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Merce Cunningham Studio maintains a running archive of all Merce Cunningham performances and related materials. The archive is housed on the 2nd floor of 55 Bethune Street. The archive includes photographs, drawings, film, video, and tape. Use the achive form to request or submit material. Desktop Wallpapers Put Merce on your desktop! Wallpapers are all available in 800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200, or 1920x1200. Learn more in Desktop Wallpapers. A Living Archive When Merce Cunningham opened a studio of his own in December 1959, in the Living Theater building, at the corner of Sixth Avenue and 14th Street, he asked me to come and work for him as studio administrator. (I had been taking his class for some time, in the studio he rented at Dance Players.) I began to organize the records of the company's history, first by putting all the programs of performances in chronological order. Cunningham usually brought programs back with him from tours, and in time-honored fashion tossed them into a cardboard box. Some gaps were filled by Carolyn Brown, who was rather more systematic. From this I was able to compile a checklist of Cunningham's works. From then on I tried to keep these records up to date. When I went on tour with the company, as I did from time to time, I collected programs and clippings myself. Learn more in A Living Archive. Image Galleries View the Merce Cunningham & Flickr™ Image Galleries. Here you will find all the best MCDC images from performances around the world. Learn more in Image Galleries. If you have a photo that you would like to submit to be included in the galleries, please email it to galleries@merce.org. The Complete Chronology For your reference we are offering the complete Chronology of Merce Cunningham Repertory. This includes works that date back to 1942 when Merce danced Seeds of Brightness. Learn more in complete chronology. Contact Info DAVID VAUGHAN, Archivist, has danced, sung, acted, and choreographed in London, Paris, on and off Broadway, in American regional theaters, in film, television, ballet and modern dance companies, and cabaret. He is the author of Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years (Aperture, 1997) and of Frederick Ashton and his Ballets (revised edition, Dance Books, 1999). At the Dancing in the Millennium Conference in Washington DC in July 2000, he received the 2000 CORD (Congress on Research in Dance) Award for Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research, and in September 2001 he received a New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) for sustained achievement. 212.255.8240 x29

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