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ID: 500316396
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500316396
 
Record Type: Person
Cunningham, Merce (American dancer and choreographer, 1919-2009)

Note: Avant-garde choreographer, partner and collaborator of John Cage.

Names:
Cunningham, Merce (preferred,U,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
Merce Cunningham (U,display)
Cunningham, Mercier (U)
Cunningham, Mercier Philip (U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
LGBTQ

Roles:
artist (preferred)
dancer
choreographer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Centralia (Lewis county, Washington, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
collaborated with ....  Atlas, Charles  
................................  (American filmmaker and video artist, born 1949) [500333810]
collaborated with ....  Bradshaw, Dove  
................................  (American painter, sculptor, and stage designer, born 1949) [500334791]
collaborated with ....  Kosugi, Takehisa  
................................  (Japanese conceptual artist and composer, 1938-2018, active in the United States) [500122680]
collaborated with ....  Paxton, Steve  
................................  (American dancer and choreographer, 1939-2024) [500393452]
collaborated with ....  Rauschenberg, Robert  
................................  (American painter, sculptor, and photographer, 1925-2008) [500002941]
partner of ....  Cage, John  
..................  (American composer and writer, 1912-1992) [500092036]
teacher of ....  Berensohn, Paulus  
..................  (American potter and dancer, 1933-2017) [500404145]
teacher of ....  Forti, Simone  
..................  (American choreographer and musician, born 1935, in Italy) [500351723]
worked with ....  Rosenthal, Rachel  
....................  (American performance artist and sculptor, 1926-2015) [500083622]
worked with ....  Solomons, Gus, Jr.  
....................  (American dancer and choreographer, 1938-2023) [500779990]
worked with ....  Taylor, Paul  
....................  (American dancer and choreographer, 1930-2018) [500476068]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Non-Artists
 ........  Cunningham, Merce (I,U)

Biographies:
(American dancer and choreographer, 1919-2009) ..... [Grove Art Preferred]
(American dancer and choreographer, born 1919) ..... [ARTstor]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, 1919-2009) ..... [MoMA]
(American choreographer, 1919-2009) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Cunningham, Merce ........ [ARTstor Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred]
....................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
....................................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
....................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 8443
....................................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M8; 890164
....................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 83047112
....................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 240732
Cunningham, Mercier ........ [Grove Art]
........................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
Cunningham, Mercier Philip ........ [GRL]
.....................................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 83047112
Merce Cunningham ........ [ARTstor, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, MoMA, VP]
..................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..................................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
..................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..................................  LARRY

Subject: ........ [ARTstor, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n83047112
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 8443
....................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n83047112
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 240732
....................  VIAF: Virtual International Authority File [online] (2009-) 56747674
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q318364
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
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