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Article: How we met: Merce Cunningham and M C Richards
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 21, 1994
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Merce Cunningham, 75, is America's premier contemporary dance
choreographer. He danced in Martha Graham's company, then started
his own, in 1953; with the composer John Cage, he created a new
form of modern dance. He and his company are at the Edinburgh
Festival (27-28 August).
MC Richards is a potter, painter, writer, poet and teacher. Born
in Oregon in 1916, she is best known as author of the 1964 minor
classic Centering: Poetry, Pottery and the Person. She now divides
her time between California, where she teaches, and a
self-sustaining community in Pennsylvania.
MERCE CUNNINGHAM: The first time I saw MC was in the summer of
`47, at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. John Cage and ...