Judson Dance Theater : performative traces / Ramsay Burt.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Introduction : transatlantic crossings -- 2. Cunningham, Judson, and the historical avant-garde -- 3. Minimalism, theory, and the dancing body -- 4. Allegories of the ordinary and particular -- 5. Before and after 1968: dance, politics, and the avant-garde -- 6. Repetition : Brown, Bausch, and De Keersmaeker -- 7. Traces of intimacy and relationless relations -- 8. The Judson tradition at the start of a new century.

"Judson Dance Theater takes a look at the radical, experimental dance presented during the early 1960s at Judson Memorial Church in downtown Manhattan." "Ramsay Burt explores the new artistic agenda set by Trish Brown, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, and the fellow dancers, putting it in the context of developments in the visual arts. As well as following their subsequent careers, he traces how the ideas they proposed about the body and performative presence contributed to the development of experimental dance in Europe, for example in the work of Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and Jerome Bel." "Informed by recent work in dance studies and art history, this book will appeal to students of dance history, theory, and practice, as well as anyone interested in the avant-garde arts."--BOOK JACKET.