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On her advice, he also shined up his technique by taking classes at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet He decided, he said later, that ballet used die dancers' legs and feet to brilliant effect, while modem dance focused more on their torsos and arm gestures, and that it might be interesting to combine them. Cage was experimenting with chance procedures in composing music, and in 1951, with Sixteen Dances for Soloist and Company of Three, Cunningham followed suit- tossing coins onto charts to determine such factors as the order of sections, tunings, and directions in space.
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Remembering Merce Cunningham (1919-2009)
In 1944, the New York Herald Tribune's dance critic Edwin Denby reviewed the first solo performance by a young man he'd admired in Martha Graham's company. Of the 24-year-old Merce Cunningham, who shared that April 5 program with his partner, composer John Cage, Denby wrote: "His build resembles that of the j...
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