Superfluities Redux

by George Hunka
Artistic director, theatre minima

A Theatre Surrounds a City:
Vienna's Burgtheater


Monday, 27 July 2009

Merce Cunningham (1919-2009)

Photo: Annie Leibovitz

Alistair MacAulay in the New York Times reports the death last night of Merce Cunningham at the age of 90. "In his final years he became almost routinely hailed as the world's greatest choreographer," MacAulay writes. "For many, he had simply been the greatest living artist since Samuel Beckett."

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