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Title: Dancing with Merce Cunningham
Author: Marianne Preger-Simon
Narrator: Kathleen Godwin
Format: mp3
Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
Release date: 10-22-24
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: Dance
Publisher's Summary:
Through her experiences in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Marianne Preger-Simon offers a rare account of exactly how Cunningham taught and interacted with his students. She describes the puzzled reactions of audiences to the novel non-narrative choreography of the company’s debut performances. She touches on Cunningham’s quicksilver temperament, lamenting his early frustrations with obscurity and the discomfort she suspects he endured in concealing his homosexuality and partnership with composer John Cageyet she celebrates above all his dependable charm, kindness, and engagement.
