The precedent-setting Legacy Plan for the future of Merce’s work and MCDC is supported by an ongoing, $8-million campaign.  Help us celebrate Merce’s lifetime of artistic achievement and preserve his legacy for future generations by becoming a part of the Legacy:

    [Click to Donate] to the Legacy Campaign.

Support the Legacy Tour

Currently encompassing over 40 cities, the final, two-year Legacy Tour will offer audiences around the world a last chance to see Merce’s work performed by the company he personally trained.  Your support can be used to underwrite physical therapy for dancers on the tour, sponsor a specific Legacy Tour performance, or fund residency activities – like concerts, “Family Day” workshops, and master classes – at Tour destinations throughout the world. To support the multifaceted plan, the Cunningham Dance Foundation has launched an $8-million campaign.

Support Dancer Career Transition

Following the closure of MCDC at the end of the Legacy Tour, the Cunningham Dance Foundation will responsibly care for the artists who have dedicated their time and creative energy to realizing Merce’s vision.  Career transition resources will enable the dancers to enroll in classes, cover moving costs, or underwrite other career transition expenses.  Your support will help MCDC dancers choose their next steps without undue financial pressure. 

Sponsor a Dance Capsule

The Cunningham Dance Foundation is pioneering “Dance Capsules” to digitally preserve as many of Merce’s works as possible.  Each Dance Capsule will comprise documentation of the array of the creative elements that make a Cunningham dance: choreography, music, décor, costumes, lighting, and production notes.  Your support will help ensure that Merce’s work can be studied and enjoyed by future generations of dancers, scholars, and members of the public.         

Recognition and naming opportunities are available in all of these areas. 

We would be happy to work with you to recognize your contribution to the Legacy campaign. 

For more information, or to discuss ways to further designate your Legacy gift, contact Tambra Dillon, Director of Institutional Advancement, at (212) 255-8240 x25 or tambra@merce.org.

Leadership support for the Legacy campaign is generously provided by “Leading For the Future,” a program of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  Major support for the Legacy campaign has been provided by American Express, Bloomberg LP, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Elizabeth Frankel, Agnes Gund, the New York Community Trust – Wallace Special Projects Fund, the Prospect Hill Foundation, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, the SHS Foundation, Annette Merle-Smith, and the Board of Directors of the Cunningham Dance Foundation.