Room 1
Merce Cunningham & Dance Company
23rd International Festival of Contemporary Music
Dance performance with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, John Cage and David Tudor
Teatro La Fenice, 24 September 1960
Photos: Radford Bascome
23rd International Festival of Contemporary Music
Dance performance with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, John Cage and David Tudor
Teatro La Fenice, 24 September 1960
Photos: Foto Film, Giacomelli
23rd International Festival of Contemporary Music
Dance performance with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, John Cage and David Tudor
Teatro La Fenice, 24 September 1960
Photos: Foto Film
23rd International Festival of Contemporary Music
Dance performance with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, John Cage and David Tudor
Teatro La Fenice, 24 September 1960
Photos: Foto Film
23rd International Festival of Contemporary Music
Dance performance with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, John Cage and David Tudor
Teatro La Fenice, 24 September 1960
Photos: Giacomelli
23rd International Festival of Contemporary Music
Dance performance with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, John Cage and David Tudor
Teatro La Fenice, 24 September 1960
Photo: Foto Film
23rd International Festival of Contemporary Music
Dance performance with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, John Cage and David Tudor
Teatro La Fenice, 24 September 1960
Poster
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972
Poster
Photo: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972
Photo: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Canfield
Teatro La Fenice, 11 September 1972
Poster
Photo: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Canfield
Teatro La Fenice, 11 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Canfield
Teatro La Fenice, 11 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Canfield
Teatro La Fenice, 11 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Canfield
Teatro La Fenice, 11 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Canfield
Teatro La Fenice, 11 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Canfield
Teatro La Fenice, 11 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972
Poster
Photo: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972
Photos: Ferruzzi
Merce Cunningham’s presence in Venice, to which this exhibition bears witness, spanned over a decade (1960-1972) at a time in which dance was an integral part of a revolution that involved all the arts. A tireless experimenter, Cunningham pioneered many of the changes that were destined to reverberate through the new millennium.
The photographs displayed here celebrate some of the steps in his evolution: from choreographies that disrupted the frontality and centrality of the stage and created a thousand vanishing lines, to the use of random procedures, to the explosion of Events such as the one held in Saint Mark’s Square, which inaugurated the era of happenings and performances.
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