Merce Cunningham Company – review

Barbican, LondonGalas and anniversaries rarely featured in the life of the late and very great Merce Cunningham. Making work was always more important to him than marking occasions. And while he agreed to make an exception for his 90th birthday, the title of the piece he choreographed, Nearly Ninety, pragmatically allowed for the possibility that he might not live to see the actual day.In fact, he died just three months later. The poignancy of seeing what is now Cunningham's final work is inten...

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