Kerrie Hillman

We all know the Thomas Edison line: genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. But there are those who don’t seem to perspire at all. We often call those people savants. And some neuro-scientists are trying to understand where their talents come from.

We know that the North and South remember the Civil War differently. Studio 360’s Kerrie Hillman traveled to where the shooting started – Charleston, South Carolina – to see how history lives on for people there.

After piano music helped him recover from brain surgery, Dr. Richard Fratianne became a true believer in music therapy. In the burn unit at the Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center, Fratianne is measuring patients’ stress hormones during procedures to try to prove that music therapy reduces pain and anxiety. Produced by Kerrie Hillman.

The self-described ‘grandmother of performance art’ is at the center of the retrospective show ‘Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present’ at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Kerrie Hillman talks with Abramovic. From Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen.

Merce Cunningham, the legendary choreographer and performer, passed away on July 26th. In a 2002 interview, Cunningham describes what happened when he tried choreographing on a PC. Produced by Kerrie Hillman. (Originally broadcast March 23, 2002)