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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Seedbed
1 Anna Halprin, John Cage, and Judson Dance Theater
Interlude: Simone Forti’s Life in Communes
2 Only in SoHo
Interlude: Philip Glass on John Cage
3 How Continuous Project—Altered Daily Broke Open and Made Space for a Grand Union
Interlude: The People’s Flag Show
4 A Shared Sensibility
Interlude: Richard Nonas’s Memory
Part II: The Gifts They Brought
5 Barbara Dilley
6 Douglas Dunn
7 David Gordon
8 Steve Paxton
9 Trisha Brown
10 Nancy Lewis
11 Yvonne Rainer
12 Lincoln Scott and Becky Arnold
Interlude: People Improvisation
Part III: Consolidating the Dare
13 First Walker Art Center Residency, May 1971
Interlude: Trisha Brown on the Grand Union
14 Oberlin College Residency, January 1972
Interlude: Nancy Stark Smith on the Small Dance
15 The Dance Gallery Festival, Spring 1973
Interlude: Douglas Dunn on the “Selfish/Selfless Gamut”
Part IV: Narrative Unfoldings
16 First LoGiudice Video, May 1972
Interlude: Dianne McIntyre and Sounds in Motion
17 Third LoGiudice Video, May 1972
Interlude: Paxton’s Clarifying Thoughts
18 Fourth LoGiudice Video: From Darkness to Light
Interlude: Barbara Dilley: “An Imagistic World Explodes”
19 Gender Play and Iowa City, March 1974
Interlude: The Judith Dunn/Bill Dixon Improvisation Group
20 Second Walker Art Center Residency, October 1975
Interlude: Joan Evans and Central Notion Co.
Part V: Issues and Endings
21 Public/Private, Real/Not Real
Interlude: Leaderless? Really?
22 Getting into the Act: Artists, Children, Dogs, Critics, and Hecklers
Interlude: Musings on Nothingness
23 Grand Union as Laboratory
Interlude: Dancing with Trisha
24 The Unraveling, or, As the Top Wobbles
Epilogue and Three Lingering Moments
Appendix A: Chronology of Grand Union Performances and Residencies
Appendix B: Partial Playlist
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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