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Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance

Book

Date:
2004
ISBN:
9780415965750
Format:
Paperback
Description:
304 p. : ill. (b&w) ; 15 x 23 cm.
Summary:
"Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance is the first complete critical overview of Cunningham's entire body of work, extending from his earliest solos through his most recent experiments with digital technology.  Copeland argues that Cunningham is the only choreographer whose work is central to one of the great sea-changes in the arts of the last fifty years: the movement away from the hot, anguished, deeply personal energies of abstract expressionism toward a much cooler, brainy, and impersonal mode of art-making." -- from the back of the book

Notably: Ted Shawn references on pages 71, 103, 258-59

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Routledge Press (published by)
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Modern Dance Biographies Books