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Merce Cunningham
American dancer and choreographer (1919–2009)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 16 April 1919
- Died
- 26 July 2009
- Place of birth
- Centralia
- Place of death
- New York City
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Cunningham
- Occupation
- ballet dancer, choreographer, author, draftsperson, dancer, conductor, musician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Capezio Dance Award, MacArthur Fellows Program, Kennedy Center Honors, Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, Knight of the Legion of Honour, National Medal of Arts, Bessie Awards, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Sacem Awards, Handel Medallion
- artist files at
- Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- birth name
- Mercier Philip Cunningham
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- employer
- Black Mountain College
- has works in the collection
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Modern Art, CODA Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Martha Graham Dance Company
- name in native language
- Merce Cunningham
- represented by
- Electronic Arts Intermix
- sexual orientation
- homosexuality
- start of work period
- 1938
- topic's main category
- Category:Ballets by Merce Cunningham
- unmarried partner
- John Cage
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