– An Event danced by Merce and company in May, 1981, on a taut black dance floor stretched over Saltari’s wooden ballroom floor in the old Podany building on East Lake Street. Wow! Certain Twin Cities dancers accustomed to smiling while performing were miffed that Merce’s dancers didn’t smile. Gordon Mumma played a French horn with a bassoon reed. John Cage, David Tudor, and David Behrman each provided squeaks, squawks, and other danceable electro-sonics from individual work areas. – It must have been 1973, but it seems earlier: Merce’s company danced in the Walker’s galleries, the only time this has been allowed. Most of these appearances involved performances by his dance company, but a significant number were solo or duo gigs, lecture/dialogs, or master classes. The Walker’s website lists his name ten times on its exhaustive list of performances between 19 (see the link below to access this list) but that number far under-represents the actual number of appearances by Mr. No discussion of performing arts at Walker Art Center can begin without mentioning Merce Cunningham at the very top, first and foremost.
This is the second click link at the end of the article for the first. To mark the closing of the Walker for a year, we're running a series of articles by Richard Paske, musician and writer, about his experiences with the Walker performing arts programs.
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