Introduction : Sources of post-modern dance -- Simone Forti : dancing as if newborn ; Animal stories -- Yvonne Rainer : the aesthetics of denial ; Chart from "A quasi survey of some 'minimalist' tendencies in the quantitatively minimal dance activity midst the plethora, or an analysis of Trio A" -- Steve Paxton : Physical things ; Satisfyin' lover -- Trisha Brown : Gravity and levity ; Skymap -- David Gordon : The ambiguities ; Response -- Deborah Hay : The cosmic dance ; Excerpts from The grand dance -- Lucinda Childs : The act of seeing ; Street dance -- Meredith Monk : Homemade metaphors ; Notes on the voice -- Kenneth King : Being dancings beings ; From Print-Out -- Douglas Dunn : Cool symmetries ; "Talking dancing" -- The Grand Union : The presentation of everyday life as dance ; Q & A -- Photographs by Robert Alexander -- Chronology.
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