9/4/2018 American Master Residency (Workshop/Performance) National Gallery of Australia 

● “The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), with support from the Embassy of the United 
States of America, is hosting an international contemporary dance residency in 
association with American Masters 1940–1980. Here at the NGA, former Merce 
Cunningham Company dancer and current stager, Jamie Scott, will work with three 
Australian-based dancers to remount excerpts from several Merce Cunningham dances 
including Landrover (1972) and TV Rerun (1972).” 
(​https://nga.gov.au/americanmasters/danceresidency/default.cfm​) 
 
9/7/2018 Screenings of Cunningham Films in V Encontre Internacional de Film de Danza 
● Since 1943, the choreographer Merce Cunningham and John Cage, musician and 
composer, will collaborate for more than two decades within the Merce Cunningham Co. 
The artistic and emotional influence that both exerted on each other and vice versa, 
allowed them to venture into the exploration of the possibilities of movement that the 
daily use of the human body brought. These were inscribed in multi-media scenic 
proposals, where chance or spatial and temporal indeterminacy were part of the 
presentation of their dance pieces and audiovisual scenographies. In this VII edition of 
the RIURAU FILM FESTIVAL we wanted to join the world commemoration of the 
centenary of the birth of Merce Cunningham since its foundation in New York. Hence, 
this publication and that of the next edition will focus on contents on the representation of 
the body in movement in the work of art. A tribute to the gure of Merce Cunningham for 
being one of the main references for all the evolution of contemporary art from the 
mid-20th century to the present. An artist that unites the knowledge of the scenic space 
and the choreography carried to its ultimate consequences with the use of the most 
current technologies. 
(​https://riuraufilmfestival.com/storage/app/media/uploaded-files/V%20Ponencia%20LGT
B%202018.pdf​) 
 
9/27/2018 Film Screening and Conversation with Cunningham Collaborator Charles Atlas 
● “Charles Atlas has been one of the creative forces behind the new field of dance which is 
choreographed for the camera. I am so excited that he will be sharing his insights, based 
on his own work as well as on collaborations with Merce Cunningham and others, with 
our students and the community,” said NWSA Dean of Dance Mary Lisa Burns. “The 
year of the Cunningham Centennial will be an exciting one, bringing more of Merce’s 
work and ideas here to Miami, with support from the Merce Cunningham Trust.”​ ​Charles 
Atlas pioneered (with Merce Cunningham and others) creation of dances made for the 
camera. He worked with Cunningham from 1975-1981 as a collaborator and as the 
Cunningham Company’s filmmaker-in-residence from 1978-1983. He has created 
award-winning work independently and also collaborated with other artists such as 
 Marina Abramovic, Michael Clark, Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Riener. Charles Atlas is the 
recipient of numerous awards, including three Bessie Awards: for Sustained 
Achievement in Video, for the “Martha” Tapes, and for costumes for the Michael Clark 
Dance Company. 
(​http://nwsa.mdc.edu/nwsa-college-about/latest-nwsa-college-news/907-new-world-scho
ol-of-the-arts-celebrates-merce-cunningham-centennial-with-“dance-on-film-series”.html
) 
 
9/27/2018 If the Dancer Dances at Raindance Film Festival (Merce in Miami) 
● “If The Dancer Dances not only shows the impact Cunningham has on the contemporary 
art but also why it’s extremely important to keep his legacy and ground-breaking work 
alive. With this movie, the filmmaker didn’t only want to reach the dance lovers or 
Cunningham connoisseurs, but most importantly everyone. It doesn’t matter whether 
you’re into dance or not, you will love this documentary. The dancers and the human 
aspect are placed as central as Cunningham in the film, and because of the emotions, 
struggles and triumphs, you will feel incredibly connected with the Company. You’re 
going to want to sit through the entire movie to find out whether they will succeed in the 
dance they’ve work so hard for.” 
(​https://justcelebritymag.com/2018/10/04/raindance-film-festival-2018-if-the-dancer-dan
ces-moving-film-about-a-choreography-legend-who-passed-away-too-early/​) 
 
10/1/2018 Trevor leads DanceForms workshop with Art Students 
● In 1991 at the age of 72, Merce Cunningham incorporated the use of a software program 
called LifeForms in his creative process making dance, developing the software now 
known as DanceForms. Using this tool and others which Cunningham pioneered, Trevor 
Carlson, member of the Merce Cunnigham Trust and assistant of the 
choreographer–conducted workshops with students from arts schools in Catalunya and 
over six days culminated a series of short Dance Films made by the young artists whose 
studies are focused in Performing Arts, Dance, Music, and Film-making. Specifically, “4 
Events” shows the collaboration of different prominent institutions in the field of 
performing and recording arts with professionals and students from Institute of the Arts 
Barcelona, Plató del Cinema, Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, and Taller de 
Músics. This Official Merce Cunningham Centennial workshop is supervised and 
coordinated by Choreoscope–Barcelona International Dance Film Festival, and Thorus 
Arts. 
(​https://thetheatretimes.com/from-lifeforms-to-danceforms-4-events-in-barcelona-for-mer
ce-cunningham-centennial/​) 
 
 
10/9/2018 Choreoscope Festival Cunningham/Cage Film Screenings 
● The creative life of the genius of contemporary American dance, Merce Cunningham. 
From his first work in 1942, his choreography shocked, enchanted and annoyed. This 
portrait is full of rarely seen company archive images. The first members of the company, 
Carolyn Brown and Remy Charlip , talk about the times when driving a thousand miles to 
give a presentation and return to New York was the daily bread. Cunningham performs 
an improvisation especially for this film and is seen rehearsing with Mikhail Baryshnikov 
. The film also includes extracts from Pond Way and BIPED . 
(​https://www.choreoscope.com/especial18/​) 
 
10/11/2018​ ​Master Class, Workshops, Open Rehearsal at CalArts 
● As part of the Centennial Celebration, former Cunningham company member Holley 
Farmer was commissioned to stage excerpts of Cunningham’s 1969 work Canfield on ten 
of the CalArts dance students. I had the great honor of being a member of the original 
cast of Canfield along with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, Meg Harper, Susanna 
Hayman-Chaffey, Sandra Neels, Chase Robinson, Valda Setterfield, and Mel Wong. So, 
for me, this was a trigger of many fond memories. 
According to the Merce Cunningham Trust, “The dance’s title refers to a game of 
solitaire that Cunningham played while on vacation. Using chance process to determine 
the sequence of movements, Cunningham assigned a word indicating a particular motion 
to each card in the deck, with red and black suits denoting fast and slow movements 
respectively. Pauline Oliveros composed the score, and Robert Morris designed the set, 
which featured a gray vertical beam, moving back and forth across the front of the stage. 
A light at the back of the beam shone onto the backcloth, intensifying the illumination 
when a dancer moved past.” 
Cunningham also incorporated his now famous chance procedures when presenting 
Canfield to audiences. The dance was composed of 13 sections with an equal number of 
transitions to connect them. On the day of each performance, Cunningham would, by 
chance, arrange these 13 sections into a different order. The dancers, therefore, had to 
not only remember which section included what movement, but also memorize the order 
they appeared in. To assist them, the order was posted on either side of the back-stage 
area. In full disclosure, however, during my tenure with the company we often wrote the 
dance’s order on the inside of our forearms. We did so because many times we were 
onstage when a section ended and could not make use of the postings. Working with 
Cunningham was challenging both physically and mentally. He often rearranged the 
order of his works and so if one went to several performances of a specific dance, it 
would probably be different each time. 
(​https://www.ladancechronicle.com/calarts-presents-winter-dance-works-by-merce-cunni
ngham-trisha-brown-jawole-willa-jo-zollar-rennie-harris-and-jiri-kylian/​) 
 
 
10/20/2018 EDAC Master Classes 
● Patricia Lent danced for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1984-1993), and 
White Oak Dance Project (1994-1996). She then earned a master’s degree from Bank 
Street College of Education, and taught second and third grade at P.S. 234 in Lower 
Manhattan (1998-2007). In 2009, Lent was named a trustee of the Merce Cunningham 
Trust, and currently serves as the Trust’s Director of Licensing. Since joining the Trust, 
she has initiated and supervised more than one hundred staging projects for professional 
companies, museums, conservatories, and schools. 
Cunningham Technique® was developed by Merce Cunningham to train dancers for his 
company. The technique emphasizes clarity of form, coordination of torso and legwork, 
rhythmic accuracy, spatial awareness and virtuosity. A Cunningham Technique class is a 
rigorous 90-minute class that includes a thorough 45-minute warm-up followed by a 
series of diverse movement phrases. Phrases from Merce Cunningham’s choreography 
are often included in the class. Where: EDAC LYON 27 Quai Saint-Antoine 69002 
Lyon, France. 
(​https://dancingopportunities.com/merce-cunningham-technique-workshop/​) 
 
10/22/2018 Screening/Discussion with dancers of RainForest and demonstration of dancing with 
clouds; Master class for dancers + Master class with students open to the public 
● In conjunction with the Contact Warhol: Photography without End exhibition, join us for 
an evening exploring the rich collaboration between the artists Andy Warhol and Merce 
Cunningham. A screening of the film of Cunningham's dance piece RainForest(1968), 
which incorporated Warhol's "Silver Clouds," helium-inflated mylar balloons that work 
as reflective mirrors and climate barometers on stage, will be followed by a performance 
demonstration by former Merce Cunningham Dance Company member Silas Riener. A 
panel organized and led by Professor Peggy Phelan, the Denning Family Director of the 
Stanford Arts Institute and "Contact Warhol" exhibition co-curator, will follow. 
(​https://museum.stanford.edu/programs/andy-warhol-and-merce-cunningham-returning-r
ainforest​) 
 
10/26/2018 Professional development workshops with Miami Dade County Public School 
Teachers 
● PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAYS FOR DANCE COMMUNITY 
A lively and engaging professional development day for MDCPS dance teachers, which 
will include a rich assortment of workshops and classes with information to bring back to 
the classroom, led by representatives from the Merce Cunningham Trust, Ballet 
Hispanico, and others. 
 (​http://nwsa.mdc.edu/event-calendar-at-nwsa-mdc-edu/eventdetail/3515/-/new-world-sch
ool-of-the-arts-adrienne-arsht-center-education-and-community-engagement.html​) 
 
10/27/2018 Torse Screening at Len Lye Centre 
● A collaboration with choreographer Merce Cunningham, Charles Atlas’ film of the 
remarkably difficult dance Torse features a score by pioneering composer Maryanne 
Amacher. Torse has been generously provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust and is 
being screened as part of the official Merce Cunningham Centennial Celebration.  
This film is screened in association with our current exhibition Sensory Agents. 
Featuring a double screen, Torse was filmed in 1977 at the University of Washington, 
Seattle and first screened publicly at the New York Public Library for the Performing 
Arts and the Lincoln Center in 1978. I Ching, The Book of Changes provided the 
inspiration for Torse, which utilized the numbers one to 64, both in its spatial plan 
(conceived as a square 8 x 8), and the movement phases (which constituted the language 
of the piece). The title of this ballet referred to the use of the torso throughout the dance. 
There were five basic back positions featured in Torse: upright, arch, twist, tilt and curve. 
The music is by Maryanne Amacher, and Mark Lancaster designed the costumes. 
(​https://govettbrewster.com/events/cinema/torse​) 
 
 
11/19/2018 2 public workshops using DanceForms 
● The Festival will join the worldwide celebration of the centennial of the American dancer 
and choreographer Merce Cunningham, organized by the foundation The Merce 
Cunningham Trust, with headquarters in New York since 2002. Dance in the City, the 
Casona de la Danza and different spaces from the capital will be stages to celebrate birth 
and life of one of the choreographers of the twentieth century that most disrupted the 
disciplinary frontiers of art, causing in the future the irruption of contagions and 
encounters between dance, music, visual arts, technology, among many others. 
(​https://www.danzaenlaciudad.gov.co/bogota-vibrara-con-el-xi-festival-danza-en-la-ciud
ad​) 
 
12/13/2018 Variations V Screening at Velocity Merce 100 Celebration 
● Velocity concludes 2018 with Merce 100: Seattle Artists Respond to Merce a week-long 
celebration of Merce Cunningham, a Washington native and one of the world’s most 
significant postmodern artists. Curated by Velocity Artistic Executive Director Tonya 
Lockyer and presented as part of the international year-long Cunningham Centennial, 
Merce 100 will feature a workshop, cocktail mixers, screenings, culminating in a 
weekend of nine Seattle artists from different generations performing, recalling, 
re-enacting, reading, teaching and transmitting the work and ideas of Cunningham – 
 arguably the most important choreographer of the 20th century. As part of Capitol Hill 
Art Walk, Velocity will be screening excerpts of Merce Cunningham’s Variations 5, a 
daring and ground-breaking multimedia piece that weaves together improvisational 
dance, sound, and film. Variations 5 is one of Cunningham’s most well-known projects 
that engaged chance and interdisciplinary collaborations in unprecedented ways. 
(​http://velocitydancecenter.org/events/merce-100/​) 
 
12/14/2018 Merce 100: Seattle Artists Respond to Merce at Velocity and Chance Procedures 
Public Workshop (12/15) with Silas Riener 
● Participants will work with dancer and choreographer Silas Riener to explore legendary 
pioneer of dance Merce Cunningham’s use of chance procedures and indeterminacy. 
Artists of all abilities and artists of all disciplines welcome – we will engage in Merce’s 
ideas through movement, but we will focus on exploring how they might be applied to 
any creative process. We will begin first with our bodies, using Cunningham’s ideas of 
exploring space, separating the movements of the legs and upper body, and moving fast 
and moving slow in improvised and set sequences. We will explore how Merce began 
dances by investigating how weight shifts can accumulate into phrases of movement. 
Then, using random numbers, dice, flipping coins and other systems, we will introduce 
chance into different stages of the creative process, yielding complex and individual 
results. Participants will create their own movements using chance and indeterminacy, 
and guided by Riener create a unique arrangement of the material. Participants will then 
come out of the workshop with a set of tools for applying chance and indeterminacy to 
their own work for further experimentation and play. 
(​http://velocitydancecenter.org/events/silas-reiner-workshop/​) 
 
1/2/2019 Festival FIVER Espacio Cunningham 
● Exhibition curated by Samuel Retortillo for FIVER - Actual 2019 The show is included 
in the commemorative activities for the celebration of the Centennial Cunningham in 
2019. The exhibition will take a tour through the life and work of Merce Cunningham 
and will contain unpublished audiovisual material in La Rioja. The exhibition will feature 
a selection of works curated by Samuel Retortillo, three curatorial programs carried out 
between the totality of his works by REDIV. There will be a space in the exhibition for 
the work called Kid Birds by the guest artist, Eric Minh Cuong Castaing (Experimental 
Award) Fiver'16) and that is inspired by the work of the honored dialogue with the 
Cunningham universe, as well as the series of interviews Mondays with Merce, a 
documentary about his life and a selection of short works. Merce Cunningham 
(Washington, 1919-New York, 2009) has been one of the most important avant-garde 
figures of the 20th century, both in the area of ​contemporary dance and in the encounter 
of diverse arts around the movement. Numerous artists have been influenced by his 
 works and his technique where body research and creative freedom are still studied today. 
Merce gave contemporary dance an autonomous and independent character with respect 
to music and new senses to the notion of space in a choreography. He was surrounded by 
great geniuses of the arts like John Cage, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Robert 
Rauschenberg and created more than 200 works. In the 1990s, Cunningham included 
technological tools in his work using a computer program called Danceforms. 
(​http://coordinacioncultural.com/evento/exposicion-espacio-cunningham/​) 
● In Spain, from January 2-5, Festival FIVER*, an international platform to support and 
popularize the dance genre in its audiovisual-cinematographic form, will join the 
Centennial with the film and video exhibition Espacio Cunningham, as well as displays 
of Mondays with Merce and Charles Atlas' documentary about Cunningham, Merce 
Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance, and a film by Eric Minh Cuong Castainginspired by 
Cunningham,at the Riojan Athenaeum (La Rioja, Spain). 
(​http://www.mdc.edu/clippings/2019/January/22.PDF​) 
 
1/7/2019 New World School Cunningham and DanceForms Workshop 
● Two evenings of dance films created for the camera by ground-breaking artist Merce 
Cunningham, with introduction and audience Q & A with Trevor Carlson, Trustee of the 
Merce Cunningham Trust, and dancers who participated in these films, Lisa Boudreau 
and Susana Hayman-Chaffey. A unique insight into these important and engaging works! 
(​http://nwsa.mdc.edu/event-calendar-at-nwsa-mdc-edu/eventdetail/3512/-/dance-on-film-
merce-cunningham.html​) 
 
1/10/2019 New World School Screening Views & Melange and Panel with Lisa Boudreau  
● Renowned dancer and Artistic Director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, 
Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) pioneered creating dances for the camera, often 
collaborating with filmmaker Charles Atlas. Their collaborations included both Melange 
and Views on Camera, among others. Cunningham created nearly 200 dances for his 
company over the course of his lifetime, collaborated with artists such as Andy Warhol, 
Robert Rauschenberg, and John Cage, and was awarded countless honors including the 
National Medal of Arts (Washington, DC), the Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur 
(France), the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale (Italy), and the Medal of Honor from 
the Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain). 
(​http://nwsa.mdc.edu/nwsa-college-about/latest-nwsa-college-news/907-new-world-scho
ol-of-the-arts-celebrates-merce-cunningham-centennial-with-“dance-on-film-series”.html
) 
 
 
1/11/2019 New World School Master Class w/Lisa Boudreau and screening of Assemblage 
w/Panel w/ Susana Hayman-Chaffey  
● Renowned dancer and Artistic Director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, 
Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) pioneered creating dances for the camera, often 
collaborating with filmmaker Charles Atlas. Their collaborations included both ​Melange 
and Views on Camera,​ among others. Cunningham created nearly 200 dances for his 
company over the course of his lifetime, collaborated with artists such as Andy Warhol, 
Robert Rauschenberg, and John Cage, and was awarded countless honors including the 
National Medal of Arts (Washington, DC), the Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur 
(France), the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale (Italy), and the Medal of Honor from 
the Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain). ​Lisa Boudreau​ was a dancer with the 
Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1994-2008. She performs in the films 
Melange​ and ​Views on Camera​ and will share her insights into the experience of 
participating in these important collaborations. ​Susana Hayman-Chaffey​ danced with 
the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1968 – 1976 and performs in the film, 
Assemblage​ (1968). She is also a writer, teacher, and traveler and former Faculty Chair 
of the Merce Cunningham Studio. 
(​http://nwsa.mdc.edu/nwsa-college-about/latest-nwsa-college-news/907-new-world-scho
ol-of-the-arts-celebrates-merce-cunningham-centennial-with-“dance-on-film-series”.html
) 
 
1/17/2019 Mondays with Merce public Screening at University of Virginia 
● To celebrate and honor the legacy of Merce Cunningham, the University of Virginia’s 
Dance Minor Program of the Department of Drama will be holding weekly screenings of 
the series Mondays with Merce, which will be free and open to the public. Our hope is to 
increase awareness of Cunningham as a dance artist and his contributions to the field, 
while also highlighting his impact on other disciplines through his various collaborations. 
(​http://arts.virginia.edu/artevents/venues/119568/1541368​) 
 
1/18/2019 If the Dancer Dances Outdoor Screening at New World Symphony 
● Please join Miami Light Project for the 6th anniversary of ScreenDance Miami 2019! 
If the Dancer Dances (2018), New York City, New York, Florida Premiere, 1h 30m 
A film by Lise Friedman and Maia Wechsler 
Written and Produced by Lise Friedman and Maia Wechsler 
Directed by Maia Wechsler 
Edited by Mary Manhardt 
If the Dancer Dances invites viewers into the intimate world of the dance studio, where three 
former members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company teach Cunningham’s 1968 
RainForest to the Stephen Petronio Company. One of this generation’s leading modern dance 
choreographers, Stephen is determined to help his dancers breathe new life into this great work. 
Timed to coincide with Cunningham’s centennial, the film tracks the dancers’ often intensely 
personal challenges, as they reveal what it takes to keep a dance alive. If the Dancer Dances is 
the first documentary on the subject of Cunningham’s work since his passing in 2009. 
(​https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screendance-miami-2019-presents-if-the-dancer-dances-at-new-w
orld-symphony-wallcast-at-soundscape-registration-53883711632#​) 
 
1/25/2019 NYPL Research Cohort Day of Presentations 
● Join us as the current class of the Dance Research Fellowship at the Jerome Robbins 
Dance Division present their final projects, looking at the archival material of Merce 
Cunningham in new and unexpected ways. This daylong symposium features the 
culmination of work undertaken during a six month fellowship cycle which began in July 
2018. 
(​https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dance-research-fellowship-symposium-merce-cunningha
m-tickets-49099887084#​) 
 
2/1/2019 New World School Open Rehearsal of MinEvent staged by Melissa Toogood 
● A preview of the Merce Cunningham MinEvent, staged by award-winning NWSA 
alumna Melissa Toogood, here at NWSA for performance on the SPRING DANCES 
performances in April. This showing will be the culmination of her two-week residency 
and will include a Q & A for the audiences with Ms. Toogood and the dancers and will 
provide insights into the work and idea of Merce Cunningham, as part of the Centennial 
celebrations in his honor. 
(​http://209.87.171.25/EventList.aspx?fromdate=1/26/2019&todate=2/1/2019&display=W
eek&type=public&eventidn=23292&view=EventDetails&information_id=89724​) 
 
 
2/16/2019 Runs the Gamut, lecture-demonstration led by Silas Riener 
● Merce Cunningham Dance Company alum Silas Riener and undergraduate dance 
students present a performance and lecture-demonstration of Cunningham’s technique 
and compositional tools of chance procedure and indeterminacy. Led by Riener, this new 
generation of dancers will showcase the legendary choreographer’s groundbreaking 
contributions to the field, and reveal the possibilities that emerge through new 
experiments. This event culminates a series of workshops led by Riener for the student 
participants, who are from The Ailey School, Harvard University, The Juilliard School, 
and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. 
(​https://bacnyc.org/performances/performance/runs-the-gamut-exploring-the-creative-leg
acy-of-merce-cunningham​) 
 
2/19/2019 Very Very Fast, and Very Very Slow – Talk by Meg Eginton with footage from 
Exchange 
● Very Very Fast or Very Very Slow: Dancing from the Inside Out 
February 19, 2019 
19th Century Club, Iowa City, IA 52245 
Meg Eginton presents selections from her in-progress memoir essay about dancing and living in 
NYC in the late 1970s -1990s. The memoir is primarily about the inner life of a dancer, and how 
it grows. She will talk about her time with Merce, and project video of Exchange and other 
dances, including some rehearsal footage, and share what it felt like to be partnered by Merce 
and to rehearse with the company. Among the episodes she will share will be Merce's distinct 
and brief pieces of advice to her, stories of touring and growing up, getting lost and exploring 
new cities with Robert Kovich, and how she nearly got arrested in East Berlin on her day off. 
She will give the talk at 19th Century Club, the oldest women's organization in Iowa City, which 
presents papers of general historical and aesthetic interest to a broad audience. 
(​https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Merce-Cunningham-Trust-Announces-Spring-Program
ming-For-Global-Centennial-Celebration-20190108​) 
 
3/2/2019 Chance Procedures Workshop for Families led by Trevor Carlson 
● This workshop’s focus is about engaging one of Merce Cunningham’s choreographic 
tools in a playful way for families. Participants of all ages will creatively interact using 
Chance Procedures through the use of dice as if playing a game together. Acting as both 
choreographers and dancers, the individuals will share the unique viewpoint of seeing 
this process as both creator and performer. Together, and using the tools Cunningham 
used, participants will create their own dance together. Children aged 6 years and over, 
all children must be accompanied by their parent/s or carer/s. 
(​https://waynemcgregor.com/learning/merce-cunningham-centennial-residency-at-studio-
wayne-mcgregor​) 
 
3/2/2019 Wayne McGregor Residency 
● The Merce Cunningham Trust Residency held at Studio Wayne McGregor will feature a 
comprehensive series of workshops, panels and events in February and March 2019 at 
our studios at Here East on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.At Studio Wayne McGregor, 
Merce Cunningham Trust Centennial Producer Trevor Carlson will lead a Chance 
Procedures Workshop for Families and a DanceForms Workshop for adults; former 
Cunningham dancers will lead open company classes and a professional level lab. The 
workshop series will also feature open rehearsal days throughout February and March, as 
well as talk, Preserving a Dance Legacy: The Cunningham Legacy Plan. 
(​https://waynemcgregor.com/learning/merce-cunningham-centennial-residency-at-studio-
wayne-mcgregor​) 
 
3/3/2019 92nd Street Y DEL (Teacher Development) Program 
● CUNNINGHAM AT 100: EXPERIMENTATION, INNOVATION AND 
CELEBRATION 
Jennifer Goggans (Merce Cunningham Trust), Catherine Gallant, MA and Hetty King, MA, 
MFA 
● Merce Cunningham is one of the most important choreographers of our time, with an 
unparalleled legacy distinguished by constant innovation. Explore the processes that 
inspired his singular compositions and influential collaborations. Apply the strategies, 
tools and technologies to imagine new dances and curricular applications. Use Merce’s 
creative vision and life to empower and liberate your students. 
SUN, MAR 3 & 10, 1-6 PM 
(​https://www.92y.org/92StreetY/media/DOCUMENTS/Dance/Fall18/DEL-Brochure-201
8-19.pdf​) 
 
3/7/2019 Preserving a Dance Legacy: The Cunningham Legacy Plan 
● Trevor Carlson, former Executive Director of the Cunningham Dance Foundation, will 
explore the topic of artist legacies, based on his experience of creating and implementing 
the legacy plan for the Cunningham Company. 
(​https://waynemcgregor.com/learning/merce-cunningham-centennial-residency-at-studio-
wayne-mcgregor​) 
 
3/10/2019 92nd Street Y DEL (Teacher Development) Program 
● CUNNINGHAM AT 100: EXPERIMENTATION, INNOVATION AND 
CELEBRATION 
Jennifer Goggans (Merce Cunningham Trust), Catherine Gallant, MA and Hetty King, MA, 
MFA 
● Merce Cunningham is one of the most important choreographers of our time, with an 
unparalleled legacy distinguished by constant innovation. Explore the processes that 
inspired his singular compositions and influential collaborations. Apply the strategies, 
tools and technologies to imagine new dances and curricular applications. Use Merce’s 
creative vision and life to empower and liberate your students. 
SUN, MAR 3 & 10, 1-6 PM 
(​https://www.92y.org/92StreetY/media/DOCUMENTS/Dance/Fall18/DEL-Brochure-2018-19.p
df​) 
 
3/10/2019 DanceForms Workshop led by Trevor Carlson 
● Merce Cunningham used DanceForms, a dance animation software program, as a 
choreographic tool in his last two decades as a choreographer. This DanceForms 
 Workshop is an interesting point of entry into Cunningham’s philosophy and working 
process as collaboration, technology, and a constant pursuit for the new and unknown 
were trademarks of Merce Cunningham’s vision as an artist. The DanceForms Workshop 
is appropriate for a variety of different participants, aged 18 years and over, with varying 
backgrounds and interests. Prior workshops have included professional educators, 
dancers, choreographers, actors, directors, graphic designers, musicians, composers. No 
previous dance experience required. 
(​https://waynemcgregor.com/learning/merce-cunningham-centennial-residency-at-studio-
wayne-mcgregor​) 
 
 
3/13/2019 ACDA Cunningham Panels  
● Missouri State University invites faculty and students to participate in the American 
College Dance Association's Central Region Conference, March 13-16, 2019, in 
Springfield, MO. Our conference will be an exciting celebration of dance in higher 
education with a wide variety of master classes, scholarly research presentations, 
opportunities for student and faculty exchanges in and out of the studio, adjudication and 
informal concerts, feedback sessions and a Gala Concert. Our theme, "Looking Back, 
Moving Forward," honors a number of dance artists whose centenaries fall in 2019 and 
focuses this year's conference on the legacy and dance research - practice and theoretical 
- that has developed from their work. To that end, we are excited to offer two workshops 
that will span the four days of the conference, based on the work of Merce Cunningham 
and Pearl Primus, as well as a dance/video workshop during which students will generate 
short dance films. Each participating institution may select one student for each 
workshop. You will find more information under the Concerts tab; scroll down on that 
page to read about three workshops and the guest artists who will lead them. In addition, 
we are seeking proposals for classes and research presentations from participating faculty 
members that relate to Cunningham, Primus, and dance/video work. Additionally, special 
faculty seminars and workshops have been planned. We encourage all faculty to submit 
suggestions for faculty-only classes, workshops, research presentations and/or seminars. 
(​https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=2539822​) 
 
3/20/2019 NYC DOE Professional Development Program 
● Jennifer Goggans and Dylan Crossman will teach a day-long workshop as part of a NYC 
Department of Education Professional Development Day. 
(​http://www.mdc.edu/clippings/2019/January/22.PDF​) 
 
4/2/2019 Dance and Design Workshops, University of the Arts (Kimberly Bartosik and Roderick 
Murray) 
 ● April 2-3: Merce Cunningham Trust Fellowship workshop with Roderick Murray, 
University of the Arts Dance & Design students (​https://www.daela.org/calendar​) 
 
 
4/11/2019 Master Class and Chance Procedures Physically Integrated Workshops - Mark Morris 
Dance Studios 
● In conjunction with Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event 
Co-presented by BAM, Mark Morris Dance Group, and Merce Cunningham Trust 
For dancers with and without disabilities 
Part of the official celebration of the Merce Cunningham Centennial 
Jean Freebury, a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1992 to 2003, 
leads a class devoted to Cunningham’s use of chance procedures as a choreographic tool. 
Participants get an opportunity to experiment with chance to invent and sequence their 
own original movement. Assistants will be on hand to provide modifications for 
movement as needed. 
(​https://www.bam.org/classes/2019/physically-integrated-workshop-merce-cunningham-c
hance-procedures​)  
 
4/13/2019 Just By Chance: Merce Cunningham Centennial 
 
● Winthrop University's Department of Theatre and Dance presents "Just By Chance," an 
afternoon of choreography by faculty, students, and special guests to commemorate the 
centennial of Merce Cunningham. 
(​https://allevents.in/rock%20hill/just-by-chance-merce-cunningham-centennial/20001703
9901814?ref=past-event-page​) 
 
4/20/2019 FSU MinEvent  
● This April, The Florida State University School of Dance is excited to work in 
conjunction with the Merce Cunningham Trust, the FSU College of Music, the Museum 
of Fine Arts, and the Student Life Cinema will be hosting a series of Cunningham 
Centennial Celebrations as part of a global celebration of the life and work of one of the 
greatest American dance artists, Merce Cunningham and an exploration of his impact into 
the future.  
● MinEvent, a Cage/Cunningham/Rauschenberg revisit. A sequence of excerpts from dance 
works by Merce Cunningham re-choreographed by ex-Cunningham dancer Silas Riener 
on students in the FSU School of Dance. Live music composed and performed by 
Stephen Montague with set design by Alex Julyan (UK). The work will be shown in the 
Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre during Days of Dance B at 7:30 p.m. on April 20 and 
26 and at a 2:00 p.m. matinee on April 27.  
 (​https://mofa.fsu.edu/the-cunningham-centennial/​) 
 
4/22/2019 DanceForms workshop led by Trevor Carlson 
● The DanceForms Workshop is appropriate for a variety of different participants with 
varying backgrounds and interests. Prior workshops have included professional 
educators, dancers, choreographers, actors, directors, graphic designers, musicians, 
composers, children, teenagers, adults and the list goes on. As collaboration, technology 
and a constant pursuit for the new and unknown were trademarks of Merce 
Cunningham’s vision as an artist this workshop is an interesting point of entry into his 
philosophy and working process. Cunningham used DanceForms, a dance animation 
software program, as a choreographic tool in his last two decades as a choreographer. In 
this workshop participants will explore using Cunningham’s techniques and have the 
opportunity to create their own dance with fellow participants. Acting as both 
choreographers and dancers, the participants will share the unique viewpoint of seeing 
this process as both creator and performer. Previous participants have found that these 
tools are useful in both educational and artistic exchanges. The duration of the workshop 
will be determined with the presenter. 
(​http://thorusarts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Not-a-moment-too-soon-October-201
7_EN_rec.pdf​) 
 
4/28/2019 A Lifetime of Dance and Park Armory Event Screening - Vila Flor Center 
● Monday, 22 April to Monday, 29 April | 21h30 
Not a moment too soon | Merce Cunningham’s Centennial 
In the month that commemorates Merce Cunningham’s centenary, the CCVF will 
celebrate World Dance Day with the solo performance, Not a moment too soon, 
performed by Trevor Carlson, the last director of Cunningham’s dance company. This 
will be the culmination of a week of celebrations which will include a training 
programme for dance schools and screening of films made by the choreographer in the 
final years of his life. 
(​http://www.ccvf.pt/conteudo.php?id=19&cat=4&prog=all&on=false&ano=&evento=52
01&s=​) 
 
5/2/2019 Merce Cunningham at 100: Innovations in Screen Dance, Flatpack Festival 
● Dance artist and researcher Karen Wood will present a brief history of Merce 
Cunningham, a pioneering contemporary dancer and an early innovator in splicing 
performance with projected imagery. This is then followed by a screening of three 
original films by Channel 4 Random Acts - Sadler’s Wells, with series producer Anne 
Beresford hosting a panel of screen dance creators talking about the process behind the 
films. 
 (​https://flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/merce-cunningham-at-100-innovations-in-screen-da
nce?perf_no=1565​) 
 
5/4/2019 San Francisco Dance Film Day of Merce Cunningham 
● Dance Film SF is participating in the Merce Cunningham’s centenary celebration with a 
special event and screening of two groundbreaking films that represent Cunningham’s 
Past and Present. 
The Past: Assemblage 
Assemblage, a film created by KQED’s Film Unit—Richard Moore, Phillip Greene, Bill 
Yahraus and William Winans—features the Cunningham company performing 
throughout Ghirardelli Square in 1968 with an independent score by John Cage. 
The Present: If the Dancer Dances 
In If the Dancer Dances (2018), viewers are invited into the intimate world of the dance 
studio, where three former members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company teach 
Cunningham’s 1968 RainForest to the Stephen Petronio Company. The film, made by 
filmmakers Maia Wechsler and Lise Friedman, is the first documentary on the subject of 
Cunningham’s work since his passing in 2009. 
(​https://www.sfdancefilmfest.org/merce-cunningham-at-100/assemblage/​) 
 
 
5/12/2019 Dublin Dance Festival streams A Lifetime of Dance (emailed for number of 
attendees) 
● Merce Cunningham's revolutionary take on modern dance is brilliantly explained in this 
documentary, a fitting tribute to an extraordinary artist, which places interviews with the 
master, and footage of his work, front and centre. 
(​https://www.dublindancefestival.ie/events/extended/merce-cunningham-a-lifetime-of-da
nce​) 
 
5/13/2019 Technique and Composition Workshops at New World School and U. of Florida 
● This showing is the culmination of a three-week workshop, conducted by Bessie 
Award-winning dancer/choreographer Silas Riener exploring the technique, repertory, 
and compositional ideas of Merce Cunningham, in whose company Mr. Riener 
performed. The showing will be followed by a Q &A with the audience members. This is 
presented with the support of the Merce Cunningham Trust Centennial. 
(​http://nwsa.mdc.edu/event-calendar-at-nwsa-mdc-edu/eventdetail/3677/-/merce-cunning
ham-workshop-final-showing.html​) 
 
6/2/2019 Danza, espacio y tiempo (La Figuera) 
 ● On April 16, 1919 was born in Centralia WA Merce Cunningham, renowned American 
dancer and choreographer who laid the foundations of a new style and way of 
understanding contemporary dance. He invented a technique in which research and 
creative freedom prevail, creating a school and today being studied with devotion. It gave 
a new meaning to the notion of space and time in their choreographies. He contributed his 
innovative look to art in general, making collaborations with great referents of music and 
visual arts such as John Cage, Andy Warhol or Jasper Johns. One hundred years after his 
birth, throughout this year 2019 will be held shows around the world, in recognition of 
his outstanding career, from New York to Hong Kong, through Paris, London, Rome, Los 
Angeles, between other important cities. Jesús Pobre and Denia are also host to a series 
of events in the framework of this great International Celebration. La Figuera approaches 
this initiative with the help of China Laudisio, dancer who is a member of the dance 
company of Merce Cunningham in her youth and of this Collective of women artists 
today. The exhibitions of the Figuera always revolve around a specific theme, chosen by 
the public attending their inaugurations. On this occasion "Dance, space and time" has 
been the chosen theme, with which the artists of the collective La Figuera pay homage to 
the choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham on the centenary of his birth. 
(​https://lafigueramarinaalta.com/​) 
 
6/16/2019 Field Dances Workshop for Children and Adults 
● Merce Cunningham choreographed Field Dances (1963) after watching children playing 
outside his window. The dance, subtitled Dances for Everyone, incorporates everyday 
movement such as running, walking, skipping, falling, sitting and leaning. Come learn, 
explore and experiment with us as we reconstruct this dance. The workshop is intended 
for children ages 5-9. Parent dancers welcome and encouraged but not required! Please 
plan to stay and observe if you will not be dancing with your child. 
(​https://americandancefestival.org/events/merce-cunninghams-field-dances-a-workshop-f
or-children-and-adults/​) 
 
6/16/2019 Bloomsday with Roaratorio Workshop (emailed for number of attendees) 
● June 16th is Bloomsday – the annual celebration of the life of the renowned Irish author 
James Joyce. Celebrate with us by learning jigs, reels, space games, and other material 
from Merce Cunningham’s Roaratorio (1983), a work inspired by Joyce’s Finnegan’s 
Wake and Irish folk dancing. 
(​https://americandancefestival.org/events/celebrate-bloomsday-with-merce-cunninghams-
roaratorio/​) 
 
6/21/2019 DanceForms Workshop led by Trevor Carlson at Montpellier Danse Festival 
 ● Collaborations, the constant search for novelty and technologies were a hallmark, Merce
Cunningham's vision of art. This workshop is an interesting entry point for both his
thinking and his work process. Merce Cunningham used DanceForms, a dance animation
software, as a tool for constructing her choreography in the 90s and 2000s. During this
workshop, participants will explore the use of Cunningham's techniques and will have the
opportunity to create their own dance with other participants. Both choreographers and
dancers, participants will have the unique opportunity to observe this process as both
creator and performer. Presented by Trevor Carlson , former personal assistant of Merce
Cunningham, this workshop is aimed at all, dancers or not, and whatever the level in
computer science. (​http://www.montpellierdanse.com/spectacle/danceforms​)

6/25/2019 Ashley Chen: Chance, Space & Time at Montpellier

● Starting from the fundamentals of composition enunciated by John Cage and Merce
Cunningham, Ashley Chen makes the bet to create an original piece with the same
process, but with a different vocabulary. A way to test the universality of their creative
processes, to show how these random systems react, and whether they are still relevant in
contemporary creation. Ashley Chen, who studied at the National Conservatory of Music
and Dance in Paris before spending four years in the company of the greatest
choreographer of the twentieth century, has the art of curling the curls: he just back
Beach Birds , head -country work for the Angers National Center for Contemporary
Dance. In the meantime, he has performed for the Lyon Opera Ballet and has made
himself an atypical choreographer between London, Brussels, New York and Paris. Of
course, reactivating these discoveries, sources of contemporary dance, in our time,
displaces look and interpretation. By bringing chance into the game, Ashley Chen asks
her three dancers to take a real risk, leading to a multitude of possible combinations. The
result is a dynamic choreography, a joyous chaos that is organized before our eyes. The
music, written by Pierre Le Bourgeois, is in tune with these cheerful confrontations,
taking Cage's lessons to turn them into wild rock or distilling a sound atmosphere from
acoustic instruments. A nice wink, not without a touch of self-deprecation, carried by a
subtlety of writing that the Master New York probably would not have denied.
(​http://www.montpellierdanse.com/spectacle/chance-space-time-2​)

6/26/2019 Merce Cunningham Day of Activities and Performances at Montpellier

● http://www.montpellierdanse.com/programme-montpellier-danse/un-jour-avec-merce-c

Link outlines all of the activities on this day as follows.

Morning class in public for professional dancers​: Ashley Chen , guest choreographer
at the 39th Festival, is a former dancer of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Exceptionally for this day, he offers spectators to attend a morning class, a real daily
ritual of dancers, as Merce Cunningham could lead them in his own company. The
dancers of the companies present as well as the professional dancers of the city are
invited to join this morning class.

R vs Projection​: By Jacqueline Caux , filmmaker and writer, close to Merce

Cunningham and John Cage - " The afternoon will begin with the presentation of the
Journal of a ballet : a reflection of Merce Cunningham on the difficulty of filming the
dance, followed by the screening of the film Channels Inserts he made, in 1981, with
Charles Atlas. Then "we will invite to our table," Merce Cunningham and John Cage,
through fragments of audio interviews, photos and film clips. Thus, they can tell us,
among other things, the capital distanciation - which was a scandal at the time - they
installed, in 1944, between music and dance. "

Screening of the film Channels Inserts by Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham
(1981, 32 minutes): ​Channels Inserts​ was filmed in January 1981 at the Merce
Cunningham Dance Studio in Westbeth. The choreography is read in rapid images,
abruptly frozen in brief paintings from which spring new forms. The alternating montage
of Charles Atlas, the juxtaposition of different events, visual and sound, filmed in
different places of the company's studio, appearing simultaneously on the screen produce,
apart from any anecdote, a mysterious, dramatic, totally unexpected effect. Thanks to
Merce Cunningham Trust.

Screening of Lise Friedman and Maia Wechsler (2018, 1h23, in English without
subtitles) in the presence of Stephen Petronio​- If the Dancer Dances invites the viewer
to enter the intimate world of the dance studio, when RainForest (1968) transmits by
three former members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company to the dancers of
Stephen Petronio. The latter is determined to help his dancers to breathe new life into this
great work. Designed to coincide with the centenary of Merce Cunningham, the film
traces the personal challenges each of the dancers face, and reveals what is needed to
keep a dance alive. If The Dancer Dances is the first documentary on Cunningham's work
since his death in 2009.

Chance, Space & Time by Ashley Chen​: Ashley Chen asks her three dancers to take a
real risk, leading to a multitude of possible combinations. The result is a dynamic
choreography, a joyous chaos that is organized before our eyes. A nice nod, carried by a
subtlety of writing that Merce Cunningham would probably not have denied.
 Not a moment too soon by Trevor Carlson & Ferran Carvajal: ​Not a moment too
soon allows us to glimpse the hidden side of the genius Merce Cunningham: a
mischievous man who loved to laugh and an adventurous artist who liked to take risks. A
polymorphic and fascinating spectacle, a sort of mirage of memory, bringing out new
films, revealing subtle relationships.

Summerspace / Exchange by the Opera Ballet of Lyon:​ In Summerspace , dancers

evolve as if in suspension. The decor and the pointillist and tawny costumes, the lights in
constant mutation bring out an infinite space-time. Exchange , is a piece of incredible
complexity, "that has no end", consisting of a range of movements that are "sentences"
drawn by lot.

Public rendering of the DanceForms workshop​: Collaborations, the constant search for
novelty and technologies were a hallmark, Merce Cunningham's vision of art. This
workshop, which has been taking place at the Agora since June 21st, is an interesting
point of entry both in its thinking and in its work process. Both choreographers and
dancers, the participants had the unique opportunity to observe the process of Merce
Cunningham whose return this Wednesday, June 26 is the end point.

7/1/2019 Wooden Floor Co-Creation Lab

● Experience the premiere of a powerful collaboration using chance procedures and

indeterminacy techniques pioneered by Merce Cunningham to co-create new
choreography between The Wooden Floor’s highly regarded young dancers and the
acclaimed Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, former company members of Merce
Cunningham Dance Company. The evening-length performance will also include a
MinEvent, an original arrangement of Cunningham work performed by Eleanor Hullihan,
Cori Kresge, and Joshua Tuason, as well as a Cunningham dance film.
(​https://www.thewoodenfloor.org/template.php?id=173​)

7/4/2019 Merce Cunningham at SALT

● Influential choreographer Merce Cunningham's film and video works are being screened
at the Walk-in Cinema at SALT Beyoğlu from July 11 to Aug. 3, in collaboration with
the Merce Cunningham Trust and Electronic Arts Intermix.
(​https://www.dailysabah.com/arts-culture/2019/07/17/salt-beyoglu-celebrates-merce-cun
ninghams-birthday-with-centennial-screenings​) Article outlines in detail the screenings.

7/12/2019 Modern Dance at the Modern: Celebrating Merce Cunningham

● Presented by Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth in collaboration with the Modern Art

Museum of Fort Worth, the Annual Modern Dance Festival in Fort Worth, TX is
celebrating the legacy of Merce Cunningham this month in celebration of his 100th
 birthday. Within a 16-day window at The Modern, a variety of films, videos, lectures,
“happenings” or “events” and performances will be offered. Content directly
representing Cunningham’s work is provided courtesy of the Merce Cunningham Trust.
(​https://blackearthinstitute.org/16th-annual-modern-dance-festival-at-the-modern-celebrat
ing-the-merce-cunningham-centennial/​)

7/13/2019 If the Dancer Dances Screening - Contemporary Dance w/Gus Solomons

● Presented by Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth. “If The Dancer Dances” (2019, 87

minutes – a documentary film by Lise Friedman and Maia Wechsler, edited by Mary
Manhardt) follows one of New York City’s top modern dance companies as they struggle
to reconstruct an iconic and mysterious work by the legendary Merce Cunningham,
revealing what it takes to keep a dance – and a legacy – alive. But, unlike other live arts,
dance has no script or score. Instead, dance is transmitted from body to body, one
generation to the next. With unprecedented access, If the Dancer Dances delves into this
intimate, unfolding process, as Merce Cunningham’s 1968 RainForest is brought to life
once again. Starring the Stephen Petronio Company and members of the former Merce
Cunningham Dance Company, including: Stephen Petronio, Gus Solomons jr, Andrea
Weber, Davalois Fearon, and Gino Grenek. RainForest (as performed by the Stephen
Petronio Company, 2015-2017) features music by David Tudor, décor by Andy Warhol,
lighting design by Aaron Copp and costume design after the original design by Jasper
Johns. Timed to coincide with Cunningham’s Centennial, If the Dancer Dances is the
first documentary on the subject of Cunningham’s work since his passing in 2009. Guest
speaker Gus Solomons jr (a former Cunningham company member who is featured in the
film) will introduce the film and participate in a Q&A with the audience.
(​https://www.themodern.org/films/5151​)

7/15/2019 Dance Place/ Kennedy Center Workshop

● The Kennedy Center, in collaboration with Dance Place and The Merce Cunningham
Trust, will be offering two weeks of professional-level Cunningham Technique classes
taught by Merce Cunningham Trust stager Jamie Scott. Classes will progress from day to
day. Registering for the entire two weeks is recommended, though individual sign-ups
will be allowed. Limited space available! Professional level dancers only. These classes
are offered as part of a larger project with select local dancers that will culminate in a
MinEvent performance at DancePlace on Saturday, July 27 and Sunday, July 28. All
classes 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Kennedy Center.
(​http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/ETEDP​)

7/18/2019 Wood Floor Co-Creation Lab Performance

 ● Experience the premiere of a powerful collaboration using chance procedures and
indeterminacy techniques pioneered by Merce Cunningham to co-create new
choreography between The Wooden Floor’s highly regarded young dancers and the
acclaimed Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, former company members of Merce
Cunningham Dance Company. The evening-length performance will also include a
MinEvent, an original arrangement of Cunningham work performed by Eleanor Hullihan,
Cori Kresge, and Joshua Tuason, as well as a Cunningham dance film.
(​https://www.thewoodenfloor.org/template.php?id=173​)

7/18/2019 Tamsin Carlson Master Classes at Modern Art Museum

● Celebrating the Merce Cunningham Centennial - Modern Dance FestivalModern Dance

Festival at the Modern, July 19, 2019 - 6:30pm- Performance of Dance and Music
Presented by Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth

Special guest Tamsin Carlson will perform the Merce Cunningham solos she learned for
the Los Angeles performance of the Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event [See
description near top of press release]. Both opening and closing the program, she'll
perform the solos two different ways, with chance elements determining how they are
performed. Additional performances will include choreography by Kali Taft Johnson
(Kaliopi Movement Collective), Kerry Kreiman (CD/FW), and Jessica Thomas (Celina,
TX).
(​https://www.themodern.org/performance/upcoming/celebrating-the-merce-cunningham-
centennial--modern-dance-festival/5157​)

Did not see masterclasses, but saw this about her performance.

7/20/2019 Night of 100 Solos

● A Centennial Event– With the original performances having taken place on April 16 in
New York City, Los Angeles, and London, the edited versions of this largest
Cunningham Event ever will be displayed simultaneously in the Museum Auditorium, the
Grand Lobby, and Gallery 14. Guest speakers Tamsin Carlson (featured performer from
the Los Angeles location), Jeffrey Slayton (L.A. dance critic and former Cunningham
company member), and Ken Tabachnik (executive director of the Merce Cunningham
Trust), will give introductory remarks, background, and context regarding this special
Event in honor of Merce Cunningham’s 100th birthday. In addition, all three will be
available for audience Q&A immediately following the screening of the Los Angeles
performance.
(​https://www.themodern.org/performance/upcoming/night-of-100-solos-a-centennial-eve
nt/5155​)
7/20/2019 ​Brazos River - Viola Farber and Merce - with Jeff Slayton 

● A rare glimpse into the Modern’s archive, “Brazos River” (60 minutes) features the Viola 
Farber Dance Company in a special project which originated in Fort Worth. Shot in 
December 1976, this collaborative video features choreography by Viola Farber, music 
by David Tudor, and costumes/set by Robert Rauschenberg. The project was conceived 
by the Fort Worth Art Museum's Performing Arts Director, Anne Livet, in conjunction 
with their Texas Bicentennial program, and was co-produced by KERA-TV Channel 13, 
Dallas-Fort Worth. According to the Rauschenberg Foundation, this project marked 
Rauschenberg's first use of video, and he spent time working with studio technicians to 
understand what colors could be best transmitted on television. Funding for the initial 
project included support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas 
Commission on the Arts & Humanities, the Fort Worth Art Museum, and the Corporation 
for Public Broadcasting. Directed by Dan Parr. Dancers featured: Jumay Chu, Larry 
Clark, Viola Farber, Willi Feuer, June Finch, Anne Koren, Susan Matheke, Andé Peck, 
and Jeff Slayton. Guest speaker Jeff Slayton will introduce the video and lead a Q&A 
with the audience. Farber and Slayton were members of the Cunningham company for 
many years, and this project is a perfect example of how Cunningham's work impacted 
the work of dancers who came out of his company. Special thanks to the Modern Art 
Museum of Fort Worth for contributing this work from their archives. Slayton will also 
introduce a screening of Farber’s “January” (26 minutes) – Directed by Kevin Crooks in 
1984, the Viola Farber Dance Company collaborated with TSW LTD to record her group 
work “January" at Dartington Hall in Devon, UK. 
(​https://www.themodern.org/films/Upcoming/Viola-Farber-and-the-Cunningham-Legacy
-Screening-of-Brazos-River-and-discussion-with-guest-Jeff-Slayton/5158​) 

7/20/2019 Can Dance be Abstract?  

● Lecture-performance and discussion exploring questions at the heart of the development 

of modern and contemporary dance. Attendees are invited to bring their questions and 
observations to a conversation led by CD/FW artistic director Kerry Kreiman. 
Experiments in trying to see human beings “abstractly” on the stage will be conducted in 
honor of the twentieth century dance maverick Daniel Nagrin, using some of the 
techniques he used to teach choreography and performance. 
(​https://www.themodern.org/films/Upcoming/Viola-Farber-and-the-Cunningham-Legacy
-Screening-of-Brazos-River-and-discussion-with-guest-Jeff-Slayton/5158​) 

7/20/2019 Night of 100 Solos Screenings 

● A Centennial Event– With the original performances having taken place on April 16 in 
New York City, Los Angeles, and London, the edited versions of this largest 
 Cunningham Event ever will be displayed simultaneously in the Museum Auditorium, the 
Grand Lobby, and Gallery 14. Guest speakers Tamsin Carlson (featured performer from 
the Los Angeles location), Jeffrey Slayton (L.A. dance critic and former Cunningham 
company member), and Ken Tabachnik (executive director of the Merce Cunningham 
Trust), will give introductory remarks, background, and context regarding this special 
Event in honor of Merce Cunningham’s 100th birthday. In addition, all three will be 
available for audience Q&A immediately following the screening of the Los Angeles 
performance. 
(​https://www.themodern.org/performance/upcoming/night-of-100-solos-a-centennial-eve
nt/5155​)  

7/31/2019 The National Center for Choreography and DANCECleveland- Dancing Lab 

● The ADF in CLE Summer Dance Workshop is a four-day workshop comprised of classes 
in modern, hip hop, and contemporary dance along with other dance activities and 
performances for professional and advanced level dancers ages 13 to 28. The workshop 
provides time and space for dancers to immerse themselves in their training, expand their 
skills as a creator, and connect with professional artists while training under renowned 
ADF faculty. Students will be able to hone their art form in small, intimate class sizes and 
experience styles ranging from modern with Justin Tornow, hip hop with Otto 
Aquaboogy Vazquez and engage in the West African and Caribbean style of 
contemporary dance by Ronald K. Brown. Classes will be held from 9:30 am-4:00 pm 
daily. 
(​https://www.dancecleveland.org/events/2019/07/23/adf-in-cle-summer-dance-festival/w
orkshop​) 

8/6/2019 Lecture and Performances Akron Art Museum with Malpaso ​Fielding Sixes 

● Join us as we celebrate a century of artistic expression with legendary 

dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham and his influence on culture.  

6 pm • Audience members will have the opportunity to learn about Merce’s unique 
artistic expression through a discussion with Ken Tabachnick, Director of the Merce 
Cunningham Trust & Knight Foundation President, Alberto Ibarguen. 

6:45 pm • Following the discussion, there will be a performance in the galleries of 
Fielding Sixes* by Malpaso Dance Company, the 1st Cuban contemporary dance 
company to be given a Cunningham work. The performance will be followed a 
Cunningham Event of Solos danced by Katharine Helen Fisher, Jessica Liu, Daniel 
McCusker, Polly Motley. 
 Presented by NCCAkron, DANCECleveland and Akron Art Museum. 
(​https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-merce-cunninghams-choreography-tickets-6463
7344036​) 

8/7/2019 Cleveland Art Museum Lecture and Malpaso ​Fielding Sixes 

● Join us for a collaboration with DANCECleveland, as we celebrate a century of artistic 

expression with legendary dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham and his influence 
on culture. This lecture-performance features a performance of Fielding Sixes by 
Malpaso Dance Company, the first Cuban company ever to be given a work by Merce, 
and a talk by Ken Tabachnick, Executive Director of the Merce Cunningham Trust. 
(​http://www.clevelandart.org/events/music-and-performances/merce-cunningham-centen
nial-celebration​) 

8/10/2019 Bay Area Artists in Conversation 

● Signals from the West: Bay Area Artists in Conversation with Merce Cunningham at 100 
is a bicoastal collaboration with the Merce Cunningham Trust, ODC Theater and 
SFMOMA’s Open Space as part of the international celebration of the Cunningham 
centennial. Signals from the West has commissioned ten Bay Area artists from diverse 
disciplines and backgrounds to participate in a residency August 12-23, 2019 with former 
Cunningham dancers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener and create new works of art in 
response to this experience. These commissioned works will premiere, alongside excerpts 
of Cunningham repertory performed by Bay Area dancers selected through a workshop 
with Mitchell and Riener, at ODC Theater November 8 & 9, 2019. SFMOMA’s Open 
Space will commission an online series in conjunction with the program. 
(​https://www.hopemohr.org/2019-bridge-project​) 

10/5/2019 Kennedy Center: Dancing for Merce 

● More about Let's Talk Dance- Join us for various conversations, panels, Q&As, lectures, 
artist talks, pre- and post-performance discussions, podcasts, and more inspired by 
themes and topics of the current ballet and dance seasons. With each event, we will 
connect you to dance beyond performance and strive to inspire you towards a deeper 
appreciation for the world of dance. 
(​http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/EUEDC​) 

11/5/2019 Bay Area Artists in Conversation with Merce Performances, In Conversation with 
Merce Cunningham at 100, ODC 

● HMD’s Bridge Project presents Bay Area Artists in Conversation with Merce at 100 a 
collaboration with the Merce Cunningham Trust, ODC Theater, and SFMOMA’s Open 
Space as part of the international celebration of the Cunningham centennial. The Bay 
Area Merce project will commission ten Bay Area artists from diverse disciplines and 
backgrounds to study with former Cunningham dancers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas 
Riener and create new works of art in response. These works will be presented alongside 
excerpts of Cunningham repertory by Bay Area dancers. The ten commissioned Bay Area 
artists are: Alex Escalante, Christy Funsch, Dazaun Soleyn, Sophia Wang, Sofia 
Cordova, Jenny Odell, Danishta Rivero, Julie Moon, Maxe Crandall, and Nicole Peisl. 
(​http://odc.dance/merce​)