This month the Merce Cunningham Dance Company performs its first New York City season in the State Theater, as part of Lincoln Center Festival 99--with Baryshnikov, too.
When Jasper Johns created his famous numbers painting for the lobby of the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center more than thirty-five years ago, he asked his good friend Merce Cunningham to leave a footprint on it. "I think you should have your foot in the door of the State Theater," Johns told him. Beginning ...