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Merce Notable Pieces/ Perfomance

-The Coast Zone

-Second Hand

-Changing Step 1

-Variations V

-Split sides

-Channels/Insert

Merce's Adwards

-1966: Gold Medal for Choreographic

Invention at the fourth International

Festival of Dance, (Paris)

-1983: The mayor of New York's awards

of Honors for Arts and Culture, (New York,

NY)

-1993: New York Dance and Performance

award, (New York, NY)

Martha's Noble Pieces/Performances

-Maple Leaf Rag

-Political Dance Project

-"Aden Theather" A Class --Company

-Clytemnestra

-Chasing

-Care of the Heat

Compare:

-Martha & Merce both grew up in small areas

-Both have Iconoclastic Contemporary styles

-Established their companies in New York.

Martha Graham (Maple Rag)

Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Established in New York City, Park Avenue Armory in 1953

Coast Zone

Martha Graham

Born: May 11, 1894 in Pitisburgh, Pennsylvania

Died: April 1, 1991

Mercie Cunningham became Merce Cunningham when founding and directing his own dance company in 1953. Merce Cunningham's dance style was Iconoclastic Contemporay. Iconoclastic means one who seeks, overthrow tranditional or popular ideas.

Martha Graham was influenced early by her father who was a doctor and speacilized in nervous disorders. He expressed to Martha that the body could express its inner sense which then that exact statment intrigued Martha to want to dance. Martha Graham studied dance in Los Angeles at Denishawn in 1916.

Contrast

-Mercie was influenced by neighbor and fellow church memeber

-Martha was influenced by her father

-Martha traveld more outside the USA

Mercie Philip Cunningham

Born : April 6, 1919 In Centralia

Died: July 2009

Mercie Cunningham was first introduced to dance by a neighbor and fellow church member named Barrett.

Barret became Mercie Cunninghams first dance teacher.

Mercie Cunningham study dance at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle in 1937.

Martha's Awards

-1979: Outstanding Achievement in Choreography

-1977: Outstanding Classical Program in the Performaing Arts

Martha Graham Dance Company

Established in 1926 New York City

Graham and Cunningham

By:Alexis Franklin

Maple Leaf Raf

Martha Graham directed and funded her own company in 1926. Martha's dance style is consider to be Iconoclastic Contemporary. Her bold use of socially infused subjects and emotionally charged performances.

Links

Merce Cunningham (Coast Zone)

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?displaypage=output.cfm&file_id=9042

http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2012/jan/02/merce-cunningham-dance-company/

http://www.mercecunningham.org/merce-cunningham/honors-awards/

http://marthagraham.org/about-us/our-history/

http://www.biography.com/people/martha-graham-9317723

http:www.pitt.edu/~gillis/dance/martha.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0334208/awards

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