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Book Synopsis
The Judson Dance Theatre explores the work and legacy of one of the most influential of all dance companies, which first performed at the Judson Memorial Church in downtown Manhattan in the early 1960s. There, a group of choreographers and dancers--including future well-known artists Twyla Tharp, Carolee Schneemann, Robert Morris, Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainier, and others--created what came to be known as postmodern dance. Taking their cues from the experiments of Merce Cunningham, they took movements from everyday life--walking, running, gymnastics--to create dances that influenced not only future dance work but also minimalism in music and art, as well as the wedding of dance and speech in solo performance pieces.
Judson''s legacy has been explored primarily in the work of dance critic Sally Banes, in a book published in the 1980s. Although the dancers from the so-called Judson School continue to perform and create new works--and their influence continues to grow from the US to Eu
Table of Contents
List of illustrations, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction: transatlantic crossings, 2 Cunningham, Judson, and the historical avant-garde, 3 Minimalism, theory, and the dancing body, 4 Allegories of the ordinary and particular, 5 Before and after 1968: dance, politics, and the avant-garde, 6 Repetition: Brown, Bausch, and De Keersmaeker, 7 Traces of intimacy and relationless relations, 8 The Judson tradition at the start of a new century, Notes, Bibliography, Index
