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      Creative Elements

      Merce Cunningham

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      Merce Cunningham book

      Creative Elements
      Edited ByDavid Vaughan
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1997
      eBook Published 30 September 2013
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315077857
      Pages 118
      eBook ISBN 9781315077857
      Subjects Arts
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      Vaughan, D. (Ed.). (1997). Merce Cunningham: Creative Elements (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315077857

      ABSTRACT

      Merce Cunningham reached the age of 75 in 1994, an age at which many creative artists are content to rest on their laurels, or at least to leave behind whatever controversies they may have caused during their careers. No so Cunningham. In the first place, his 70s have been a time of intense creativity in which he has choreographed as many as four new works a year. Cunningham is a strongly committed as ever to the discovery of new ways of moving and of making movement, refusing to be hampered by the physical limitations that have come with age. Since 1991 every new work has been made at least in part with the use of the computer program Life Forms, which enables him to devise choreographic phrases that he himself would be unable to perform - and which challenge and develop the virtuosity of the young dancers in his company.
      The essays collected in this special issue of Choreography and Dance were written over the last few years and discuss various aspects of the work of Cunningham as seen both from the outside and the inside.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |1 pages

      Introduction

      chapter |13 pages

      Cunningham's Recent Work: Does It Tell a Story?

      chapter |12 pages

      Merce Cunningham and Meaning: The Zen Connection

      chapter |15 pages

      Visual Artists Design for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, 1967-1970

      chapter |5 pages

      The Roles of David Tudor in the Early Repertory of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company

      chapter |8 pages

      Electronic Music for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company

      chapter |20 pages

      Merce Cunningham and John Cage: Choreographic Cross-Currents

      chapter |20 pages

      Merce Cunningham: Making Dances with the Computer

      chapter |6 pages

      Dance on Film: Notes on the Making of "CRWDSPCR"

      chapter |2 pages

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