Merce Cunningham’s Legacy Plan
Revisited is a series in which writers look back on a work of art they first encountered long ago. Here, Eugene Lim revisits the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s final performance.
Photo: © Daniel Arkham
CONAN: How do you obliterate space and time?
Mr. JONES: Well, you know, sometimes, when I’ve had one tequila too many and I’m lying on the floor, I feel pretty obliterated in space and time. No, but I don’t think that’s what [Merce] meant.
—Bill T. Jones remembering Merce Cunningham, on NPR.
On the few last nights of 2011, I saw a series of
