Chance and circumstance : twenty years with Cage and Cunningham /
This long-awaited memoir is an intimate chronicle of a crucial era in modern dance: the story of Brown's own remarkable career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the two brilliant, iconoclastic, and forward-thinking artists at its center--Merce Cunningham and...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
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| 260 | |a New York : |b Alfred A. Knopf, |c 2007. | ||
| 300 | |a vi, 645 p., [40] p. of plates : |b ill. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 612) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Beginnings -- Black mountain -- New York: autumn 1952 -- New York: winter/spring 1953 -- Black mountain II -- New York: autumn 1953 -- On the move: 1954-1955 -- The first touring years -- The lean years -- The VW years -- The end of the beginning -- Connecticut: summer 1958 -- Europe, at last! -- "Success is dust!" -- Moving into the sixties -- Connecticut: summer 1960 -- Europe again: Venice 1960 -- Europe, continued: 1960 -- Troubling times: 1960-1961 -- Connecticut: summer 1961 -- Moving ahead -- Ups and downs -- Some ventures afield -- World tour / part I -- World tour / part II -- World tour / part III -- World tour / part IV -- World tour / part V -- Another beginning -- Full steam ahead -- Where from here? -- A professional company -- Some subsidy at last -- Mixed signals -- The beginning of the end -- Last chapter -- New York: spring 2004. | |
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