标题: 梅斯-坎宁安 编舞家 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-3-4 02:42 标题: 梅斯-坎宁安 编舞家 Merce Cunningham
Choreographer | Class of 1985
Title
Choreographer
Location
New York, New York
Age
66 at time of award
Deceased
July 26, 2009
Area of Focus
Choreography and Dance
Published July 1, 1985
ABOUT MERCE'S WORK
Merce Cunningham was a choreographer and the director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Cunningham created more than 160 dances, most of them for his company, which was formed in 1953. Characterized by movement free of specific expression or intention, and a separation of dance from music, his works were seen in the repertories of the New York City Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre, the Paris Opera Ballet, and the Rambert Dance Company, among others.
BIOGRAPHY
Cunningham’s dances include Pictures (1984), Points in Space (1986), Fabrications (1987), Five Stone Wind (1988) Enter (1992), Ocean (1994), Ground Level Overlay (1995), BIPED (1999), Interscape (2000), and Split Sides (2003). Cunningham collaborated on two books, Changes, Notes on Choreography (Frances Starr, 1968) and The Dancer and the Dance, interviews with Jacqueline Lesschaeve (1985). Cunningham worked extensively in film and video, and in collaboration with Charles Atlas, produced the documentary, “Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime in Dance,” which was shown on PBS's American Masters in 2001.
Cunningham received his first formal dance and theater training at the Cornish School in Seattle and began choreographing in 1942.