Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance

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Terpsichore in Sneakers This page intentionally left blank Terpsichore in Sneakers Post-Modern Dance Sally Banes withanew introduction Wesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut Published by Wesleyan University Press Middletown, CT 06459 Copyright © 1977,1978,1979,1987 by SallyBanes All rights reserved Printed in the United States ofAmerica 1 0 9 8 This book was first published by Houghton Mifflin Company First Wesleyan Paperback, 1987 Parts of this book have been previously published in Dance Scope, Dance Research Journal, Village Voice, Dance Magazine and ThePostmodern Moment,ed. Stanley Trachenberg(Greenwood Press). Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to use previously published material: Yvonne Rainer, Chart from "A Quasi Survey of Some 'Minimalist' Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or an Analysis of Trio A." Reprinted from YvonneRainer, Work 1963-73. (Halifax, Nova Scotia: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; New York: New York University Press, 1974), by permission of the author, Steve Paxton, "Satisfyin Lover,"Reprinted from 0 to9,no. 4 (1968), by permission of the author. LucindaChilds, "Street Dance," from Lucinda Childs: A Portfolio." Reprinted from Artforum 11Excerpt, reprinted by permission of the choreographer. Douglas Dunn, "Talking Dancing." Reprinted from James Klosty, Merce Cunningham (New York:Saturday Review Press, 1975), by permission of Douglas Dunn and E. P. Dutton. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Banes, Sally. Terpsichore in sneakers. Reprint. Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. With new introd. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Modern dance. I. Title. GV1783.B36 1987 793.3'2 86-7829 ISBN 0-8195-6160-6 (pbk.: alk. paper) Our steps are so easy and familiar to us that they never have the honor to be considered in themselves, and as strange acts. — Paul Valery Dance and the Soul This page intentionally left blank ...