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The Grand Union : accidental anarchists of downtown dance, 1970-1976 / Wendy Perron.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perron, Wendy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance companies--United States--History.
- Dance companies.
- Improvisation in dance--United States--History.
- Improvisation in dance.
- Modern dance--United States--History.
- Modern dance.
- Grand Union (Performance group).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (379 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "An exploration of the imaginative, improvisatory performance group that captivated young audiences in the period 1970-76"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Anna Halprin, John Cage, and Judson Dance Theater
- Only in SoHo
- How Continuous project
- altered daily broke open and made space for a Grand Union
- A shared sensibility
- Barbara Dilley
- Douglas Dunn
- David Gordon
- Steve Paxton
- Trisha Brown
- Nancy Lewis
- Yvonne Rainer
- Lincoln Scott and Becky Arnold
- First Walker Art Center residency, May 1971
- Oberlin College residency, January 1972
- The Dance Gallery Festival, Spring 1973
- First LoGiudice video, May 1972
- Third LoGiudice video, May 1972
- Fourth LoGiudice video : from darkness to light
- Gender play and Iowa City, March 1974
- Second Walker Art Center residency, October 1975
- Public/private, real/not real
- Getting into the act : artists, children, dogs, critics, and hecklers
- Grand Union as laboratory
- The unraveling, or, as the top wobbles
- Epilogue and three lingering moments.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780819579331
- 0819579335
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