Democracys Body offers a lively; detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theater--a popular center of dance experimentation in New Yorks 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 Cunninghams 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 Baness 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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