Hazel Larsen Archer, contact sheet of Merce Cunningham dancing, n.d.
Screenings

Cage/Cunningham

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Elliot Caplan’s documentary chronicles the 50-year collaboration between two of the country’s most influential artists, the choreographer Merce Cunningham and the composer John Cage, examining their integration of Buddhism into their work and their lives together. (1991, dir. Elliot Caplan, 100 min.)

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