Word: cages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Less than two weeks ago, indoor track coach Bill McCurdy would say nothing optimistic about his team's chances this year. But the Thinclads buried any remaining pessimism last night as they clobbered Brown 80-38 at Briggs Cage for their third straight...
...dancer in Martha Graham's company, broke away from his mentor in the late forties to form his own dance troupe in New York. At the same time Cunningham was involved in the artistic experiments at Black Mountain College, taking part in the first "happening" along with composer John Cage and working alongside writers such as Charles Olson and Robert Creeley (Olson once composed a prose choreography for Cunningham called "Apollonius of Tyana."). Cunningham is known for using chance methods in his choreography, even to the point where the flip of a coin would determine the next movement...
...John Cage, painters Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, and others pay special homage to Cunningham, attempting to understand him as a teacher, performer, collaborator and creator. They know in their bones--though Klosty is the only one so bold as to say so--that the gathering of artists, musicians and dancers around Cunningham in the fifties was as significant a group in the history of the arts as was Bloomsbury or Gertrude Stein's "charmed circle." After the second World War, the arts in New York took on a vitality and strength which Cunningham and his followers helped to create...
Some of the writers eschew straightforward prose for witty, self-consciously absurd jottings that don't give as much insight into Cunningham as into the ambience surrounding him. In "Where Are We Eating? And What Are We Eating?" John Cage catalogs the company's favorite haunts from Brownsville to Bombay. A typical snippet...
...writes with the most perspective and the most acceptance. She admits how difficult it is to work under Cunningham's aloofness, although she's thankful that his hands-off attitude forces his dancers to be "self-disciplined, self-critical, and self-moving." She describes how Cunningham adheres to John Cage's belief in rejecting all forms of subservience, and sympathizes with his uneasiness at shouldering responsibility for company members' spirits...