Merce Cunningham at 75. (why modern dance choreographer's works can no longer sustain their avant-music or their maker's vision) (Column)
From: Dance Magazine
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Date: 5/1/1994
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Author: Barnes, Clive
Where do rebels go in wintertime? How terrible can any enfant be when he's the oldest kid on the block?
Tough questions, but they do not seem to bother that hickory-skinned, eternal leprechaun Merce Cunningham, who achieved on April 16 the unlikely milestone birthday of threescore and ten plus five. Merce at seventy-five? Not since Mickey Mouse touched seventy have we had such an unexpected birthday. Yet Cunningham continues along what now seems his own preordained path of modern ...
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