This choreographer often worked with the video artist Charles Atlas, and was the subject of Atlas's documentary A Lifetime of Dance.
This choreographer often worked with the video artist Charles Atlas, and was the subject of Atlas's documentary A Lifetime of Dance. Late in life, this choreographer premiered BIPED, and danced with Mikhail Baryshnikov in Occasion Piece. This choreographer's namesake technique features an upright posture, a flexible spine, and isolated movements of the limbs. Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp trained with this choreographer's dance company, whose official artistic advisors have included Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. This choreographer joined the Martha Graham dance company in 1939, and created hundreds of site-specific dance collages called Events. Known for creating dances apart from music or sets, he used the I Ching to introduce chance into his choreography. For 10 points, name this American choreographer, a pioneer of modern dance whose dances were frequently set to the music of his life partner, John Cage.
This choreographer often worked with the video artist Charles Atlas, and was the subject of Atlas's documentary A Lifetime of Dance.
Merce Cunningham