New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
On Saturday and Sunday the Merce Cunningham Dance Company performed its latest series of site-specific Events here at Dia:Beacon.
maykr (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
The Merce Cunningham Dance Company will be back at Dia:Beacon this weekend wrapping up the company's series of performances among the museum's galleries. This weekend's performance will engage the Torqued Ellipses by Serra. Avant Turntablist, Maria Chavez will be among the audio collaborators for the performance. She has posted on her blog a few images she snapped earlier this week as...
Off Center (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5eHlW2AQgs Without a vehicle like “American Idol” to discover the next great voice-over talent, programmers at the Walker turned to their own colleagues to pluck the voice for upcoming radio spots to promote the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s Ocean. Here’s a glimpse from the casting couch at Wednesday’s auditions. Permalink | No comments yet | Add [...]...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
It is unclear whether John Cheever and Twombly ever met during Cheever's 12-month sojourn in Rome. Twombly crops up in Rachel Cohen's book A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, but it is in the context of Cage and the choreographer Merce Cunningham and their bohemian downtown New York crowd. Cheever, the so-called "Chekhov of the suburbs", mixed in different...
