Dance

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Dancers, choreographers, initiatives[edit]

Publications[edit]

  • John Percival, Experimental Dance, London: Studio Vista, 1971; New York: Universe Books, 1971, 160 pp.
  • Jill Johnston, Marmalade Me, New York: Dutton, 1971; new ed., exp., University Press of New England, 1998. [1]
  • Carolyn Brown, Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007, 645 pp. Brown’s memoir of her years with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from the early 1950s to when she left in the 1970s. In addition to its close connection to Cage, the company worked with David Tudor, Earle Brown (Carolyn’s husband), Christian Wolff, Robert Rauschenberg, and the rest of the New York Schools of both composers and abstract expressionists.
  • André Lepecki (ed.), Dance, London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2012, 240 pp.
  • Cosmin Costinaş, Ana Janevski (eds.), Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? The New Performance Turn, Its Histories and Its Institutions, Hong Kong: Para Site, and Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2017, 224 pp. [2] [3]
  • Jill Johnston, The Disintegration of a Critic, eds. Fiona McGovern, Megan Francis Sullivan, and Axel Wieder, Bergen: Sternberg, and Bergen: Bergen Kunsthall, 2019, 224 pp. Collection of thirty texts published in Johnston's weekly column for The Village Voice between 1960 and 1974. [4] [5]

Links[edit]

  • DanceMap, research project mapping Europe’s intangible dance heritage, 2025-2027.
  • Life Long Burning, a network of European institutions dedicated to contemporary dance and performance, 2023-2026.
  • Motion Bank, dance research project at Mainz University of Applied Sciences. *2010.
  • Moving Margins, an alter-archive and educational platform for diverse dance practitioners and researchers to exchange and elaborate upon the possible encounters of a variety of dance histories, 2019ff
  • (Non)Aligned Dance Archive (NADA), a digital database and developing archive of contemporary dance and performative practices and works from the post-Yugoslavian region.

See also[edit]

Performance art