Article: Deep waters

Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Damrosch Park July 30 through August 4

In memoriam: Chris Komar

Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre Damrosch Park July 22 through 27

Many facts are known about Ocean. Merce Cunningham and John Cage got the idea when Joseph Campbell told them he was sure James Joyce's next work would have been about water. Ocean has 19 sections because Ulysses had 18 and Finnegans Wake 17. One hundred twenty-eight phrases of movement equal 64 hexagrams of the I Ching doubled. Cunningham worked out about one-third of the choreography on the computer, using chance procedures. One hundred twelve musicians banked behind the audiences on five of the six bleachers surrounding the ...

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