“Merce Cunningham: Common Time,” an eight-gallery collection of stage sets, costumes, music, film and a series of live performances at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, continues through July 30. The exhibition highlights the prolific postmodern choreographer’s many collaborations with artists such as John Cage, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Morris. Robert Rauschenberg’s Trophy […]
Win It! Trisha Brown By Susan Rosenberg Wesleyan University Press; 407 pages; $31.00 Undeniably one of the most important artists of our time, Trisha Brown’s artistic principles, spirit and prolific body of work are captured within the pages of this book. Art historian Susan Rosenberg draws from Brown’s archives, including interviews with colleagues to track […]
Dance history is inundated with risk-takers, but these three legends took it to a whole other level, pushing the boundaries of what was possible. For today’s #ThrowbackThursday, take a moment to remember these three iconic figures. Vaslav Nijinsky: 1890–1950 Russian ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky helped usher in a new era of ballet. He […]