1. From Graham to Cunningham: an unsentimental education -- 2. Portrait of the artist as a Jung man -- 3. Beyond the ethos of abstract expressionism -- 4. The limitations of instinct -- 5. Contemporary Classicism: rediscovering ballet -- 6. Primitive mysteries -- 7. The sound of perceptual freedom -- 8. Cunningham, Cage, and collage -- 9. Dancing for the digital age -- 10. Rethinking the thinking body: the gaze of upright posture -- 11. Modernism, Postmodernism, and Cunningham -- 12. Fatal abstraction: Merce Cunningham in the age of identity politics -- 13. Dancing in the aftermath of 9/11.
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