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Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance By Roger Copeland. New York: Routledge, 2004. 304 pp. Illustrated. $28.95 (paper).
Thirty-five years of the author's Cunningham-watching and intense absorption in the artistic currents of his time have generated this searching and provocative assessment of the dance-choreographer's exalted place in the 20th-century pantheon. For Copeland, Cunningham remains not only the most controversial creative force in contemporary movement, but also the most misunderstood.
In repudiating the primitivist roots of much modern dance, Cunningham, claims Copeland, aligned himself with the cool, objective, ironic strain of abstraction that arose in the 1950s and flourished in the succeeding decades. Although in his dances he remains as indifferent to identity politics as he does to narrative structure and conventional collaboration, Cunningham's choreography more than that of his contemporaries, mirrors, in its apparent lack...
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