Merce Cunningham died at his home in New York City on July 26, 2009, at the age of 90. He was one of the most important modern dance choreographers of the 20th century. Born near Seattle in 1919, his career spanned the postwar era: He made his first ...
Books: I particularly admired Martin Duberman's The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein. Kirstein was a difficult man and his tormented psychological and sexual life has often obscured his public image; Duberman rights the balance and gives full due to Kirstein' ...
I. When Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union in 1961, he became a legend overnight. He was a great dancer; but he was also a Russian, our Russian, and the instant he threw himself into the arms of the French authorities and declared, in ...
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