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CUNNINGHAM – Review by Brandy McDonnell

January 28, 2020February 2, 2020 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments alla kovgan, cunningham, dance, documentaries, merce cunningham

The film focuses on the first 30 years of Cunningham’s career – he continued to create until his death in 2009 at the age of 90 – touching on his collaborations with pioneering composer John Cage as well as visual artists Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, recalling the founding of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and its early shoestring tours in a VW microbus and recounting the troupe’s 1964 world tour, during which the dancers dodged tomatoes and eggs in Paris but were triumphantly received London.

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CUNNINGHAM – Review by Martha K Baker

January 9, 2020January 11, 2020 Martha K. Baker 0 Comments alla kovgan, cunningham, dance films, documentaries, merce cunningham

Merce Cunningham changed the face — and the feet and the feats — of dance. People who know next to nothing about dance have probably heard of him, but Alla Kovgan’s documentary will fill in the blanks of this choreographic force. The Russian director interfaces vintage film with recreated dances in inventive spaces.