Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

* 1919 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer ( d. 2009 )

" Her circle of friends in the New York art world has included Kate Millett, Nam June Paik, Dan Richter, Jonas Mekas, Merce Cunningham, Judith Malina, Erica Abeel, Fred DeAsis, Peggy Guggenheim, Betty Rollin, Shusaku Arakawa, Adrian Morris, Stefan Wolpe, Keith Haring, and Andy Warhol, as well as Maciunas and Young.

Dancers and choreographers such as Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Doris Humphrey, Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor re-defined movement, struggling to bring it back to its ' natural ' roots and along with Jazz, created a solely American art form.

* April 16 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer ( d. 2009 )

It was in New York that she studied with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham.

He wrote mostly electronic works, many commissioned by Cage's partner, choreographer Merce Cunningham.

Upon Cage's death in 1992, Tudor took over as music director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Among many works created for the company, Tudor composed Soundings: Ocean Diary ( 1994 ), the electronic component of Ocean, which was conceived by John Cage and Merce Cunningham, with choreography by Merce Cunningham, orchestral music by Andrew Culver, and design by Marsha Skinner.

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Notable natives of Centralia include modern dancer Merce Cunningham, Arizona Diamondback Lyle Overbay, cable television and early mobile phone entrepreneur Craig McCaw, CFL offensive lineman Calvin Armstrong, video game designer and programmer Soren Johnson, Stanford quarterback Tavita Pritchard, former MLB outfielder Bob Coluccio, Metropolitan Opera soprano Angela Meade.

Cage stood reading from a ladder, Charles Olson read from another ladder, Robert Rauschenberg showed some of his paintings and played wax cylinders of Édith Piaf on an Edison horn recorder, David Tudor performed on a prepared piano and Merce Cunningham danced.

In 1967, he designed the set and costumes for Scramble, a dance piece by Merce Cunningham.

Merce Cunningham ( 1919 – 2009 ) introduced chance procedures and composition by field.

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1968: Merce Cunningham Dance Company performs its first extended New York season

Artists who have presented their works there include Philip Glass, Peter Brook, Pina Bausch, Merce Cunningham, Laurie Anderson, Lee Breuer, ETHEL, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Steve Reich, Seal, Alice in Chains, Robert Wilson, BLACKstreet, Ingmar Bergman, The Whirling Dervishes and the Kirov Opera directed and conducted by Valery Gergiev among others.

The BAC presents three annual performances by the Minnesota Orchestra and has recently commissioned works by Diavolo and Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Johnson decided on Albers ’ advice to stay at BMC for a final term in summer 1948, when the visiting faculty included John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, and Richard Lippold.

He founded Something Else Press in 1963, which published many important texts including Gertrude Stein, Marshall McLuhan, artists John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Claes Oldenburg, Ray Johnson, Bern Porter, leading Fluxus members George Brecht, Wolf Vostell, Daniel Spoerri, Emmett Williams, Ken Friedman, and others.

His light opera The Wind Remains, based on a poem by García Lorca, was performed in 1943 with choreography by Merce Cunningham and conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

— Merce Cunningham, Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance, 2000

* 1985 — Merce Cunningham, Irene Dunne, Bob Hope, Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe, and Beverly Sills

* Abe Cunningham — drums

In comparatively recent times Noah and Charles Grimes, Bayless and Jacob Carter, — Cunningham & Smith, and several others, had stores.

* 2001 — Les Cunningham Award ( AHL MVP )

The Walker launched significant program initiatives and established key relationships with a range of artists now considered masters — Cunningham, Mabou Mines, Philip Glass, Twyla Tharp, Meredith Monk, and many others — that continue today.

Hershiser stunned the poker world by making the quarterfinals, defeating 2006 event champion Ted Forrest, Allen Cunningham, and Freddy Deeb — players who had won a total of 12 World Series of Poker bracelets heading into the event.

* Glenn Cunningham — Silver Medalist 1500 meters run, 1936 Olympics

* Joshua Cunningham — guitars, vocals, mandolin, ukulele, dobro ( 1992 – present )

* In Burnaby — Douglas, Martin supporter Bill Cunningham, a former president of the Liberal Party of Canada ( British Columbia ), was directly appointed by the party leader without allowing a vote ; the entire riding association executive resigned in protest.

* Handbook for London — Cunningham 1849

* London Past & Present — Wheatley and Cunningham, 1891

On Songs From the Depression, the New Lost City Ramblers performed a variety of political contemporary popular songs from the New Deal days, all but one of them taken from commercially issued 78s, and that one is " Keep Moving ," identified in the album notes only as " from Tony Schwartz ' collection — singer unidentified " when actually it is by Agnes " Sis " Cunningham, the full title being " How Can You Keep On Moving ( Unless You Migrate Too ).

* A Little Magic — P. E. Cunningham

Borbidge needed the support of the two independents in the legislature — Cunningham and Peter Wellington -- and the One Nation MPs to stay in power.

In 1980, she landed her most prominent role — that of scheming, manipulative Abby Cunningham on the long-running primetime soap opera Knots Landing, a role she played until 1989.

Liriel Baenre ( created by Elaine Cunningham )— the beautiful, flippant, and sardonic daughter of Gromph — originally belonged to House Vandree, before her talent for arcane magic was discovered by her father.

Herbert Croly was born in New York City in 1869 to journalists Jane Cunningham Croly — better known by her pseudonym “ Jenny June ”— and David Goodman Croly.

June 1972 — Lieutenant Randall H. Cunningham ( second from left ) in a ceremony honoring him and Lieutenant ( JG ) William P. Driscoll ( third from left ), the Navy's only Vietnam War air " Aces ".

Cunningham was reportedly almost court-martialed while an instructor at TOPGUN for allegedly breaking into his commanding officer's office to compare his record and fitness reports with those of his colleagues — a charge denied by Cunningham, but supported by two of his superior officers at the time.

" BT " is an abbreviation for " Buoy Toy " — a 42 foot Carver yacht that Cunningham eventually purchased for $ 140, 000 ( noted as " 140 " to the right ).