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CONTENTS

Introduction / 1

PART I: Seedbed

1 Anna Halprin, John Cage, and Judson Dance Theater / 11

INTERLUDE: Simone Forti’s Life in Communes / 25

2 Only in SoHo / 28

INTERLUDE: Philip Glass on John Cage / 46

3 How Continuous Project—Altered Daily Broke Open and Made Space for a Grand Union / 48

INTERLUDE: The People’s Flag Show / 63

4 A Shared Sensibility / 67

INTERLUDE: Richard Nonas’s Memory / 76

PART II: The Gifts They Brought

5 Barbara Dilley / 79

6 Douglas Dunn / 84

7 David Gordon / 89

8 Steve Paxton / 96

9 Trisha Brown / 103

10 Nancy Lewis / 108

11 Yvonne Rainer / 113

12 Lincoln Scott and Becky Arnold / 118

INTERLUDE: People Improvisation / 125

PART III: Consolidating the Dare

13 First Walker Art Center Residency, May 1971 / 131

INTERLUDE: Trisha Brown on the Grand Union / 137

14 Oberlin College Residency, January 1972 / 139

INTERLUDE: Nancy Stark Smith on the Small Dance / 150

15 The Dance Gallery Festival, Spring 1973 / 152

INTERLUDE: Douglas Dunn on the “Selfish/Selfless Gamut” / 159

PART IV: Narrative Unfoldings

16 First LoGiudice Video, May 1972 / 165

INTERLUDE: Dianne McIntyre and Sounds in Motion / 173

17 Third LoGiudice Video, May 1972 / 179

INTERLUDE: Paxton’s Clarifying Thoughts / 186

18 Fourth LoGiudice Video: From Darkness to Light / 189

INTERLUDE: Barbara Dilley: “An Imagistic World Explodes” / 198

19 Gender Play and Iowa City, March 1974 / 200

INTERLUDE: The Judith Dunn/Bill Dixon Improvisation Group / 220

20 Second Walker Art Center Residency, October 1975 / 226

INTERLUDE: Joan Evans and Central Notion Co. / 233

PART V: Issues and Endings

21 Public/Private, Real/Not Real / 243

INTERLUDE: Leaderless? Really? / 253

22 Getting into the Act: Artists, Children, Dogs, Critics, and Hecklers / 260

INTERLUDE: Musings on Nothingness / 268

23 Grand Union as Laboratory / 273

INTERLUDE: Dancing with Trisha / 290

24 The Unraveling, or, As the Top Wobbles / 294

Epilogue and Three Lingering Moments / 302

APPENDIX A: Chronology of Grand Union Performances and Residencies / 311

APPENDIX B: Partial Playlist / 313

Acknowledgments / 317

Notes / 321

Selected Bibliography / 357

Index / 361