Foreword / Olga Viso

Acknowledgments / Fionn Meade

Merce Cunningham and Westbeth / David Vaughan

Collaborators. John Cage

Morris Graves

Robert Rauschenberg

Jasper Johns

David Tudor

Takehisa Kosugi

Nam June Paik

Robert Morris

Bruce Nauman

Charles Atlas

Rei Kawakubo

Black Mountain College

Essays. Root of an unfocus / Fionn Meade

A May-December romance?: time and collaboration in The seasons / Juliet Bellow

Antic meet triptych / Claudia La Rocco

A medium for engagement: on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Events / Hiroko Ikegami

Color should travel: Frank Stella's Scramble / Mary L. Coyne

Not so much a program of music as the experience of music / Benjamin Piekut

Blossoming of the bride: on Walkaround time / Carlos Basualdo

Between us: friendship in Channels/Inserts / Kelly Kivland

Four events that have led to large discoveries (about Merce Cunningham) / Douglas Crimp

Ocean / Philip Bither

Dancing for the digital age: Cunningham's Biped / Roger Copeland

Variations V (1965) / Merce Cunningham

Interviews. Legacy and forward motion: interviews with Common time commissioned artists / Philip Bither

An interview with Beth Gill / Danielle Goldman

An interview with Maria Hassabi / Aram Moshayedi

An interview with Charles Atlas, Rashaun Mitchell, and Silas Riener / Victoria Brooks

Chronology. A labyrinth with no exits: a chronology of Merce Cunningham and his collaborators / Mary L. Coyne

Artist texts. Notation (1968) / Merce Cunningham

Space, time and dance (1952) / Merce Cunningham

[The new school] (Early 1960s) / John Cage

The Cage class (1991) / Bruce Altshuler

2 pages, 122 words on music and dance (1957) / John Cage

A view of 9 evenings: theatre & engineering (1967) / Simone Forti

Judson days (1962) / Robert Ellis Dunn

Cunningham and his dancers

conversation with Carolyn Brown, Douglas Dunn, Viola Farber, Steve Paxton, Marianne Preger-Simon, Valda Setterfield, and Gus Solomons Jr (1987) / David Vaughan (moderator)

Four events that have led to large discoveries (1994) / Merce Cunningham

Portfolios. Costumes from the Walker Art Center MCDC Collection

Choreography in focus / Fionn Meade

Reference. Appendix I. Merce Cunningham choreography

Appendix II. Dances for camera

Appendix III. Dancers

Appendix IV. Composers

Appendix V. Visual artists and designers.