Merce Cunningham : common time / edited by Fionn Meade and Joan Rothfuss ; with contributions by Bruce Altshuler, Carlos Basualdo, Juliet Bellow, Philip Bither, Victoria Brooks, John Cage, Roger Copeland, Mary L. Coyne, Douglas Crimp, Merce Cunningham, Robert Ellis Dunn, Simone Forti, Danielle Goldman, Hiroko Ikegami, Kelly Kivland, Claudia La Rocco, Fionn Meade, Aram Moshayedi, Benjamin Piekut, Joan Rothfuss, David Vaughan.
Foreword / Olga Viso -- Acknowledgments / Fionn Meade -- Merce Cunningham and Westbeth / David Vaughan -- Collaborators. John Cage -- Morris Graves -- Robert Rauschenberg -- Jasper Johns -- David Tudor -- Takehisa Kosugi -- Nam June Paik -- Robert Morris -- Bruce Nauman -- Charles Atlas -- Rei Kawakubo -- Black Mountain College -- Essays. Root of an unfocus / Fionn Meade -- A May-December romance?: time and collaboration in The seasons / Juliet Bellow -- Antic meet triptych / Claudia La Rocco -- A medium for engagement: on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Events / Hiroko Ikegami -- Color should travel: Frank Stella's Scramble / Mary L. Coyne -- Not so much a program of music as the experience of music / Benjamin Piekut -- Blossoming of the bride: on Walkaround time / Carlos Basualdo -- Between us: friendship in Channels/Inserts / Kelly Kivland -- Four events that have led to large discoveries (about Merce Cunningham) / Douglas Crimp -- Ocean / Philip Bither -- Dancing for the digital age: Cunningham's Biped / Roger Copeland -- Variations V (1965) / Merce Cunningham -- Interviews. Legacy and forwardd motion: interviews with Common time commissioned artists / Philip Bither -- An interview with Beth Gill / Danielle Goldman -- An interview with Maria Hassabi / Aram Moshayedi -- An interview with Charles Atlas, Rashaun Mitchell, and Silas Riener / Victoria Brooks -- Chronology. A labyrinth with no exits: a chronology of Merce Cunningham and his collaborators / Mary L. Coyne -- Artists texts. Notation (1968) / Merce Cunningham -- Space, time and dance (1952) / Merce Cunningham -- [The new school] (Early 1960s) / John Cage -- The Cage class (1991) / Bruce Altshuler -- 2 pages, 122 words on music and dance (1957) / John Cage -- A view of 9 evenings: theatre & engineering (1967) / Simone Forti -- Judson days (1962) / Robert Ellis Dunn -- Cunningham and his dancers--conversation with Carolyn Brown, Douglas Dunn, Viola Farber, Steve Paxton, Marianne Preger-Simon, Valda Setterfield, and Gus Solomons Jr (1987) / David Vaughan (moderator) -- Four events that have led to large discoveries (1994) / Merce Cunningham -- Portfolios. Costumes from the Walker Art Center MCDC Collection -- Choreography in focus / Fionn Meade -- Reference. Appendix I. Merce Cunningham choreography -- Appendix II. Dances for camera -- Appendix III. Dancers -- Appendix IV. Composers -- Appendix V. Visual artists and designers.
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