Mesurer Merce Cunningham by Clarisse Bardiot

“…From data concerning the premieres of the 183 choreographies he created throughout his career, using various quantitative analysis tools and datavisualizations, can we identify typical features, characteristics specific to the history and life of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as well as the aesthetics of Merce Cunningham?…”
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Merce Cunningham’s Event #32. A Modularized Contribution to the History of Dance in Museums by Lisa Beisswanger

“…Offering a multilevel (or: modularized) analysis of Merce Cunningham’s Event #32 at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in 1972, the article sheds light on questions such as: What led to the approximation of dance and museums in the 1970s? …”
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Archiviare il futuro. I lasciti di Pina Bausch e Merce Cunningham by Susanne Franco

“…A comparative analysis of the structure of archives and the modes of transmission created by the heirs who managed the tangible and intangible heritage of Pina Bauch and Merce Cunningham, both deceased in 2009, is the starting point for an inquiry into the themes of the function of memory, the processes of incorporation and their impact on the writing of (dance) history.…”
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Cunninghamovy série by Gil, José

Subjects:

EL LENGUAJE DIGITAL FUERA DE LA PANTALLA: LA POTENCIA POLÍTICA DE EJECUCIONES DE CÓDIGO EN DEMEROL DE MARIO BELLATIN Y LOOPS DE MERCE CUNNINGHAM by Renee Carmichael

“…El trabajo ejecuta la obra de Rancière junto a Demerol por Mario Bellatin y la danza tecnológica Loops por Merce Cunningham. La yuxtaposición de las dos obras leídas a través del lenguaje digital muestra cómo la poética de lo digital como fuerza política genera eventos sensibles entre lo digital y lo no digital. …”
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A dança como crítica à representação by Izis Dellatre Bonfim Tomass

“…A produção filosófica de Deleuze se dedicou quase que inteiramente em um ataque à representação, e, como aqui analisaremos, também é perceptível esse movimento na produção artística de Merce Cunningham.…”
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Zrod intermedií v díle Roberta Rauschenberga by Jozef Cseres

“…For a long time the Rauschenberg's installations and stage works were overshadowed by the works of his older fellows and collaborators John Cage and Merce Cunningham in spite of important fact that it was Rauschenberg who inspired some of their radical works and brought new impulses into their collaboration. …”
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Variations V: "Escaping Stagnation" Through Movement of Signification by Elizabeth Hoover

“…Variations V, a collaborative event by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and composer John Cage, premiered on July 23,1965 at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts as part of the New York Philharmonic's French-American Festival. …”
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Ethics, Staged by Carrie Noland

“…This article stages a dialogue between Giorgio Agamben’s theory of gesture and the 2016 reconstruction of Merce Cunningham’s 1964 choreography, Winterbranch. This juxtaposition encourages a comparison between Agamben's and Cunningham's respective approaches to the semiotics of dance, the way that dance can generate meaning but also evade meaning in a way that Agamben deems "proper" to the "ethical sphere." …”
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Análise musical de Six Melodies (1950), de John Cage: contexto e procedimentos composicionais by Ana Leticia Crozetta Zomer, Guilherme Antonio Sauerbronn de Barros

“…Dessa forma, procuramos revelar detalhes a respeito da estética de Cage durante seus primeiros anos como compositor e da influência que seu companheiro, Merce Cunningham, exerceu sobre as obras deste período. …”
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La danse étatsunienne du début du XXème siècle aux années 1980 : histoire d’une dichotomie entre mouvement et geste by Claudie Servian

“…For modern dancers, dance is human thought and emotions performed by the human body for human purposes. Merce Cunningham claims that the purpose of his dances is movement for movement. …”
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21M.670 / SP.472 / WGS.472 Traditions in American Concert Dance: Gender and Autobiography, Spring 2003 by DeFrantz, Thomas

“…We will explore the artistic lives of such American dance artists as Katherine Dunham, and Alvin Ailey along with Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, George Balanchine, and Merce Cunningham as American dance innovators. Of particular importance to our investigation will be the construction of gender and autobiography which lie at the heart of concert dance practice, and the ways in which these qualities have been choreographed by American artists.…”
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John Cage y su influencia en la obra del video artista Nam June Paik by Íñigo Sarriugarte Gómez

“…Algunas de sus obras relacionadas con la filosofía de Cage han sido “Hommage à John Cage” en 1959; “Estudio para pianoforte” de 1960; y “Global Grove” de 1973, donde Paik trabaja a modo de collage las imágenes de sus colaboradores vanguardistas John Cage, Allen Ginsberg y Merce Cunningham.…”
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