Speakers: Charles Atlas and Rashaun Mitchell with Victoria Brooks (EMPAC)
This artist conversation was presented as part of New Circuits: Curating Contemporary Performance, an invitational curatorial research convening focused on pressing areas of inquiry facing the field of curating contemporary performance. New Circuits was held at the Walker Art Center September 28 and 29, 2015, and was made possible by a curatorial fellowship grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Four Events that Have Led to Large Discoveries (About Merce Cunningham)
"What was it about Cunningham that made him stand out so," asks art historian Douglas Crimp in his catalogue essay for the 2017 exhibition Merce Cunningham: Common Time. "The dance movement he made—whatever its diverse sources in ballet and modern technique, observation of people in the streets and animals in nature, chance operations, pure invention—was uniquely suited to his own body, and he was its finest exponent." Joining in a worldwide celebration of choreographer/dancer Merce Cunningham's birth—born on this day in 1919—we share Crimp's essay online for the first time as a testament to Cunningham's influence, innovation, and iconoclasm.
