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

In June 2009, Bernard Sumner formed a new band called Bad Lieutenant with Phil Cunningham ( guitar ) and Jake Evans ( guitar and vocals ), that completed an album, Never Cry Another Tear, which was released on 5 October 2009.

In May 2009, Cunningham joined AboutUs as its chief technology officer.

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

Bo Arne Leuf ( July 9, 1952 – April 24, 2009 ) was the author of the book The Wiki Way ( 2001 ), written in collaboration with wiki inventor Ward Cunningham.

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Cunningham ran for reelection as town supervisor in November 2009 but was defeated by Councilman Sam Messina.

* April 16-Merce Cunningham, dancer, choreographer ( d. 2009 )

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

* 2009 in art-Death of Coosje van Bruggen, Andrew Wyeth, Howard Kanovitz, Ernest Trova, Frederick Hammersley, Robert Colescott, Dash Snow, Merce Cunningham, Tony Rosenthal, Hyman Bloom, Barry Flanagan, Richard Merkin, Charles Seliger, Roy DeCarava, Nancy Spero, Irving Kriesberg, Jeanne-Claude, Peter Forakis, Thomas Hoving

In the first reshuffle of the SNP Government in February 2009, Cunningham was appointed as Minister for the Environment.

Mercier " Merce " Philip Cunningham ( April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009 ) was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of the American avant-garde for more than 50 years.

In 2009, MCDC premiered Cunningham ’ s newest work, Nearly Ninety, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

In 2009, Cunningham ’ s interest in new media led to the creation of Mondays with Merce.

The Cunningham Dance Foundation announced the Legacy Plan ( LLP ) in June 2009.

* Archival footage of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company performing in Sounddance in 2009 at Jacob's Pillow.

Cunningham remained O ' Brien's PPS as O ' Brien became a Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions from 2007 until 2008, then a Minister of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change from 2008 until 2009 and as a Minister of State at the Department of Health from 2009 until 2010.

During the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal, Cunningham was praised by The Telegraph, which cited his consistently low expenses that made him the 27th lowest claiming MP out of 645 MPs.

* On July 30, 2009, a Broadway-style dance version of " Send in the Clowns ", choreographed by Tyce Diorio, was shown to open So You Think You Can Dance ( Season 5 Episode 21 ) Top 6 Results.

** " Somewhere " ( Song and Dance ) – Company and " Dream Consuelo " ( in the 2009 revival, " Kiddo ", Tony, Maria, and Company )

" In June 2009, at the age of 76, Ono scored her fifth No. 1 hit on the " Dance / Club Play Chart " with " I'm Not Getting Enough.

* American — Craton, John: Pierrot and Pierrette a. k. a. Le Mime solitaire ( 2009 ; ballet ); Muller, Jennifer ( head of three-member Works Dance Company, New York ): Pierrot ( 1986 ; music and scenario by Thea Musgrave below under # Western classical | Western classical: Instrumental ); Russillo, Joseph ( works mainly in France ): Pierrot ( 1975 ; ballet ).

* Nijinsky & Neumeier Soulmates in Dance ( 2009 )

Bring Ya To The Brink led Lauper it received one nomination awards at the 2009 Grammy Awards: Best Electronic / Dance Album for Bring Ya To The Brink, being the first time that it indicates the award in four years.

Brent won the country's Street Dance Award held in the spring of 2009.

After another musical hiatus, the band released a second post-reunion studio album entitled Welcome to the Dance in 2009.

* Welcome to the Dance ( 2009 )

Fiction authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child used Inwood Hill Park as a mysterious locale for their 2009 bestseller Cemetery Dance.

* Dance India Dance, a reality dance show on Zee TV, first aired in 2009

Edmunds also played a five song set, including " I Hear You Knocking ," " I Knew the Bride " and " Sabre Dance " with the Holland Big Band at the Royal Albert Hall on 27 November 2009.

He returned and performed Sabre Dance on Hootenanny on the 2009 / 10 edition.

* Dance Flick ( 2009 )

* 2009 – " Sabre Dance " by Sonya Kahn ( Germany ) video

On 7 August 2009, a dub mix of the track " Sun to Me " from their latest studio album, The Dance, made its debut on BBC Radio 1's Pete Tong show.

* 2009 – Academy of World Music & Dance

In December 2009, McCall began hosting the Sky1 reality talent show Got to Dance.

It was originally planned that this show will return in 2009 and will take place on Friday, 19 June 2009, in Dance House, Oslo, Norway, however, as Director of Eurovision TV, Mr. Bjørn Erichsen informed on EBU press-conference in May 2009 " it has been cancelled again due to the low number of countries subscribed ".

In 2009, the Dance Theatre of Bradenton, Florida, presented the ballet version of the popular tale ( Allison Norton: The Ugly Duckling ).

" In addition, the National Science Foundation and the 2009 Lombardi Report also ranked Drexel among the top 50 private comprehensive research universities.

In September 2009, Prince William and Prince Harry set up The Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry to enable the princes to take forward their charitable ambitions.

After Robinson's death, his widow founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation, of which she remains an officer as of 2009.

In 2009, Lennon founded The White Feather Foundation, whose mission " embraces environmental and humanitarian issues and in conjunction with partners from around the world helps to raise funds for the betterment of all life, and to honour those who have truly made a difference.

JPL has been recognized four times by the Space Foundation: with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 1998 ; and with the John L. " Jack " Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration on three occasions – in 2009 ( as part of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Team ), 2006 and 2005.

In 2009, A 17. 5 million dollar contract to support elections was offered to Liberia with International Foundation for Electoral Systems as the conduit.

* February, 2009: MIPS Joins Linux Foundation

On 16 June 2009, the Pave the Way Foundation announced that it would release of 2, 300 pages of documents in Avellino, Italy, dating from 1940 to 1945, which the organization claims show that Pius XII " worked diligently to save Jews from Nazi tyranny "; the organization's founder, Krupp has accused historians of harboring " private agendas " and having " let down " the public.

On 17 September 2009, Pave the Way Foundation nominated Pius XII to be listed as Righteous Among the Nations at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.

At their 2009 convention, the Freedom From Religion Foundation awarded the “ Emperor Has No Clothes ” award to Le Guin.

Taleyarkhan received from September 2008 to August 2009 a $ 185, 000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate bubble fusion.

The university is designated as having very high research activity in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, and in 2009 had $ 325. 49 million in research and development expenditures according to the National Science Foundation.

Benigni was feted in San Francisco at a special reception held by the National Italian American Foundation ( NIAF ) in his honor in May 24, 2009.

In December 2009 the Kaiser Family Foundation published a report that summarized the CMS ratings of Medicare Advantage organizations on a five star scale.

Transference of relevant Symbian Software Ltd. leases, trademarks and domain names from Nokia to the Symbian Foundation was completed in April 2009.

On 18 July 2009, Nokia's Symbian professional services department, which was not transferred to the Symbian Foundation, was sold to the Accenture consulting company.

In October 2009 the Foundation For the Future announced that Pääbo had been awarded the 2009 Kistler Prize for his work isolating and sequencing ancient DNA, beginning in 1984 with a 2, 400-year-old mummy.

According to the Sloan Foundation reports, there has been an increase of around 12 – 14 percent per year on average in enrollments for fully online learning over the five years 2004 – 2009 in the US post-secondary system, compared with an average of approximately 2 per cent increase per year in enrollments overall.

FITS became independent from BECTA in 2009 and is now maintained and supported by The FITS Foundation.

* Award " Relative of humanity " by the " International Foundation Young Leaders ( 2009 )

23 Feb. 2009 < http :// www. pba. org / programming / programs / thisisatlanta / aidsquilt />.</ ref > The Quilt is still maintained and displayed by The NAMES Project Foundation.

*" Thomas and Sally: Interview with Annette Gordon Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello ", Peter S. Onuf, Back Story, American History Guys, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, ( Excerpted from Black & White: The Idea of Racial Purity ), podcast, 22 May 2009

He was inducted into the National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame in 2008 and inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009.

* Jacques Littlefield ( 1949 – 2009 ), President and Founder of the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation, one of the largest collections of historical military vehicles in the world.