At Work In Merce Cunningham’s Playhouse

GIA KOURLAS, NY Times: Dance
Tue, 03/20/2018 - 11:47am

Dancers from the Stephen Petronio Company are learning Cunningham’s “Signals” — and learning that a sense of play is essential to it.

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