The Grand Union - Wendy Perron

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      The Grand Union

       ACCIDENTAL ANARCHISTS OF DOWNTOWN DANCE, 1970–1976

       WENDY PERRON

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

      Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2020 Wendy Perron

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Typeset in Miller and Magma

      by Tseng Information Systems, Inc.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      available upon request

      Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8195-7932-4

      Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8195-7966-9

      Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8195-7933-1

      5 4 3 2 1

      All photos in this volume appear with the kind permission of the photographer or the photographer’s representative.

      Frontispiece: GU at NYC Dance Marathon, 14th Street Y (Emanuel Midtown YM-YWHA), 1971. From left: Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Barbara Dilley, David Gordon. In background: Becky Arnold. Photo: James Klosty.

      “Front cover illustration: Grand Union at NYC Dance Marathon, 14th Street Y (Emanuel Midtown YM-YWHA), 1971. From left: Barbara Dilley, David Gordon, Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown. Visible in audience center, lying on the floor, Carolyn Brown; sitting behind her, James Klosty. Photo: Susan Horwitz, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.”

      This book is dedicated to Sally Banes because we lovedthe same things, and the Grand Union was one of them.

       CONTENTS

       Introduction / 1

       PART I: Seedbed

       1 Anna Halprin, John Cage, and Judson Dance Theater / 11

       INTERLUDE: Simone Forti’s Life in Communes / 25

       2 Only in SoHo / 28

       INTERLUDE: Philip Glass on John Cage / 46

       3 How Continuous Project—Altered Daily Broke Open and Made Space for a Grand Union / 48

       INTERLUDE: The People’s Flag Show / 63

       4 A Shared Sensibility / 67

       INTERLUDE: Richard Nonas’s Memory / 76

       PART II: The Gifts They Brought

       5 Barbara Dilley / 79

       6 Douglas Dunn / 84

       7 David Gordon / 89

       8 Steve Paxton / 96

       9 Trisha Brown / 103

       10 Nancy Lewis / 108

       11 Yvonne Rainer / 113

       12 Lincoln Scott and Becky Arnold / 118

       INTERLUDE: People Improvisation / 125

       PART III: Consolidating the Dare

       13 First Walker Art Center Residency, May 1971 / 131

       INTERLUDE: Trisha Brown on the Grand Union / 137

       14 Oberlin College Residency, January 1972 / 139

       INTERLUDE: Nancy Stark Smith on the Small Dance / 150

       15 The Dance Gallery Festival, Spring 1973 / 152

       INTERLUDE: Douglas Dunn on the “Selfish/Selfless Gamut” / 159

       PART IV: Narrative Unfoldings

       16 First LoGiudice Video, May 1972 / 165

       INTERLUDE: Dianne McIntyre and Sounds in Motion / 173

       17 Third LoGiudice Video, May 1972 / 179

       INTERLUDE: Paxton’s Clarifying Thoughts / 186

       18 Fourth LoGiudice Video: From Darkness to Light / 189

       INTERLUDE: Barbara Dilley: “An Imagistic World Explodes” / 198

       19 Gender Play and Iowa City, March 1974 / 200

       INTERLUDE: The Judith Dunn/Bill Dixon Improvisation Group / 220

       20 Second Walker Art Center Residency, October 1975 / 226

       INTERLUDE: Joan Evans and Central Notion Co. / 233

       PART V: Issues and Endings

       21 Public/Private, Real/Not Real / 243

       INTERLUDE: Leaderless? Really? / 253

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