Everybody can dance — in praise of the JK Wedding Entrance Dance

A couple of days ago I wrote in praise of Merce Cunningham, who was one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th century, along with Martha Graham, that he taught me that imperfect bodies dance as beautifully and as meaningfully as perfect ones. I know people think it’s all motivational to say, “Anything worth …

Margaret took me to see Merce Cunningham

My late life partner, Margaret Ardussi, was a genius artist in water-based paints and loved opera, ballet and modern dance. In the fall of 1984, shortly after I flew her from Seattle, where she was visiting her parents, to Silver Spring to be my life partner, the love of my life, the most beautiful woman …