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Created page with "== Early Life == Merce Cunningham was born on April 16, 1919, in Centralia, Washington. His father was a lawyer, and his mother was a housewife. He was the second of three sons. Cunningham took his first dance classes in Centralia, studying tap and ballroom dance with a local teacher, Mrs. Maude Barrett. == Education == Cunningham attended the Cornish School in Seattle, where he first encountered the work of Martha Graham. He moved to New..."