Merce Cunningham; The Modernizing of Modern Dance
Editorial Reviews
Review
""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
Book Description
Merce Cunningham is a complete study of the life and work of this seminal choreographer/dancer. More than just a biography, Copeland explores Cunningham's life story against a backdrop of an entire century of developments in American art.
Merce Cunningham; The Modernizing of Modern Dance
Merce Cunningham; The Modernizing of Modern Dance,Roger Copeland,Routledge,0415965756,Biography,Choreographers,Cunningham, Merce,Dance - Modern,Dancers,General,Modern dance,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,United States,Biography: general,Contemporary dance,Cultural studies
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