QUOTE 52 from:
Cage, J. [2005] on Cunningham, [online]. Available from: http://www.merce.org/merce_bio.html; accessed on 2/2/05

'Merce Cunningham developed his own school of dancing and choreography, the continuity of which no longer relies on linear elements, be they narrative or psychological, nor does it rely on a movement towards and away from climax. As in abstract painting, it is assumed that an element (a movement, a sound, a change of light) is in and of itself expressive; what it communicates is in large part determined by the observer himself.

-- JOHN CAGE

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