July 27, 2009
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Requiem for a Choreographer:
Field DanceThe New York Times
on June 17, 2007:Design Meets Dance,
and Rules Are BrokenYesterday’s evening entry was
on the fictional sins of a fictional
mathematician and also (via a link
to St. Augustine’s Day, 2006), on
the geometry of the I Ching* –The eternal
combined with
the temporal:
The fictional mathematician’s
name, noted here (with the Augustine-
I Ching link as a gloss) in yesterday’s
evening entry, was Summerfield.From the above Times article–
“Summerspace,” a work by
choreographer Merce Cunningham
and artist Robert Rauschenberg
that offers a competing
vision of summer:
From left, composer John Cage,
choreographer Merce Cunningham,
and artist Robert Rauschenberg
in the 1960′s
“When shall we three meet again?”* Update of ca. 5:30 PM 7/27– today’s online New York Times (with added links)– “The I Ching is the ‘Book of Changes,’ and Mr. Cunningham’s choreography became an expression of the nature of change itself. He presented successive images without narrative sequence or psychological causation, and the audience was allowed to watch dance as one might watch successive events in a landscape or on a street corner.”
