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Merce Cunningham

Index Merce Cunningham

Mercier Philip "Merce" Cunningham (April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009) was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of the American modern dance for more than 50 years. [1]

79 relations: American Ballet Theatre, Andrew Culver (composer), Andy Warhol, Arts & Business Council of New York, Bank Street (Manhattan), Belgrade, Belgrade International Theatre Festival, Benedetta Tagliabue, Beverly Emmons, Black Mountain College, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bruce Nauman, Carolyn Brown (choreographer), Centralia, Washington, Charles Moulton (choreographer), Christian Wolff (composer), Creative Commons, Dan Flavin, Daniel Arsham, Dartmouth College, David Tudor, Dia:Beacon, Ernesto Neto, Flo Ankah, Foofwa d'Imobilité, Frank Stella, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Gavin Bryars, Gordon Mumma, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, I Ching, Jan Van Dyke, Jasper Johns, John Cage, John Paul Jones (musician), Jonah Bokaer, Karole Armitage, Laurence Olivier Award, Legion of Honour, List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts, Liz Phillips, MacArthur Fellows Program, Mark Lancaster, Martha Graham, Martha Graham Dance Company, Modern dance, National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame, New York City, New York City Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, ..., Paul Taylor (choreographer), Praemium Imperiale, Radiohead, Rambert Dance Company, Rei Kawakubo, Remy Charlip, Richard Serra, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Schott Music, SIGGRAPH, Sigur Rós, Site-specific performance, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Sol LeWitt, Sonic Youth, Star-Gazette, Stochastic, Tacita Dean, Takehisa Kosugi, The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, The New York Times, The OpenEnded Group, Viola Farber, Walker Art Center, West Village, Westbeth Artists Community, White Oak Dance Project, William Anastasi. Expand index (29 more) »

American Ballet Theatre

American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City.

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Andrew Culver (composer)

Andrew Culver (born August 30, 1953) is a composer whose works have included chamber and orchestral music, electronic and computer music, sound sculpture and music sculpture, film, lighting, text pieces, and installations.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

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Arts & Business Council of New York

The Arts & Business Council of New York (ABC/NY), also known as Arts & Business Council, Inc., is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to develop more creative partnerships between the arts and business communities in New York, enhancing the business skills of the arts sector and the creative engagement of the business sector.

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Bank Street (Manhattan)

Bank Street is a primarily residential street in the West Village part of Greenwich Village in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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Belgrade

Belgrade (Beograd / Београд, meaning "White city",; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Serbia.

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Belgrade International Theatre Festival

The Belgrade International Theatre Festival (abbr. BITEF) is a theatre festival that takes place every September annually in Belgrade, Serbia.

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Benedetta Tagliabue

Benedetta Tagliabue (born 24 June 1963) is an Italian architect.

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Beverly Emmons

Beverly Emmons (b. December 12, 1943) filmreference.com, accessed November 1, 2011 is a lighting designer for the stage, dance and opera.

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Black Mountain College

Black Mountain College was an experimental college founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier, and several others.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a performing arts venue in Brooklyn, New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance.

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Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist.

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Carolyn Brown (choreographer)

Carolyn Brown (born September 26, 1927) is an American dancer, choreographer, and writer.

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Centralia, Washington

Centralia is a city in Lewis County, Washington, United States.

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Charles Moulton (choreographer)

Charles Moulton (born July 13, 1954) is an American choreographer and visual artist who has staged dances on Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Project, The Joffrey Ballet, The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, The Ohio Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theater, Gauthier Dance (Stuttgart), and many other companies in the US and abroad.

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Christian Wolff (composer)

Christian G. Wolff (born March 8, 1934) is an American composer of experimental classical music.

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Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.

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Dan Flavin

Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933 – November 29, 1996) was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.

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Daniel Arsham

Daniel Arsham (born 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American artist.

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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.

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David Tudor

David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.

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Dia:Beacon

Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries is the museum for the Dia Art Foundation's collection of art from the 1960s to the present.

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Ernesto Neto

Ernesto Saboia de Albuquerque Neto (born 1964, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a contemporary visual artist.

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Flo Ankah

Flo Ankah is an actress, filmmaker, and singer from France residing in New York City.

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Foofwa d'Imobilité

Foofwa d’Imobilité (born 1969) is a Swiss dancer and choreographer.

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Frank Stella

Frank Philip Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.

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Fundació Antoni Tàpies

The Fundació Antoni Tàpies ('Antoni Tàpies Foundation') is a cultural center and museum, located in Carrer d'Aragó, in Barcelona, Catalonia.

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Gavin Bryars

Richard Gavin Bryars (born 16 January 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.

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Gordon Mumma

Gordon Mumma (born March 30, 1935, in Framingham, Massachusetts) is an American composer.

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Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) is a non-profit membership organization that seeks to document, honor and preserve the architectural heritage and cultural history of several downtown New York City neighborhoods: Greenwich Village, the Far West Village, the Meatpacking District, the South Village, NoHo, and the East Village.

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I Ching

The I Ching,.

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Jan Van Dyke

Jan Van Dyke (15 April 1941 – 3 July 2015) was an American dancer, choreographer, dance educator and scholar who was a pioneer of modern and contemporary dance.

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Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art.

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John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.

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John Paul Jones (musician)

John Richard Baldwin (born 3 January 1946), better known by his stage name John Paul Jones, is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer.

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Jonah Bokaer

Jonah Bokaer (born October 1, 1981) is an American choreographer and media artist.

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Karole Armitage

Karole Armitage (born March 3, 1954) is an American dancer and choreographer currently based in New York City.

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Laurence Olivier Award

The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London at an annual ceremony in the capital.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts

The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts.

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Liz Phillips

Liz Phillips (born 1951) is an American artist specializing in sound art and interactive art.

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MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship, or "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 individuals, working in any field, who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States.

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Mark Lancaster

Colonel John Mark Lancaster, (born 12 May 1970) is a British Conservative Party politician, who has served as Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes North since the seat's creation at the 2010 general election.

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Martha Graham

Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer.

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Martha Graham Dance Company

The Martha Graham Dance Company, founded in 1926, is known for being the oldest American dance company.

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Modern dance

Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance, primarily arising out of Germany and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame

The National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame, in the Saratoga Spa State Park, Saratoga Springs, New York, was established in 1986.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein.

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Paris Opera Ballet

The Paris Opera Ballet (French: "Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris") is an integral part of the Paris Opera and the oldest national ballet company.

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Paul Taylor (choreographer)

Paul Taylor (born July 29, 1930) is an American choreographer.

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Praemium Imperiale

Prince Takamatsu The Praemium Imperiale (lit. "World Culture Prize in Memory of His Imperial Highness Prince Takamatsu", 高松宮殿下記念世界文化賞, Takamatsu no miya denka kinen sekai bunka-shō) is an international art prize awarded since 1989 by the Imperial family of Japan on behalf of the Japan Art Association in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and theatre/film.

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Radiohead

Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985.

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Rambert Dance Company

Rambert Dance Company is a leading British dance company.

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Rei Kawakubo

(b. 1942) is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris.

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Remy Charlip

Abraham Remy Charlip (January 10, 1929 – August 14, 2012) was an American artist, writer, choreographer, theatre director, theatrical designer, and teacher.

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Richard Serra

Richard Serra (born November 2, 1938) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal.

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Robert Rauschenberg

Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement.

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Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Fox Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist.

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Schott Music

Schott Music is one of the oldest German music publishers.

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SIGGRAPH

SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques) is the annual conference on computer graphics (CG) convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization.

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Sigur Rós

Sigur Rós is an Icelandic avant-rock band from Reykjavík, who have been active since 1994.

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Site-specific performance

Site-specific performance is performance created in relation to a physical site and staged at the site itself (as opposed to a theatre space).

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Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia or SFRY) was a socialist state led by the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, that existed from its foundation in the aftermath of World War II until its dissolution in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars.

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Sol LeWitt

Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism.

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Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City, formed in 1981.

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Star-Gazette

The Star-Gazette is the major newspaper for Elmira, New York.

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Stochastic

The word stochastic is an adjective in English that describes something that was randomly determined.

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Tacita Dean

Tacita Charlotte Dean OBE RA (born 1965) is an English visual artist who works primarily in film.

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Takehisa Kosugi

is a Japanese composer and violinist associated with the Fluxus movement.

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The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize

The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize or Gish Prize is given annually to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life." It is among the most prestigious and one of the richest prizes in the American arts.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The OpenEnded Group

The OpenEnded Group is a digital art collective comprising Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar, and Paul Kaiser.

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Viola Farber

Viola Farber (February 25, 1931 – December 24, 1998) was an American choreographer and dancer.

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Walker Art Center

The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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West Village

The West Village is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, largely thought to constitute the western (or northwestern) portion of the larger Greenwich Village neighborhood.

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Westbeth Artists Community

Westbeth Artists Housing is a nonprofit housing and commercial complex dedicated to providing affordable living and working space for artists and arts organizations in New York City.

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White Oak Dance Project

The White Oak Dance Project was a dance company founded in 1990 by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Mark Morris to be the touring arm of the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation.

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William Anastasi

William Anastasi (b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1933) is an American painter and visual artist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merce_Cunningham

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