Merce Cunningham

Choreographers such as Merce Cunningham and William Forsythe have adapted existing work for the space, and participatory art has even become something of a signature – Carsten Höller's slides were a hit with the public in 2006; and during 2009's Long Weekend festival, the performance artist Paola Pivi assembled 1,000 people and goaded them into screaming in unison.

Michael Clark steps it up at Tate Modern 2010

Dance history tells us there were Merce Cunningham dances before there was a Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Will Cunningham's Works Survive? Robert Greskovic 2012

But this new season also includes a true rarity: Merce Cunningham's "Duets"—the only work in the ABT repertory created by the experimental choreographer, who passed away in 2009.

Modern Times at City Center Pia Catton 2011

Completing the programme is RainForest, Merce Cunningham's marvellous, evocative 1968 classic, with designs by Andy Warhol.

This week's new theatre and dance 2011

His mother, Evelyne Meynard, is a harbinger of eclectic tastes who once trained as a dancer in Merce Cunningham's studio and who works now, in part, on an architectural line of "minimalist" mirrors.

A Curriculum All His Own Andy Battaglia 2011

Rauschenberg was very close to Merce Cunningham, and the dancers from the 1964 Venice Biennale were going there, so he went to India after he won the Grand Prize at Venice.

Marina Cashdan: Lynda Benglis, Shape Shifter and Influencer Marina Cashdan 2011

One of Merce Cunningham's most powerful Event performances was presented there, set against the uncanny, glowing backdrop of Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project installation.

This week's new dance 2011

Juxtaposing paintings, sculptures and installations with film and video of choreography, the Centre Pompidou's "Dancing through Life" creates a dialogue about human form and movement through the works of Merce Cunningham, Theo van Doesburg, Wassily Kandinsky, Eadweard Muybridge, Bruce Nauman, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Andy Warhol and others.

What's On Around Europe 2011

Rauschenberg was very close to Merce Cunningham, and the dancers from the 1964 Venice Biennale were going there, so he went to India after he won the Grand Prize at Venice.

Marina Cashdan: Lynda Benglis, Shape Shifter and Influencer Marina Cashdan 2011

The photographer Robert Frank who is a friend; the composer John Cage and the choreographer Merce Cunningham , both of whom I knew reasonably well; Pablo Picasso for his astonishing ability to reinvent his vision over and over again.

A Good Eye for Investing, Photos 2011