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Merce among the children: fourth graders from P.S. 234 talk about performing with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-APR-03 		Format: Online - approximately 998 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
While Merce Cunningham gives notes to his dancers after the first run-through of the day's rehearsal, I huddle with the eleven fourth-graders who will perform tonight [December 18, 2002] part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company Event in the lobby of American Express headquarters, adjacent to Ground Zero in New York. It is the location of "Rewarding Lives," an exhibit of portraits of extraordinary people including Cunningham, famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. The kids are vocal and articulate. I ask if they know how famous Merce Cunningham is. "I'd never heard of him before last year," volunteers Stella. "And when I tell everyone I'm in the show for a couple of minutes, they're like, `He's really famous!'"

At the start of the Event, the children enter with the dancers, all dressed in street clothes: The dancers' outfits are accented with colors and patterns; the kids wear their own all-black...

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