Watch Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance (2001) Online Free
A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.
Cast
Merce Cunningham, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Earle Brown, Meredith Monk, Richard Alston, Bénédicte Pesle, Joan Acocella, David Behrman, Carolyn Brown, Gavin Bryars, Gordon Mumma, Robert Rauschenberg
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