{"id":1852,"date":"2009-07-28T06:04:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T13:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/merce-cunningham-gone\/"},"modified":"2009-07-28T10:01:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T17:01:39","slug":"merce-cunningham-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/28\/merce-cunningham-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Merce Cunningham Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.za\/News\/Article.aspx?id=1040572\" target=\"_blank\">from AFP via The Times South Africa<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Dance legend Cunningham dies<\/h1>\n<p><strong>AFP<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana; font-weight: normal; color: #474747\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2009\/07\/27\/mercecunningham460.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Merce Cunningham, the legendary New York-based choreographer who revolutionised modern dance, has died at age 90, his foundation said on Monday.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.thetimes.co.za\/photos\/2009\/03\/dance-umbrella-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dance Umbrella 2009 (Gallery)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;It is with great sorrow that we note the passing of Merce Cunningham, who died peacefully in his home last night of natural causes,&#8221; the Cunningham Dance Foundation and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement hailed Cunningham, saying he &#8220;revolutionized the visual and performing arts &#8211; not for the sake of iconoclasm, but for the beauty and wonder that lay in exploring new possibilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.za\/News\/Article.aspx?id=1040572\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal\">click to read at The Times SA<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal\"> ]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AFP via The Times South Africa Dance legend Cunningham dies AFP Merce Cunningham, the legendary New York-based choreographer who revolutionised modern dance, has died at age 90, his foundation said on Monday. Dance Umbrella 2009 (Gallery) &#8220;It is with great sorrow that we note the passing of Merce Cunningham, who died peacefully in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}