Film

A seminal figure of the 20th-century avant-garde, American choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919—2009) engaged the boundaries of dance for more than 70 years. Throughout his long career, Cunningham continuously experimented with the limits of human movement, always gauging the historic relevancy of his art, especially in relation to current technology and media. In the 1960s, he began collaborating with several experimental film and media makers to integrate their unique syntax of framing and editing into his work.

EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix) is pleased to partner with Migrating Forms to present a program of works that highlight Cunningham’s choreography for camera and his close collaboration with former Cunningham filmmaker-in-residence Charles Atlas, with whom he created a new influential hybrid art called “video-dance.” The program also includes Cunningham’s collaboration with Atlas, Nam June Paik, and Shigeko Kubota, which was staged for public television.