ABOUT THIS BOOK

The 1960s was a pivotal decade in dance, an era of intense experimentation and rich invention. In this volume an impressive range of dance critics and scholars examine the pioneering choreographers and companies of the era, such as Anna Halprin’s West Coast experiments, the innovative Judson Dance Theater, avant-garde dance subcultures in New York, the work of Meredith Monk and Kenneth King, and parallel movements in Britain. The contributors include Janice Ross, Leslie Satin, Noël Carroll, Gus Solomons jr., Deborah Jowitt, Stephanie Jordan, Joan Acocella, and Sally Banes.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Sally Banes is the Marian Hannah Winter Professor of Theater History and Dance Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her many books include Terpsichore in Sneakers, Dancing Women, Democracy’s Body, and Greenwich Village 1963. Andrea Harris is assistant professor of dance at the UW–Madison.

REVIEWS

"With the wave of interest Baryshnikov has cultivated in the 1960s, this seems exactly the right time to look again at the aesthetics and accomplishments of this era. And if I could choose any guide for this journey, it would be Sally Banes. She has claimed this fertile territory as her own, illuminating the dances of this era while meticulously grounding her discussion in American culture and the social turmoil of the 1960s."—David Gere, University of California, Los Angeles

"This thoughtful collection of essays edited by Sally Banes, the preeminent historian of U.S. dance at mid-century, looks back at that tumultuous decade from a multiplicity of new perspectives."—Lynn Garafola, Barnard College

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

Introduction

Banes, Sally

1.
Gulliver's Hamburger: Defamiliarization and the Ordinary in the 1960s Avant-Garde

Banes, Sally

2.
Anna Halprin and the 1960s: Acting in the Gap between the Personal, the Public, and the Political

Ross, Janice

3.
James Waring and the Judson Dance Theater: Influences, Intersections, and Divergences

Satin, Leslie

4.
The Philosophy of Art History, Dance, and the 1960s

Carroll, Noël

5.
Dance Quote Unquote

Johnston, Jill

6.
Dancing in New York: The 1960s

Solomons jr, Gus

7.
Monk and King: The Sixties Kids

Jowitt, Deborah

8.
One Route from Ballet to Postmodern

Perron, Wendy

9.
Radical Discoveries: Pioneering Postmodern Dance in Britain

Jordan, Stephanie

10.
Ballet Review's Beginnings: An Interview with Arlene Croce

Acocella, Joan
Banes, Sally

11.
PASTForward Choreographers' Statements

Brown, Trisha
Childs, Lucinda
Forti, Simone
Gordon, David
Hay, Deborah
Paxton, Steve
Rainer, Yvonne

Contributors

Index

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