Lecture/Presentation:
Merce Cunningham + Hazel Larsen Archer at Black Mountain College
by David Vaughan
Monday, June 26, 7:00 p.m.
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
56 Broadway, Downtown Asheville
$7 / $5 for BMCM+AC members and students with ID
David Vaughan, archivist for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and contributing author to the new publication Hazel Larsen Archer/Black Mountain College Photographer, will speak about Merce Cunningham, the dancer/composer, and Hazel Larsen Archer, the photographer, and their connections to Black Mountain College. This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Hazel Larsen Archer: Black Mountain College Photographer at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
David Vaughan has danced, sung, acted, and choreographed in London, Paris, on and off Broadway, in American regional theaters, in film, television, ballet and modern dance companies, and cabaret. He is the archivist of the Cunningham Dance Foundation and the author of Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years (Aperture, 1997) and of Frederick Ashton and his Ballets (revised edition, Dance Books, 1999). He was a member of the editorial board of the International Encyclopedia of Dance (Oxford, 1998). At the Dancing in the Millennium Conference in Washington DC in July 2000, he received the 2000 CORD (Congress on Research in Dance) Award for Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research, and in September 2001 he received a New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) for sustained achievement.
Image citations:
Merce Cunningham Dancing
Photo by Hazel Larsen Archer
