David Vaughan's Merce Cunningham: Creative Elements: 4 (Choreography and PDF

By David Vaughan

ISBN-10: 3718658348

ISBN-13: 9783718658343

Merce Cunningham reached the age of seventy five in 1994, an age at which many artistic artists are content material to relaxation on their laurels, or no less than to depart at the back of no matter what controversies they might have brought on in the course of their careers. No so Cunningham. within the first position, his 70s were a time of extreme creativity within which he has choreographed as many as 4 new works a yr. Cunningham is a strongly devoted as ever to the invention of latest methods of relocating and of creating flow, refusing to be hampered through the actual obstacles that experience include age. considering that 1991 each new paintings has been made a minimum of partially with using the pc application lifestyles kinds, which permits him to plot choreographic words that he himself will be not able to accomplish - and which problem and enhance the virtuosity of the younger dancers in his company.
The essays accumulated during this particular factor of Choreography and Dance have been written over the past few years and speak about quite a few facets of the paintings of Cunningham as visible either from the skin and the inside.

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