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Carolyn Brown is an American dancer and choreographer. She is best known for her work with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, which she joined in 1953 and remained with until her retirement in 1973. She was born on September 26, 1927 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Brown began her dance training at the age of five, studying with local teachers in Massachusetts. She attended the School of American Ballet in New York City, and then went on to study with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. She joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1953, and remained with the company until her retirement in 1973. Brown has choreographed works for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Joffrey Ballet, and the American Ballet Theatre. She has also taught at the Juilliard School, the Merce Cunningham Studio, and the Cunningham Dance Foundation. Brown has been honored with numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Dance Magazine Award, and a New York Dance and Performance Award. She is currently 96 years old.

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Occupation Dancer and choreographer
Age 97 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 26 September 1927
Birthday 26 September
Birthplace Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Nationality United States

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2007

In 2007, Brown published her memoir Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham, which tells the story of her career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the two artists at its center — Merce Cunningham and John Cage.

1973

Upon retirement in 1973 she took up teaching. She also continues to work with the Cunningham company as an artistic consultant. She is a member of the Cunningham Dance Foundation Board of Directors, and has worked as a freelance choreographer, filmmaker, writer, lecturer, and teacher. She has been awarded the Dance Magazine Award, five National Endowment for the Arts grants, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Dance Perspectives, Ballet Review, and the Dance Research Journal. She lives in Millbrook, New York.

1968

Her own choreography includes Car Lot (1968), As I Remember It, a solo in homage to Shawn (Jacob's Pillow, 1972), Bunkered for a Bogey (1973), House Party (1974), Circles (1975), and Balloon II (Ballet-Théâtre Contemporain, 1976).

1951

After attending a masterclass with Cunningham in Denver in 1951, she decided to pursue dance full-time and moved to New York to continue her studies at the Juilliard School. She also studied with Cunningham and became one of the founding members of his company, which was born at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the summer of 1953. She was the most important female dancer in Cunningham's company for the next twenty years and danced in 40 of his works, often collaborating with Cunningham and John Cage in the creative process. She created a role in Cage's Theatre Piece (1960) and on pointe in Robert Rauschenberg's first dance work Pelican (1963). A dancer of great purity and virtuosity, she was considered the ideal Cunningham interpreter.

1950

Coming from a dancing family in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Carolyn (Rice) Brown studied with her mother, Marion Rice in Fitchburg. Brown was a product of the Denishawn School and graduated in philosophy from Wheaton College in 1950.

1927

Carolyn Brown (born September 26, 1927) is an American dancer, choreographer, and writer. She is best known for her work as a founding member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

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