Merce Cunningham, incontestably the grand master of modern dance, died two and a half years ago, at the age of ninety.

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Snelson first delved into sculpture during his first summer at the prestigious Black Mountain College in 1948, when such legends as Willem DeKooning, John Cage and Merce Cunningham were on faculty.

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ABSTRACT:DANCING review about Merce Cunningham.

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By the age of 14, he was studying Chinese opera movement and paying for his first ballet lessons with money earned by writing. (He later published two novels.) The turning point came when Lin studied with modern dance pioneers Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham - influences that could be detected flitting through his early work with Cloud Gate.

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