Merce Cunningham--The Coast Zone

Excerpt from the film The Collaborators: Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg. For more information, visit www.merce.org

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[FreedomINCchronicles]

Merce cunningham is an amazing choreographer. He changed a lot about modern dance. He rebelled agnaist martha graham who's dance was all about meaning and the pain. But Merce was all about the human body, the appreciation for the human body which is simply amazing. I love his technique. Its a bloody hard technique to study.

[Elizabeth E]

Cunningham's work can seem strange no doubt. He very much believed in creating dance for dance's sake. There is rarely a story line, but it is more an appreciation of the human body and an experiment in the shapes and movement the body could make. There is generally no emotional climax in his choreography. You must appreciate the technique and the beauty of the human body to fully appreciate Cunningham.

[emily hatfield]

Bloody hard, in deed!! But an awesome challenge and true test of the physical capabilities of the body,

[gigs1890]

ROFL at 1:30 LOOK AT HIM GO!

[nna341]

The technique is so beatiful and interesting - architectural form embodied. I have been in the same room as Merce and done the technique classes in his NewYork studio and it feels great on the body. RIP Merce - you continue to inspire me.

[bionicgiblets33]

I might be losing my mind but I swear, at some points if you turn the volume up you can hear the same strange robotic/industrial music, layered with other noises, that is in Alwin Nikolais' "Tensile Involvement".

[HannahIsKindaCool]

Cunningham incorporated into his choreography not only the appreciation of the human body, but the appreciation of life. The idea of "chance" was that it does not matter how a certain moment prepared and came to be that moment, but what matters is the moment itself and the beauty within it.

[mKL01Q0O]

great

[crescentsi]

The balletic elements are interesting. Attractive, "staccatto flow".

[nothingUneed2no]

Cunningham is still controversial, even in the youtube era!