Merce Cunningham

Creative Elements

David Vaughan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781134372218
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Performing Arts

Merce Cunningham reached the age of 75 in 1994, an age at which many creative artists are content to rest on their laurels, or at least to leave behind whatever controversies they may have caused during their careers. No so Cunningham. In the first place, his 70s have been a time of intense creativity in which he has choreographed as many as four new works a year. Cunningham is a strongly committed as ever to the discovery of new ways of moving and of making movement, refusing to be hampered by the physical limitations that have come with age. Since 1991 every new work has been made at least in part with the use of the computer program Life Forms, which enables him to devise choreographic phrases that he himself would be unable to perform - and which challenge and develop the virtuosity of the young dancers in his company.
The essays collected in this special issue of Choreography and Dance were written over the last few years and discuss various aspects of the work of Cunningham as seen both from the outside and the inside.

Index

Acocella, Joan 97

Adams, John D.S. 55

Addiss, Stephen 22

Aeon 52

“Afrika,” (Sergei Bugaev) 11

Amacher, Maryanne 55

Anderson, Jack 19, 21

Anthony, Mary 47

Antic Meet 25, 49, 52, 56

Ashley, Robert 8, 55

Assemblage 55

Atlas, Charles 100

August Pace 11

Austin, Larry 55

Banjo 47

Barrow, Helen 3, 4, 6, 92, 94

Bartosik, Kimberly 10, 94

Beach Birds 89, 97

Beach Birds For Camera 100, 102

Behrman, David 4, 54–55, 76

Black Mountain College 46,47

Bloom, Michael 98

Blue Studio: Five Segments 70

Brown, Carolyn 3, 6, 18, 20, 22, 31, 33, 34, 37–42, 53

Brown, Earle 46, 48–49

Buchla, Don 55

Cage, John 1, 18, 20, 21, 38, 46–49, 51–75, 77–78, 100, 104

Calder, Alexander 21

Calvert, Thomas 79, 80, 98

Canfield 36–38, 54

Caplan, Elliot 99, 100, 101

Cargo X 8, 10

Carousal 8

Change of Address 96–97

Channels/Inserts 10, 23, 24, 57

Cole, Michael 13, 94

Collage 51

Copeland, Roger 26

Crises 8, 52

Croce, Arlene 24

CRWDSPCR 89

CRWDSPCR (film) 99–104

Cage/Cunningham 102

Cunningham Dance Technique/Intermediate Level (videotape) 99

Diamond, Emma 90, 94

Dilley (Lloyd), Barbara 31, 53

Dimas de Melo Pimenta, Emanuel 5, 55

Dime a Dance 48

Duchamp, Marcel 34, 35

Dunn, Douglas 41, 42

Eleven 8

Emery, Susan 23

Enter 57, 89, 97

Erdman, Jean 46–47

Event for Television 24, 25

Events 19–21, 30, 55

Exchange 4, 12, 57

Fabrications 5–6, 10, 14

Farber, Viola 20

Feldman, Morton 19, 46, 48

Fetterman, William 42

Feuillet, Raoul Auger 65

Field Dances 52

Finlayson, Victoria 6,12

Five Stone Wind 10–11, 14, 57–58

Freebury, Jean 103

Fullemann, John 55

Gafner, Frédéric 103

Galaxy 49

Gallopade 4, 5

Garth, Midi 47

Gibson, Jon 55

Gifford, Joseph 47

Good, Alan 9, 12, 90

Gottschalk, Louis Moreau 47–48

Gray, D'Arcy Philip 55

Guest, Ann Hutchinson 65

Harper, Meg 32, 34

How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run 57

I Ching 18,23,72,77

Ichiyanagi, Toshi 52, 54

Inlets 10

Inlets 2 10

Ives, Songs (Jerome Robbins) 5

Ives, Charles 76

Jenney, Neil 40, 42

Johns, Jasper 29–30, 33–40, 42

Kalve, Martin 55

Kerr, Catherine 23

King, John 55

Kirby, Michael 42

Komar, Chris 27, 94

Kosugi, Takehisa 8, 55, 58, 76

Kulick, David 8

Lancaster, Mark 10–11

Landrover 55

Lavish Escapade 49

Lazaroff, Judy 5, 23

Leaves Are Fading, The (Antony Tudor) 5

Lent, Patricia 4, 6, 9

LifeForms 1, 12, 14, 79–86, 88–94, 96–98

Litz, Katherine 47 Lucier, Alvin 54

McGoldrick, Larissa 11, 12

Miller, Rob 55

Moog, Robert 52, 55

Morris, Robert 36–38

Mumma, Gordon 53, 54, 55

Nancarrow, Conlon 52

Nauman, Bruce 37–38

Navar, Emily 13, 94

Neels, Sandra 31, 41

Neighbors 11,12

Night Wandering 49, 52

Nilsson, Bo 49, 52

Nocturnes 37

Objects 40–42, 54

Ocean 89

Oliveros, Pauline 54, 57

Paik, Nam June 52

Phrases 57

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