{"id":9320,"date":"2011-12-29T08:04:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T16:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=9320"},"modified":"2012-02-18T08:11:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T16:11:05","slug":"on-december-29th-2011-cunningham-archives-at-the-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2011\/12\/29\/on-december-29th-2011-cunningham-archives-at-the-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"On December 29th, 2011, CUNNINGHAM ARCHIVES AT THE WALKER&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9321\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9321\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/2011\/12\/29\/on-december-29th-2011-cunningham-archives-at-the-walker\/2011-12-29-img_0100\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9321\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9321\" title=\"Cunningham archives at the Walker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2011-12-29-IMG_0100-242x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2011-12-29-IMG_0100-242x150.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2011-12-29-IMG_0100.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cunningham archives at the Walker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;seems tailor made for me, walking through the galleries, anticipating travel to NYC tomorrow, to see the finale New Years Eve performance of the company before it disbands. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkerart.org\/calendar\/2011\/dance-works-i-merce-cunningham-robert-rausche\" target=\"_blank\">Walker Art Center<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>The extraordinary partnership between two legendary artists is the foundation for this installation of backdrops, props, and costumes created for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC). Merce Cunningham (1919\u20132009) and Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), who repeatedly reshaped dance and visual art during their lengthy careers, collaborated on over 20 dance works between 1954 and 1964, a key period for both.Dance Works I\u00a0features enormous curtains painted by Rauschenberg for one of Cunningham\u2019s dance pieces that frame other rarely seen works he made for the stage, including large-scale sculptural objects that lend new perspective to his famous \u201ccombines\u201d of the 1950s. \u00a0Over more than 60 years, Cunningham not only expanded the parameters of dance but also transformed the role of the visual arts within them. The choreographer developed relationships based on free-thinking experimentation and exchange with numerous leading artists, often bringing them into the sphere of dance for the first time.\u00a0Dance Works Ishowcases one of the richest examples of this collaborative approach, inaugurating a series of exhibitions exploring Cunningham\u2019s work with visual artists and drawing from the Walker\u2019s 2011 acquisition of more than 150 works from the MCDC archive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;seems tailor made for me, walking through the galleries, anticipating travel to NYC tomorrow, to see the finale New Years Eve performance of the company before it disbands.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[684,1728,1349,100,386],"class_list":["post-9320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance","tag-art","tag-dance","tag-merce-cunningham","tag-minneapolis","tag-walker-art-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9324,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320\/revisions\/9324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}