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Merce Cunningham MinEvent

Performed by Ohio State Department of Dance Students

Six dancers in white bodysuits perform a contemporary dance routine on stage with a green background.
Feb 19, 2026 5:30 PM
Performance Space

Free for all audiences with ticket

If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Visit our Accessibility page to learn more.

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Join us to experience this unique, site-responsive performance of Merce Cunningham choreography by students from the Department of Dance.

Choreographer Merce Cunningham invented and regularly utilized a performance format known as an Event or MinEvent in which excerpts from the company’s vast repertoire of dances are combined in fresh, unexpected ways. Each MinEvent is unique and designed to suit the particular space and context in which it is presented. 

As part of the Wex’s centennial celebration of Robert Rauschenberg and his collaborators, 12 students from Ohio State’s Department of Dance—under the direction of Daniel Roberts, associate professor in the Department of Dance and former Merce Cunningham Dance Company member—will explore multiple Cunningham pieces across several decades. (program approx. 30 mins.)

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Ohio State Department of Dance students performing a MinEvent in 2017, photo: Jennifer Zmuda.

Program Lineup

Scramble (1967)
TV Rerun (1972)
Changing Steps (1973)
Sounddance (1975)
Pond Way (1998)

"To allow for not so much an evening of dances as the experience of dance."
Merce Cunningham

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Program Support

Merce Cunningham’s choreography is performed with the permission and support of the Merce Cunningham Trust. Thanks to Ohio State’s Department of Dance for its support and partnership with this project.

PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY

Doris Duke Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY

Greater Columbus Arts Council

The Wexner Family

Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts

CampusParc

The Columbus Foundation

Every Page Foundation

Mellon Foundation

Axium Packaging

Nationwide Foundation

Michael and Anita Goldberg

Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease, LLP

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY

Joyce Shenk

Rebecca Perry and Ben Towle

Lachelle Thigpen

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Merce Cunningham MinEvent

Feb 19, 2026 5:30 PM EST
Performance Space

Free for all audiences with ticket

If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Visit our Accessibility page to learn more.

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