The Trisha Brown Dance Company is presenting a stellar double bill of Rauschenberg-designed works by Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown.

A decade later, “Set and Reset” is presented once more at the Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM’s largest stage, which seats over 2,000.

Installation view of Merce Cunningham: For Camera on the High Line (image by the author for Hyperallergic) In Locale (1980), a thirty-minute film collaboration between Charles Atlas and the Merce ...

This month, as part of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, a three-week festival taking place across New York, Set and Reset returns to BAM to satisfy a new generation’s curiosity. It joins a ...

Dance, by its very nature, is the most ephemeral of all arts. How can it be saved for the enlightenment or pleasure of future generations of both dancers and audiences? In dance, there is no official ...

Merce Cunningham was hip before his time. The choreographer’s spectacular collaborations with off-the-mainstream-grid musicians and artists such as John Cage, Bruce Nauman, and Sonic Youth, broke all ...

Merce Cunningham (1973) / Don McDonagh -- Twenty years of Merce Cunningham's dance (1982) / Richard Kostelanetz -- Grace and clarity (1944) / John Cage -- Early reviews -- Space, time and dance (1952) ...