Authors: Sally Banes, Sally Banes, Banes
ISBN-13: 9780822313991, ISBN-10: 0822313995
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: December 1993
Edition: 1st Edition
Democracy's Body offers a lively, detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theatera popular center of dance experimentation in New York's Greenwich Villageand 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 performersmany of whom included some of the most prominent figures in the arts in the early sistiesfound 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.
**** Reprint of the UMI Research Press edition originally published in 1983 (and distinguished by inclusion in BCL3). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
List of Illustrations | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | Robert Dunn's Workshop | 1 |
2 | "A Concert of Dance" at Judson Church | 35 |
3 | The Judson Workshop | 71 |
4 | The Plot Thickens | 107 |
5 | Dance in the Sanctuary and in the Theater | 131 |
6 | From Great Collective to Bus Stop | 165 |
Notes | 215 | |
Illustrations | 247 | |
Bibliography | 257 | |
Index | 263 |