Those who love the ballet will simply be enraptured. At the end of Merce Cunningham's dance called Interscape , there is an entrance. Out from the wings steps lovely Jeannie Steele, now the company's senior female. She walks out alone across the stage and stops, as if waiting for something or someone, and right there, in media res, the dance is over. Along for the ride is Robert Rauschenberg, who in the middle of the last century was the first artistic director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and is still, from time to time, its scenic artist.
Dancers come and go, appear and disappear.
How grand , you think, Merce and Bob, still crazy after all these years . Nancy Dalva's essays appear in the magazine 2wice. All rights reserved.