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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Merce Cunningham"”.
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In Pursuit of Non-Knowledge: Perspectives on Performing with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
… years performing as a guest musician with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. I am a professional musician, a cellist. Through this practice-based research project, I set out to understand the influence of an experience that changed and liberated me as a musician. In this autoethnographic and …
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Corporeal Modernity: Shared Concepts in the Work of Jackson Pollock, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham
… mediums, Jackson Pollock, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham created works during the 1940s and 1950s that share several analogous formal characteristics, as well as a body-centered process that reminded viewers of both the corporeality of the artists and of themselves. My thesis identifies …
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Intimate Encounters; Staging Intimacy and Sensuality
… Pendleton, Pilobolus, Momix, Julie Tayrnor, and Merce Cunningham. Included in the analysis of this event are the experiences and lessons that came about during the process of directing Reflections of Red in a Mirror of desire. The result of this evaluation is the creation of an approach to …
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(Generic Pronoun) Creates: Anarchism, Authorship, Experiment
… reappropriates source texts in “62 Mesostics re Merce Cunningham” (1973), or the way Jackson Mac Low writes to and rewrites Gertrude Stein in The Stein Poems (2003). This intersection is represented differently in Denise Levertov’s call for reader responsibility in The Jacob’s Ladder (1961), or …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… textile arts, Buckminster Fuller architecture, Merce Cunningham dance and John Cage music composition. The school closed in late 1956, an event that hastened Olson’s return to his New England home environs. Additionally, the closing of Black Mountain College, located outside Asheville, North …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
… textile arts, Buckminster Fuller architecture, Merce Cunningham dance and John Cage music composition. The school closed in late 1956, an event that hastened Olson’s return to his New England home environs. Additionally, the closing of Black Mountain College, located outside Asheville, North …
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Kinesthetic Imagery and Choreographic Praxis
… practices of George Balanchine, Rudolf Laban, Merce Cunningham, and William Forsythe. The second chapter discusses the Improvisation Technologies conceived by Forsythe as a paradigmatic example of the utilization of kinesthetic images and extensive geometry for the purposes of movement creation …