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...WORK OF Merce Cunningham is the starting point for any discussion of Laura Dean's theater of today's avant-garde dance. For Cunningham first pioneered an idea Dean and her contemporaries take for granted: that dance is an independent structure. Cunningham required his dancers to count an entire dance in their minds and muscles, not to rely on external cues. The con-centration involed is so demanding that a new performance style evolved as its inevitable consequence--the choreographer directed his dancers to present movement rather than project meaning. As a result, Cunningham audiences confront the countenances of dancers...
...Laura Dean is considered a "post-modern" choreographer. Although she and her peers carry forward many of Cunningham's ideas, they diverge from the master's path in significant ways. While Cunningham never directly collaborates with composers--occasionally his dangers do not hear the sound accompaniment until opening night--Dean for several years worked closely with musician Steve Reich, and now composes her own music. She's intersted in showing how dance and music connect at the deepest level: in the use of the physical self as instrument. Unlike Cunningham, who exploits the illusion of randomness by splaying dancers around...
FROM "NOTES ON CHOREOGRAPHY" BY LAURA DEAN...
That, to David, was the essence of Laura Dean...
...committee was originally formed by RUS last fall, but became independent to attract a larger and more diverse group of students, committee member Laura Lifsey '77 said yesterday...