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Room 1 

Merce Cunningham & Dance Company

DANCE PERFORMANCE

23rd International Festival of Contemporary Music
Dance performance with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, John Cage and David Tudor
Teatro La Fenice, 24 September 1960

Photos: Radford Bascome

DANCE PERFORMANCE

23rd International Festival of Contemporary Music
Dance performance with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, John Cage and David Tudor
Teatro La Fenice, 24 September 1960

Photos: Foto Film, Giacomelli

DANCE PERFORMANCE

23rd International Festival of Contemporary Music
Dance performance with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, John Cage and David Tudor
Teatro La Fenice, 24 September 1960

Photos: Foto Film

DANCE PERFORMANCE

23rd International Festival of Contemporary Music
Dance performance with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, John Cage and David Tudor
Teatro La Fenice, 24 September 1960

Photos: Foto Film

DANCE PERFORMANCE

23rd International Festival of Contemporary Music
Dance performance with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, John Cage and David Tudor
Teatro La Fenice, 24 September 1960

Photos: Giacomelli

DANCE PERFORMANCE

23rd International Festival of Contemporary Music
Dance performance with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, John Cage and David Tudor
Teatro La Fenice, 24 September 1960

Photo: Foto Film

DANCE PERFORMANCE

23rd International Festival of Contemporary Music
Dance performance with Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Brown, John Cage and David Tudor
Teatro La Fenice, 24 September 1960

Poster

PIAZZA SAN MARCO EVENT

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972

Poster
Photo: Ferruzzi

PIAZZA SAN MARCO EVENT

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972

Photo: Ferruzzi

PIAZZA SAN MARCO EVENT

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

PIAZZA SAN MARCO EVENT

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

PIAZZA SAN MARCO EVENT

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

PIAZZA SAN MARCO EVENT

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

PIAZZA SAN MARCO EVENT

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

PIAZZA SAN MARCO EVENT

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

PIAZZA SAN MARCO EVENT

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

PIAZZA SAN MARCO EVENT

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

PIAZZA SAN MARCO EVENT

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

PIAZZA SAN MARCO EVENT

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Piazza San Marco Event
Saint Mark’s Square, 14 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

CANFIELD

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Canfield
Teatro La Fenice, 11 September 1972

Poster
Photo: Ferruzzi

CANFIELD

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Canfield
Teatro La Fenice, 11 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

CANFIELD

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Canfield
Teatro La Fenice, 11 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

CANFIELD

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Canfield
Teatro La Fenice, 11 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

CANFIELD

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Canfield
Teatro La Fenice, 11 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

CANFIELD

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Canfield
Teatro La Fenice, 11 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

CANFIELD

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Canfield
Teatro La Fenice, 11 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

RAINFOREST - WINTERBRANCH - TV RERUN

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972

Poster
Photo: Ferruzzi

RAINFOREST - WINTERBRANCH - TV RERUN

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

RAINFOREST - WINTERBRANCH - TV RERUN

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

RAINFOREST - WINTERBRANCH - TV RERUN

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

RAINFOREST - WINTERBRANCH - TV RERUN

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

RAINFOREST - WINTERBRANCH - TV RERUN

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

RAINFOREST - WINTERBRANCH - TV RERUN

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

RAINFOREST - WINTERBRANCH - TV RERUN

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

RAINFOREST - WINTERBRANCH - TV RERUN

35th International Festival of Contemporary Music
Rainforest - Winterbranch - Tv Rerun
Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, 13 September 1972

Photos: Ferruzzi

Merce Cunningham’s presence in Venice, to which this exhibition bears witness, spanned over a decade (1960-1972) at a time in which dance was an integral part of a revolution that involved all the arts. A tireless experimenter, Cunningham pioneered many of the changes that were destined to reverberate through the new millennium.
The photographs displayed here celebrate some of the steps in his evolution: from choreographies that disrupted the frontality and centrality of the stage and created a thousand vanishing lines, to the use of random procedures, to the explosion of Events such as the one held in Saint Mark’s Square, which inaugurated the era of happenings and performances.

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