The learner will understand dance as an art form with a range ofopportunities for involvement.
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