Friday, December 3, 2010
John Cage
The collaboration of John cage and Merce Cunningham began at Seattle's Cornish Dance School. John cage being a poet, artist and composer and Cunningham being a performer and choreographer. The two began working together when Cage began to compose piano pieces for Cunningham to dance too and the partnership took off from there. They ended up touring together and when the Merce Cunningham Dance Company formed, Cage was assigned the position of musical director. Both believed in experimentation and they always left space within both their compositions for the other to add in their own material. Cage and Cunningham bonded their spheres together having a well-known artistic partnership and a loving life together.
Merce Cunningham- Channels/Inserts
This piece is known as one of Merce Cunningham's finest works. Originally made for film it was later altered for theater performances. The score for this piece was constructed by David Tudor. In this piece Cunningham wanted to use smaller movements to present the illusion of various things happening at one moment. "Channels/Inserts", presents the idea of unpredictability which Cunningham used very often.
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