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Chance and Circumstance.(Brief article)(Book review)
Carolyn Brown's clear-eyed, unsentimental memoir of twenty years as a principal dancer with Merce Cunningham's company is something rare--an eyewitness account of an artistic revolution. She joined the company in 1953, the year it was formed, at Black Mountain College. Its survival over the next decade was always in doubt. Financial crises, mostly hostile audiences, withering reviews (or none at all), and Cunningham's inability to communicate with the dancers on a personal level incited a ...
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