When Cornell senior dance lecturer Jim Self heard the news of Merce Cunningham’s death, he was unmoored. “As a teacher, choreographer and person, Merce has been very imprinted on me. I knew he wasn’t ...

I remembered my brain on overload in Merce's Westbeth studio, struggling to master that technique, stretching my leg forward-right-diagonal in a tondu while switching arms from second to fourth ...