BAM OPERA HOUSE OCTOBER 14-19, 1997
Calling the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival "Cunningham, Merce: Forward & Reverse" made a kind of sense. The engagement included three dances new to New York City and one altogether new, as well as extended bits from no fewer than nine pieces in his retired repertory.
These last ranged from something called The Run (1952) to Points in Space (1986), and included a cryptic segment ...