Merce Cunningham

Joan Acocella writes about dance and other arts for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and other magazines. She is the author of Mark Morris (1993).,
Elliot Caplan is filmmaker-in-residence at the Cunningham Dance Foundation. He collaborated with Merce Cunningham on Deli Commedia, Points in Space, Changing Steps, and Beach Birds For Camera. His documentary portrait, Cage/Cunningham, was awarded the prize for Best Documentary at the 1992 IMZ Dance Screen Festival in Frankfurt. Beach Birds For Camera won the Grand Prize at the 1993 IMZ Festival, as well as the Grand Prize at the New York Dance On Camera Festival, 1993, and the Grand Prix International Video Dance, Stockholm, 1994.,
Marilyn Vaughan Drown has a Master of Arts Degree in Dance History from the University of California. She teaches dance at Crafton Hills College and practices Zen at the Zen Center in Los Angeles. She has published a report in Dance Research Journal and is currently working on a screenplay.,
William Fetterman was educated at Muhlenberg College and at New York University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1992. He has published several articles on theatre, composed performance poetry, and is the author of John Cage's Theatre Pieces: Notations and Performances (Harwood Academic Publishers).,
John Holzaepfel is a pianist, pedagogue, and musicologist. He studied piano with Ellsworth Snyder, who nurtured both his interest in contemporary music and his devotion to the piano-playing of earlier times. He also studied with Todd Welbourne at the University of Wisconsin, where he took his undergraduate degree in piano. He has given recitals of music from the 18th to the 20th centuries, and has published articles on medieval and contemporary music. He received his Ph.D. in historical musicology from the City University of New York, where he wrote his dissertation on David Tudor and the Performance of American Experimental Music, 1950-1959.,
Gordon Mumma was a composer and performer with Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1966 through 1972. He was a co-founder of the now-historic ONCE Festivals of Contemporary Music, and has collaborated with a diversity of musicians, choreographers, visual and theatre artists. He is Professor Emeritus of the University of California.,
Nelson Rivera is an associate professor at the University of Puerto Rico. He has curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary Puerto Rican art and has lectured and published extensively on the subject. In addition, he has been performing and directing his own theatre work since 1975.,
Thecla Schiphorst is a choreographer, dancer, and computer system designer. She is a choreographic consultant at the Computer Graphisc and Multi-Media Research Lab at the Center for Systems Science directed by Dr. Thomas W. Calvert at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver BC, and a faculty member at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver. She has worked with Merce Cunningham for the past five years exploring the use of computers for capturing choreographic ideas, and during that time has collaborated with Cunningham on the design of LifeForms.,
David Vaughan has been associated with Merce Cunningham for more than thirty years, since 1976 as archivist of the Cunningham Dance Foundation. He is the author of Frederick Ashton and his ballets (1977), and of the forthcoming Merce Cunningham: 50 Years.