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Author Perron, Wendy, author.

Title The Grand Union : accidental anarchists of downtown dance, 1970-1976 / Wendy Perron
Published Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (379 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary "An exploration of the imaginative, improvisatory performance group that captivated young audiences in the period 1970-76"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 16, 2020)
Subject Grand Union (Performance group)
SUBJECT Grand Union (Performance group) fast
Subject Dance companies -- United States -- History
Improvisation in dance -- United States -- History
Modern dance -- United States -- History
Dance companies
Improvisation in dance
Modern dance
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020020427
ISBN 9780819579331
0819579335