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And then there was Merce: Carolyn Brown's awaited memoir.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: And then there was Merce: Carolyn Brown's awaited memoir.(Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham By Carolyn Brown. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 656 pages, with 24 pages of photographs.

"I had no intention of becoming a dancer," Carolyn Brown writes of herself as a young woman going off to Wheaton College. "Born to a dancing mother, having danced since I was three, I had rejected life as a dancer or dancing teacher. I wanted to write."

And so--after a great career onstage--she has written, and what a wonderful writer she turns out to be! The superlative dancer whom postmodern choreographer David Gordon christened "the prima modernina" has written a marvelous memoir. Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham is deeply personal, yet places her performing life in the larger cultural context of the time, which was the 1950s...

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