Sally Banes: Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance (1980/87)

“Sally Banes writes criticism with a dancer’s feel for dancing, a personal acquaintance with the choreographers she writes about, a solid knowledge of critical theory, and an awareness of the many relationships of post-modernism to the contemporary cultural context. Terpsichore in Sneakers is a first-rate contribution to our post-modern dance.

Banes restricts her discussion to ten choreographers: six members of Robert Dunn’s 1960-62 composition workshop (Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Trisha Brown, David Gordon, Deborah Hay, Simone Forti), all but the last of whom were early members of the Judson Dance Theater, three second-generation Judson choreographers (Meredith Monk, Kenneth King, Lucinda Childs), and Doug Dunn, who performed with Rainer, Paxton, Brown, and Gordon in the Grand Union.” (from the review by Milton H. Snoeyenbos, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1980)

Originally published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1980
Publisher Wesleyan University Press, 1987
With a new Introduction
ISBN 0819561606
311 pages

Commentary (André Lepecki, Dance Theatre Journal, 1999)

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