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Democracy's Body

Judson Dance Theater 1962 - 1964
Author: Search for this author Banes, Sally
Statement of Responsibility: Sally Banes
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: 1995
Publisher: Durham [u. a.], Duke Univ. Press
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Author: Search for this author Banes, Sally
Statement of Responsibility: Sally Banes
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: 1995
Publisher: Durham [u. a.], Duke Univ. Press
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ISBN: 0-8223-1399-5
Description: 2. print, XVIII, 270 S.
Tags: Tanztheater; USA; Postmoderne; Avantgarde; Brown, Trisha; Paxton, Steve; Cage, John; Postmodernism; Dance Theatre
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Language: Englisch
Footnote: 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.
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