<B>Merce Cunningham in frame for Tate Modern performance</B> <BR>by Cameron Robertson for The Stage<P><BR>Tate Modern director Nicholas Serota is planning to create a new performance space at the modern and contemporary art gallery. <BR>The director is in talks with legendary American choreographer Merce Cunningham to stage a site-specific performance next year in the London gallery – the UK's second most popular tourist attraction after the British Museum. <BR>Cunningham's company is in the UK performing at the Barbican Centre and at The Place Theatre this autumn. It is understood that the Dance Umbrella festival approached Serota with a view to asking Cunningham to stage new work at the former Bankside power station. It is thought he will use the ramp area of the Turbine Hall. <P><A HREF="http://www.thestage.co.uk/paper/0228/0102.shtml" TARGET=_blank><B>click for more</B></A><BR>