John Cage

Notation: Gabe Valentine

Embodying Marks: Dance Notation and Scores in Conversation

Emilee Lord

A conversation on motif description and scores with Emilee Lord and Brendan McCall.

Photo: John Ross

Going Deep: Cunningham in Three Dimensions

Emma Cohen

A 3D film of Cunningham’s life provides a texturally rich environment in which viewers can dwell.

Photo: David Chin

Semi-Composed: Metamorphosis Offers John Cage-Inspired Evening

Karl Surkan

Groenendaal, Faylor, and their collaborators have created a show that would never be exactly the same twice.

Photo: JJ Tiziou

A Different Kind of Viewing: Susan Rethorst’s “Day of Dance”

Carolyn Merritt

I think of all the places I have lived...Do I ever fully take stock, record to memory, carry their traces and leave mine behind?

Photo: James Klosty (1972)

May I Have This Dance, By Chance?

Lynn Matluck Brooks

I chance upon pieces dancing around the Bride: Cage’s neat scores, Duchamp’s nudes descending shattered large glasses, Cunningham’s reeling dances.

Photo: Megan Bridge

Anarchic Harmony: Cage’s Song Books

Carolyn Merritt

What if the creator’s role was to release into the world a never-ending set of possibilities, whose lives would surely outlive that of their originator?

Photo: Megan Bridge

From the Studio: Experimentation and Process

Megan Bridge

I call my work both “experimental” and “process based.” Being in the studio allows me to confront those monikers and try to figure out what they mean.