Word: aeon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cunningham nearly lost his audience at intermission, though, by running a piece like Aeon first on the program. Aeon was long: over a half-hour of posturing that looked more like a technique class than a dance, with each dancer exercising in his own private sphere, hardly seeing, not caring, what his partners were doing. Cunningham's technique of "choreography by chance" picked the wrong random combination of numbers this time and came up with a series of stiff, unrelated movements that took rather more muscle than grace...
...audience responded to Aeon with scarcely more than polite applause. The combination of Cunningham and Cage was clearly too much for those who found themselves outside the dancers' world: they could share neither in the dehumanized music nor the mechanical dance. To the extent that Cunningham and Cage left their audience feeling like an out-group, they failed to communicate their...