-
-
Philip Lionel Corner, name sometimes given as Phil Corner) is an American composer, trombonist, alphornist, vocalist, pianist, music theorist, music educator, and visual artist, born
-
Yvonne Rainer, is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, born
-
Malcolm Goldstein, is an American-Canadian composer, violinist and improviser, born
-
Trisha Brown, born
-
Cornish School of Fine Arts
-
soloist in the Martha Graham Dance Company
-
El Penitente
-
Lucinda Childs, American postmodern, born
-
Meredith Jane Monk, is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer, born
-
'Appalachian Spring' and 'Root of an Unfocus'
-
Presented first solo show
-
John Cage and Cunningham presented a program of six solos
-
‘Mysterious Adventure’
-
‘The Seasons’
-
Formed the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
-
Taught at Martha Nishitani's studio in the Seattle's University District
-
Trisha Brown, participated in an experimental workshop devoted to improvisation at the studio of Anna Halprin
-
Monk appeared at the Actor's Playhouse
-
Judson Church became the home for dance that differed from conventional performances
-
Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer, Brown moved to New York to study composition with Robert Dunn, who taught a class at Merce Cunningham's studio
-
Rainer approached the Reverend Al Carmines with dancers
-
‘Gold Medal for Choreographic Invention’
-
Performance at the Seattle Center Playhouse, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
-
‘Belgrade International Theater Festival Award’
-
Seattle's Bumbershoot festival
-
Named one of 20 featured "Creative Thinkers" in a major exhibit at the Pacific Science Center
-
Inducted as an Honorary Member into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
-
Kennedy Center Honoree, Washington DC
-
MacArthur Fellowship
-
Awarded the Kennedy Center Honors and a MacArthur Fellowship
-
British Laurence Olivier Award
-
Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, France
-
National Medal of Arts, Washington DC
-
National Medal of Arts
-
Inducted into the Hall of Fame at the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, New York
-
Inducted into the ‘National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame’ in Saratoga Springs, NY.
-
Honored with the Nellie Cornish Arts Achievement Award
-
Seattle residency funded by the University of Washington World Dance Series
-
Cunningham's company premiered Installations, with music by Trimpin and a video installation by Elliot Caplan, at Meany Hall
-
Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Lifetime Achievement
-
‘The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize’ and named a ‘Living Legend’
-
Became an Officier of the Légion d'Honneur, France
-
Praemium Imperiale, Tokyo
-
Japan’s Praemium Imperiale
-
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Cornish School of Fine Arts
-
Merce Cunningham Dance Company website began offering "Mondays With Merce,"
-
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Awar
-
Merce Cunningham's 90th birthday, his company premiered his latest work, "Nearly Ninety," at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
