Merce Cunningham and the Modernizing of Modern Dance

Merce Cunningham and the Modernizing of Modern Dance

by RogerCopeland (Author)

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 16 Dec 2003

ISBN 10: 0415965756
ISBN 13: 9780415965750

Media Reviews
Copeland's book about the sixty-year career of Merce Cunningham is also a brilliant sixty-year history of theater, dance, art, music and intellectual movements in America. . . ..
-Sally Sommer, Professor of American Dance Studies at Florida State University.
Examines the trajectory of Merce The Choreographer and places him just where I think he belongs--as a global artist of the twentieth century moving in all directions into the twenty-first..
-Valda Setterfield, Member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, 1964-1974
Copeland's book will bring joy to Cunningham partisans.
-Allan Ulrich, Dance Magazine
Author Bio
Roger Copeland is Professor of Theater and Dance at Oberlin College. He is coeditor of the widely used anthology What is Dance? His essays about dance, theater, and film have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Village Voice, and many other publications including The Encyclopedia of Dance and Ballet.