Merce Cunningham minEvent 2010 – 2011

Cornish College of the Arts celebrates creative giant of the 20th century and Cornish Alumnus Merce Cunningham.

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About the Merce Cunningham minEvent 2010 – 2011

Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle Theater Group, Donald Byrd/Spectrum Dance Theater, Seattle Art Museum, On the Boards and Pacific Northwest Ballet welcome the Merce Cunningham Dance Company Legacy Tour to Seattle, October 27 through 29. Learn more about the legacy of Merce Cunningham through this collection of resources. Purchase tickets online.

In his final years (Cunningham) became almost routinely hailed as the world’s greatest choreographer. For many, he had simply been the greatest living artist since Samuel Beckett . . . He was American modern dance's equivalent of Nijinsky.
— Alistair Macaulay, The New York Times

Last year Cornish College of the Arts celebrated one of the creative giants of the Twentieth Century, Cornish alumnus Merce Cunningham (1919 – 2009). The Merce Cunningham minEvent Project spanned the 2010 – 2011 academic year and included community events and campus-wide collaborations: performances, a multidisciplinary art exhibition, master classes, lecture-demonstrations, panel discussions, open rehearsals, workshops for youth choreographers, and community outreach activities in partnership with local public schools and cultural institutions. The minEvent Project commemorated Cunningham’s artistic legacy, honoring his creative partnership with composer John Cage, and their association with Cornish and the Northwest.

At the center of this celebration, Cornish Dance Theater stages a Cunningham minEvent: a dance presenting an uninterrupted sequence of excerpts from Cunningham masterworks. The Cornish minEvent includes excerpts from Cunningham’s Roaratorio (1983), Fabrications (1987), and Enter (1993). This fall, Cornish Dance Theater performs the Cunningham minEvent to music by John Cage, performed live by the Cornish Music Department’s Indeterminacy Ensemble directed by Music faculty Jarrad Powell. In the Spring, site-specific versions of the Cunningham minEvent appear around Seattle including the historic Paramount Theater, Seattle Art Museum and ACT: A Contemporary Theatre.

Upcoming Events

Merce Cunningham Dance Company:
The Legacy Tour // October 27 & 29
Post Performance Discussions // October 27 & 29
Master Classes // October 4 – 28
Discussion & minEvent // October 2
Open Rehearsal // October 1

Past Events

Community Class with Patricia Lent at Velocity // April 8
Northwest Film Forum Screening:
Merce In Three Parts // March 9
Interface Panel: Klein, Cage & Cunningham // March 4
Holley Farmer Residency // February 28 – March 4
Historic Paramount Theater Tour // February 5
Site-specific minEvent Performances // February 4 — April 21
Cornish Dance Theater Fall 2010 Concert // November 19 – 20
SAM Screening: Tacita Dean, Craneway Event// November 5
Cunningham minEvent Gallery Performances // October 8
Open Rehearsal of minEvent // October 1
Dancing for Merce Cunningham // September 20
Dancing for Merce Cunningham // September 20
Lunchtime Conversation with Trimpin // September 15
Cunningham in the Northwest // September 8 – October 22

* All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

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