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Don’t Look Back (unless it’s worth it)
By now, I’m bored with the best of the year lists, and ten times more so with the best of the decade. (Do we really need to revisit the Bush years?) What did catch my eye this week were the memorial essays cropping up about the men and women who truly changed the cultural landscape.
Like Merce Cunningham, who lived as fully for 90 years as we could only dream. During my dance phase living in New York and San Francisco, I took daily Cunningham technique classes and even tried my hand at creating a piece using the I Ching, as he famously did. (My results were less than notable.) I was accustomed to thinking of Cunningham as a master teacher and brilliant choreographer, but I didn’t realize until reading his obituaries that he’s considered among critics as one of the greatest dancers of the 20th century.
Merce Cunningham in Antic Meet, 1958. Photo by Richard Rutledge
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