Lincoln Kirstein, Ballet: Bias & Belief. Ed. Nancy Reynolds. New York: Dance Horizons, 1983. 458 pp. $25. - Sally Banes. Democracy's Body: Judson Dance Theater 1962–1964. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983. 270 pp. $39.95.

1987 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-100
Author(s):  
Susan Allene Manning
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Dance Theater ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
Judson Dance Theater

Judson Memorial Church and the intersections between happening and dancing

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanitsa Fendulova ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Marcel Duchamp ◽  
Robert Rauschenberg ◽  
Robert Morris ◽  
Dance Theater ◽  
Merce Cunningham ◽  
The Many ◽  
Judson Dance Theater

The article examines a short excerpt from the New York scene, namely the period around 1959–1963 in the context of the environment, happening, dance pieces and draws attention to the leading influences of Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham. We are focusing on the gravitating artists’ circles around the Judson Memorial Church and some of their distinct practices and centers. Among the many, we consider the Reuben Gallery, Judson Gallery, Judson Dance Theater, and artists such as Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Morris, Simon Forti, Carolee Schneemann, Robert Rauschenberg. The text does not aim to provide a complete overview of Judson Dance Theater or the artists` practices, but rather to consider some of their common influences in their period of formation. We will bring the environment and the happening under their contradictions and variability and will consider the first generation of dance reformers at Judson Dance Theater as an influential force for involving visual artists in intermediate zones.

Rainer, Yvonne (1934--)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Miller
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Modern Dance ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Dance Theater ◽  
Postmodern Dance ◽  
Classical Ballet ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Judson Dance Theater ◽  
Functional Task

Yvonne Rainer is a key figure of both American postmodern dance and avant-garde feminist cinema. Rainer was a founding member of New York City’s Judson Dance Theater, a hub of postmodern dance experimentation in the 1960s. In her choreography, Rainer rejected the spectacle, virtuosity, and drama exhibited by classical ballet and modern dance, choosing instead to present functional, task-like, neutral movement. Her approach to choreography, which refused to provide easy pleasure, is demonstrated in her "No Manifesto" (1965). Between 1966 and 1969, Rainer began to experiment with film, creating several short works that play with the antihumanist idea that bodies can be equated with objects. In the 1970s Rainer turned her attention exclusively to feature-length experimental filmmaking. Her films in the 1970s and 1980s are works of bricolage that use radical juxtapositions of sound and imagery to create experiences of discontinuity that challenge conventional narrative cinematic structures. Rainer’s first feature-length film, The Lives of Performers (1972), blends fiction and reality by including rehearsal footage from previous dance works, and featuring several dancers from her company, Grand Union, as characters in the film. Rainer’s early films have been described as almost structuralist, owing their inspiration to filmmakers such as Maya Deren, Hollis Frampton, and Andy Warhol.

Dance with Camera

2016 ◽  
pp. 22-44
Author(s):  
Jenelle Porter
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Recording Device ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Dance Theater ◽  
Hollywood Musicals ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Judson Dance Theater

“Dance with Camera” explores art works in film, video, and photography from the advent of cinema. Beginning in the 1960s, associations between dancers, filmmakers, musicians, and visual artists flourished at Judson Dance Theater in downtown New York. The interdisciplinary practices explored there influenced the way works discussed in this text use an imagery of dance that threads through Hollywood musicals, avant-garde cinema, postmodern dance, and MTV video. Dance movement is designed for the area prescribed by the camera’s frame; the ephemerality of live performance is fixed in time, and close-ups bring us in proximity to the dance, or in some cases, perform as a partner in an unusual pas de deux. Editing techniques conjure dances impossible in real time. Finally, the camera is not merely a recording device, but serves as stage and audience simultaneously.

Democracy's Body: Judson Dance Theater 1962-1964

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Sally Sommer ◽  
Sally Banes
Keyword(s):  
Dance Theater ◽  
Judson Dance Theater

Restoration and Renewal? West Germany since 1945

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-497
Author(s):  
John Perkins
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
West Germany ◽  
First Year ◽  
German Studies ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
Modern Germany ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
Soziale Marktwirtschaft ◽  
Under Construction

A. J. Nicholls, The Bonn Republic: West German Democracy, 1945–1990 (London: Longman, 1997), 341 pp. ISBN 0–582–49230–0 PPR; 0582–4931–9 CSD. Hb £44. Pb £14.99.Gerhard A. Ritter, Über Deutschland: Die Bundesrepublik in der deutschen Geschichte (Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 1998), 303 pp., DM 39 80, ISBN 3–406–44039–8.Rebecca L. Boehling, A Question of Priorities: Democratic Reforms and Economic Recovery in Postwar Germany, Monographs in German History 2 (Providence RI and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996). 301 pp., IBSN 1–571–81035–8.Anne Sa'adah, Germany's Second Chance: Trust, Justice, and Democraticization (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998). 352 pp., £24.95, ISBN 0–674–35111–8.Volker Hentschel, Ludwig Erhard, die ‘Soziale Marktwirtschaft’ und das Wirtschaftswunder: Histo-risches Lehrstück oder Mythos. (Bonn: Bouvier Verlag, 1998), 95 pp., IBSN 3–416–02761–2.Robert G. Moeller, ed., West Germany under Construction: Politics, Society, and Culture in the Adenauer Era (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997). 462 pp., IBSN 0–472–09648–6 (hb), 0–472–06648–X (pb.). Peter James, ed., Modern Germany (London & New York: Routledge, 1998), 220 pp., IBSN 0–415–15034–5.For those who for whatever reason acquire an interest, the study of Germany since 1945 has to begin somewhere. It is hard to conceive of a more elementary introduction than that edited by Peter James and comprising the contributions of colleagues in the Department of German at the University of Northumbria plus his own. Although ‘aimed at all those who have an interest in life and society in modern Germany’, it is basically an introductory text for first-year students of German Studies. According to the editor of the slim volume, ‘Clearly the text is not intended to be exhaustive’; although one of the contributions, according to the blurb, claims to provide an ‘in-depth treatment of Germany's coming to terms with its past’ - within sixteen pages!

Breaking at the Edges: Carolee Schneemann's Desires for Dance

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-173
Author(s):  
Danielle Goldman
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Dance Theater ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Judson Dance Theater

Abstract During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Carolee Schneemann primarily identified as a painter. But she was a keen and cutting observer of dance. This article considers Schneemann's audacious performance work for the Judson Dance Theater and reflects on its ongoing importance both at the time of her death and in a world forced apart by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

scholarly journals Teacher education

2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-278
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
Language And Education

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