Today I wake up thinking in Cunningham...

"You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive".

Merce Cunningham

This file photo provided by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company shows choreographer Merce Cunningham in New York in 2009. Leah Sandals, spokeswoman for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, says Cunningham died on Sunday at his Manhattan home of natural causes. He was 90.
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Rooted in the here and now ... Merce Cunningham (second from right) with his dancers in 1986. Photograph: AP
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Merce Cunningham in 1973, photo by Steven Mark Needham
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Merce Cunningham in Changeling, 1957. Costume by Rauschenberg. Photograph by Richard Rutledge
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Photograph Philippe Halsman, fragment, 1947
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ballet masters

The mediocre teacher tells,
The good teacher explains,
The superior teacher demonstrates,
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward

Natalia Dudinskaya, Vaganova Academy
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Yuri Grigorovich, Bolshoi Ballet, Photo by Paul B. Goode
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Merce Cunnigham and dancers of the Ballet de l'Opera national de Paris, 1973.
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Ecole de Dance de l’ Opéra National de Paris. via Bailarinas.kit