Democracy's Body: Judson Dance Theatre, 1962-1964

by Sally Banes

Book Overview

Democracy's Body offers a lively, detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theater--a popular center of dance experimentation in New York's 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 Cunningham's studio. The performers--many of whom included some of the most prominent figures in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822313995
• ISBN13: 9780822313991
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"