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Merce Cunninhamm Merce Cunningham is a choreographer, dancer, company director, and video/filmaker of modern dance. As a result of his varied education and love for dance, he was able to create a type of modern dance that many people have accepted. Mercier Philip Cunningham was born April 16, 1919 in Centralia, Washington. His first dance teacher, Madame Maude Barrett showed him her love of dance, which inspired him to continue with it, she was so excited about teaching dance, it was contagious. He attended Cornish School of Fine and Applied Arts in Seattle during 1937. There he met John Cage which he would later choreograph dances with. A couple years later, he was a member of the Martha Graham Dance Co. until 1945. Merce's first world tour was in 1964. During his lifetime, he also studied with George Balanchine at the American School of Ballet. The best way to describe Merce Cunningham's dance is, just as modern is an alternative to ballet, his dance is an alternative to traditional modern. He was once called "a revolutionary, an innovator and perhaps, the antithesis of traditional modern dance". Cunningham is also famous for creating dance, dancers, modern, cunningham, way, just, ballet, zone, traditional, things, pieces, piece, one, merce, groups, different, dancer, coast, years, work, thought, something, show, scenery, people, out, mulreaney, movement, feel, dances, costumes, come, before, almost,