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NOV 2010

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Dance

Building a Body of Work: Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham

by Mary Lisa Burns

Dance

How did Merce Cunningham collaborate with artists? By now it’s the stuff of dance history legend: the composer might be told the length of the dance; the visual artist the number of dancers, perhaps, or that nothing could be hung from above.

A Full Moon to Mark the End: PINA BAUSCH

by Patricia Milder

Dance

Lush and lovely, with an expensive, over-the-top interactive set and all the long hair, high heels, and ill-fitting, floor-length gowns a person can take, Vollmond is everything we’ve come to expect from the late Pina Bausch.

 

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