Word: asan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WORK 1961-1973, a well-organized compilation of notes, essays and scripts by performer/choreographer Yvonne Rainer, is an extraordinary book. Piecing together the remains of 12 years of dance-making, Rainer tells the story of aSan Francisco woman who headed on a whim to New York at age 22 and took her first dance class there a year later. In 1961 Rainer presented her first pieces with the Judson Dance Theater, and became one of the prime movers behind that avant-garde set of dancers, painters and sculptors. The movement broke apart in 1964; Rainer continued to work...
...thousands of Saigon evacuees, a curious mixture of delicate old Vietnamese ladies, Cholon Chinese, middle-aged American contractors and former Saigon bar girls, their days began last week at some extraordinary sites, among them: "Tin City," a neat compound of one-story barracks at Andersen Air Force Base, and Asan, a rusting, long-abandoned Seabee camp...
Accommodations at Tin City were adequate. But those at Asan were squalid and run-down-and in fact had been condemned a short time before the refugees arrived. At first, four people were forced to share a single blanket on a cold stone floor; few, if any, were issued mattresses or pillows. The grass outside was littered with filth, and water dripped through many of the hallway ceilings. Toilet facilities were primitive and overcrowded...