Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Roaratorio " review by Judith Mackrell

Barbican, LondonJohn Cage's score for Roaratorio (1983) comes with the subtitle An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake. And the last time he and the Cunningham company performed this work in Britain, it lived exuberantly up to its name. It was the Royal Albert Hall, 1984. And as the dancers danced " for 60 minutes, non-stop " Cage orchestrated the magnificent cacophony of his own score, which featured his own, singsong re…

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