Merce Cunningham : the modernizing of modern dance /
A complete study of the life and work of this seminal choreographerCunningham and his company remain active, with performances around the worldWill appeal to dance, theater, performance art, and American culture fans.
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| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Routledge,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. From Graham to Cunningham: an unsentimental education
- 2. Portrait of the artist as a Jung man
- 3. Beyond the ethos of abstract expressionism
- 4. The limitations of instinct
- 5. Contemporary Classicism: rediscovering ballet
- 6. Primitive mysteries
- 7. The sound of perceptual freedom
- 8. Cunningham, Cage, and collage
- 9. Dancing for the digital age
- 10. Rethinking the thinking body: the gaze of upright posture
- 11. Modernism, Postmodernism, and Cunningham
- 12. Fatal abstraction: Merce Cunningham in the age of identity politics
- 13. Dancing in the aftermath of 9/11.
