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Merce Cunningham
- has a profound influence on modern dance
- developed 'choreography by chance'
- a technique where isolated
movements are selected to create a
sequence using random methods
such as tossing a coin
- his works may have a score,
but it's made separately from
the choreography; the same
can go for the set
- he has applied the uncertainty principle to works he
called "events". For these performances, he shuffles
together existing choreography from different works in
his repertory, and plays them out to a different score
- his works may have a score,
but it's made separately from
the choreography; the same
can go for the set
- a technique where isolated
movements are selected to create a
sequence using random methods
such as tossing a coin
- made a lot of
collaborations
- collaboration with John Cage-
explored a new approach to the
relationship between dance and music
which co-existed within their pieces, but
were not directly coordinated or
matched in time and were created
independently of each other
- "Independence between dance and music"
- "Independence between dance and music"
- innovative lighting, sets, and
costumes in collaboration with
Andy Warhol, Robert
Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns
- collaboration with John Cage-
explored a new approach to the
relationship between dance and music
which co-existed within their pieces, but
were not directly coordinated or
matched in time and were created
independently of each other
- formed the Merce
Cunningham
Company in 1953
- began dancing professionally with
the Martha Graham Dance
Company, in which he admired
and learned from, but wasn’t
convinced by certain aspects of
her work—particularly the idea
that every movement in a dance
had to have a “meaning.”
- ejected
psychological and
dramatic content
from his work
- for him, dance was about
people moving; it has no
necessary connection with
music, or with stories, or
with feelings
- ejected
psychological and
dramatic content
from his work
- his choreography emphasis on line
and shape
- "The dancers are not pretending to be other than themselves
… They are, rather than being someone, doing something."
- his technique evolved from
his experience and desire to
combine use of the legs in
ballet, with the use of the
upper body in modern dance
- he used the five
positions of the back:
upright, curve, arch, twist
and tilt
- he used the five
positions of the back:
upright, curve, arch, twist
and tilt
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