Merce Cunningham's early admirers singled out two things about him that are seldom remarked on now: his light touch and his latent dramatic qualities. After his first independent concerts, in the mid-1940s, critic Edwin Denby noted that he didn’t create “different objective characters, but rather lyric variations of his own character.” In 1957 James Waring, […]

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