Merce Cunningham: Pioneer of Modern Dance

career forward. Denby ended his review of Cunningham's first solo performance by saying "I have never seen a first solo recital that combined such taste, such technical finish, such originality of dance material, and so sure a manner of presentation."
             Before the 1940s, expressionist was the leading form of modern dance. Cunningham on the other hand, was opposed to this type of dance and started to develop his own unique form of dance. While Graham had usually structured her dances around a certain narrative, Cunningham "developed 'choreography by chance,' a technique in which isolated movements are assigned se
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