I have a new article in the Winter issue of Notre Dame Magazine, which is now available. Click here to see my piece about the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s return to Notre Dame before disbanding. Here’s a brief excerpt:

Wrapped in a skin-tight, light blue costume, the young dancer contorts his body in a series of complex phrases that have become synonymous with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

The strain of flesh pressing against wood can be heard from the balcony as Madoff stretches his foot across the stage in the opening solo of “Suite for Five,” the same piece Cunningham himself first danced some 55 years earlier at Notre Dame’s Washington Hall.

It’s no coincidence that this piece, originally titled “Suite for Five in Space and Time,” was chosen to open the program performed November 10-12 at Notre Dame’s Marie P. DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC) in the final weeks of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s two-year Legacy Tour.