Democracy's body : Judson Dance Theater, 1962-1964 / Sally Banes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banes, Sally.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judson Dance Theater--History.

Judson Dance Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Democracy's Body offers a lively, detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theater--a popular center of dance experimentation in New York's Greenwich Village--and its place in the larger history of the avant-garde art scene of the 1960s. JDT started when Robert Dunn, a student of John Cage, offered a dance composition class in Merce Cunningham's studio. The performers--many of whom included some of the most prominent figures in the arts in the early sisties--found a welcome performance home in the Judson Memorial Church in the Village. Sally Banes's account draws on interviews, letters, diaries, films, and reconstructions of dances to paint a portrait of the rich culture of Judson, which was the seedbed for postmodern dance and the first avant-garde movement in dance theater since the modern dance of the 1930s and 1940s. Originally published in 1983, this edition brings back into print a highly regarded work of dance history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Robert Dunn's Workshop

2 "A Concert of Dance" at Judson Church

3 The Judson Workshop

4 The Plot Thickens

5 Dance in the Sanctuary and in the Theater

6 From Great Collective to Bus Stop

Notes

Illustrations

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1983.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-261) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822396567

0822396564

OCLC:

879378247