Topic: Merce Cunningham
AP Features | 2009-12-30 19:38:14
Of all the notables who died in 2009, the one who most changed the world could have walked down any Main Street USA without causing a stir. Scientist Norman Borlaug, who died Sept. 12 at age 95, developed crops that enabled Third World farmers to wrest more food from their land. His "green revolution" was credited with averting global famine ...
WENN | 2009-07-28 16:21:14
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* DANCE LEGEND CUNNINGHAM DIES, AGED 90
Influential American choreographer MERCE CUNNINGHAM, hailed as revolutionising modern dance, has died at the age of 90.
The dancing great died at his New York home on Sunday (26Jul09), "peacefully" and from ...
AP News | 2009-07-28 07:32:15
Taiwan's Lin Hwai-min calls Cunningham 20th century's greatest choreographer
One of the top modern dancers of the East on Tuesday paid tribute to a giant of the West, as Taiwan's Lin Hwai-min mourned the death of Merce Cunningham, calling the late American "the greatest choreographer of the 20th century." Cunningham, best known for pioneering pure movement in ...
AP News | 2009-07-28 07:02:50
FILE- In This July 27, 1964 file photo, Merce Cunningham lifts Carolyn Brown during rehearsal at Sadler Wells Theater in London, England. Cunningham died on Sunday, July 26, 2009 at his Manhattan home of natural causes, a spokeswoman for the ...
