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Merce Cunningham Dies at 90
Merce Cunningham, choreographer in unorthodox approaches and cutting-edge discoveries during a period of six to ten-year career made him one of the most important artists of the 20th century, influencing filmmakers and directors, choreographers and throughout the world, died on Sunday night, the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, explains. He was 90.
Cause of death was not reported.
With Merce Cunningham Dance Company, based in New York in 1953, Mr. Cunningham has collaborated with composer John Cage (with whom he also had a romantic partnership) and the painter Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol and other world modern art figures. He created a work unlike any other – plotless, spacious leisure pace and often characterized by clarity, tranquility and freshness of the dance. He also developed a rigorous and elegant dance, based on the technique of dance stretchiness band, which absorbs weightedness Martha Graham, with whom he danced in his first hit and run, turn and release the body.
But its success is not limited to style, subject, the quantity of books (about 200), or the extraordinary longevity of its world-class company in an area known for illegal financing and public support wavering . Mr. Cunningham also invented the radical methods of work that blew the mold and produces new forms of movement.
In short, Mr. Cunningham extent of what is possible in dance.
Since the first of his latest work, Mr. Cunningham fi convention, which includes the unknown and unpredictable. For example, in “eyeSpace” (2006), the public has been pre-loaded iPod shuffle and encouraged in particular selections of music at will.
Even late in his life when he was physically weak, crippled by arthritis, and a cloud of white hair was diluted in a net, Mr. Cunningham is a staunch modernist. His commitment to contemporary music has led him in the coming years to create a partnership with the renowned British art-rock band Radiohead and Icelandic band Sigur Ros minimaliste, who both performed live at the premiere of “Split Sides in 2003.
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In the case of other choreographers studied music and imagination of his inspiration, Mr. Cunningham, to create strategies for a physical, a Vegas high roller and techno-wizard.
To split the atomic unit of music and dance. The measures are no longer dependent on a coup in the work of Mr. Cunningham, dance and music are totally independent of each other, existing side by side in space and time, which is made in the same place specified number of minutes, but primarily as a matter of association. He also presented “chance operations”, said a rotation to determine the sequence of sections of the dance. To make this work, has had to expand and refine their technique of dance, developing ways to link the movements that normally is not possible, next to each other. The result is a feature that unnaturalness of his style, and only the most highly qualified and capable dancers can be simple and clear. Cunningham dancers have been rated as among the best in the world of professional dance.
In some works by Mr. Cunningham, including decisions relating to the management of all the costumes and lights are rolling dice or flipping a coin. This was the case in “Split Sides” (2003), conducted in two parts so that the two sets of everything (lighting design, costumes, etc.) was created and entered first was introduced with much fanfare by the rolling dice in front of the public, just before the curtain rose.
Mr. Cunningham also led the most advanced technology in dance, a pioneer in 1960 using the camera to capture the dance multimedia collage. In 1980, he helped develop a program, originally called life, that generates the movements and combinations of steps. He began to use to create their dances, in 1991.
Their use of the camera, “said Cunningham in 1996, part of his film in Paris, I am interested because this is something that is peculiar to our time. “This line of thought led him to use almost exclusively contemporary music, and to send web versions of its studies. Starting this year, his company introduced the website” Monday with Merce “, y included interviews with Mr. Cunningham.
