Judson Dance Theater : performative traces / Ramsay Burt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burt, Ramsay, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judson Dance Theater--History.

Judson Dance Theater.

Postmodern dance.

Modern dance.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Judson Dance Theater takes a fresh look at the radical, experimental dance presented during the early 1960s at Judson Memorial Church in downtown Manhattan. Ramsay Burt explores the new artistic agenda set by Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, and their fellow dancers, putting it in the context of developments in the visual arts. As well as following their subsequent careers, he traces how the ideas they proposed about the body and performative presence contributed to the development of experimental dance in Europe, for example in the work of Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and Jerome Bel.

Informed by recent work in dance studies and art history, this book is, without doubt, the finest assessment of the period so far and will appeal to students of dance history, theory, and practice, as well as anyone interested in the avant-garde arts.

Contents:

1 Introduction: transatlantic crossings 1

2 Cunningham, Judson, and the historical avant-garde 26

3 Minimalism, theory, and the dancing body 52

4 Allegories of the ordinary and particular 88

5 Before and after 1968: dance, politics, and the avant-garde 116

6 Repetition: Brown, Bausch, and De Keersmaeker 138

7 Traces of intimacy and relationless relations 162

8 The Judson tradition at the start of a new century 186.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-224) and index.

ISBN:

0415975743

9780415975742

0415975735

9780415975735

OCLC:

63679983

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