This publication (156 pages, about 140000 words) includes a selected Chinese translation of writings and essays on Steve Paxton's early work, from Judson Dance Theater era to the birth of Contact Improvisation, 1961 to 1969.
For more information in Chinese, please click here.
Articles includes:
Steve Paxton's Early Work before Contact Improvisation: 1961-1969
Steve Paxton's Early Work：Proxy(1961)
Steve Paxton's Early Work：Flat(1964)
Daniel Lepkoff: Extraordinarily Ordinary and Ordinarily Extraordinary
Steve Paxton talks about Flat(1964)
Steve Paxton's Early Work：Word Words and Music for Word Words(1963)
Steve Paxton's Early Work：English
Steve Paxton's Early Work：Afternoon (a forest concert)(1963)
Stephen Petronio talks about Jag Vill Gärna Telefonera
Steve Paxton talks about A second version(1967)
Steve Paxton: The Inflatables in the Age of Plastic
Lou Forster: PPMS
Lisa Kraus: Thoughts about Steve Paxton on viewing four of his dances at Dia:Beacon
Julie Perrin: Our bodies are not ready-mades The Ordinary in Steve Paxton’s Dance Pieces from the 1960s
Bojana Cvejić: A Physical Quest for Natural Rights
Jody Oberfelder: Observations Learning Steve Paxton's Early Works
Wendy Perron: What Was Judson Dance Theater, Who Was Against It, and Did It Ever End?
Sally Banes: Choreographic Methods of the Judson Dance Theater
Steve Paxton on Judson Dance Theater
Gift: Cage, Cunningham and the Modern Dance Mutants by Steve Paxton
Steve Paxton: As Far As We Can See
Alastair Macaulay interviews Steve Paxton on Merce Cunningham
Trance Script: Judson Project Interview with Steve Paxton conducted by Nancy Stark Smith
Excerpt from Robert Dunn’s journal writings
Judson Church & Its Dance Critics by George Jackson
Recommended Books:
The Bride and the Bachelors by Calvin Tomkins, writings on Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Jean Tinguely, Robert Rauschenberg, and Merce Cunningham
Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp by Pierre Cabanne
Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History by Sara Sinclair
Magritte by Suzi Gablik
Trisha Brown: Choreography As Visual Art by Susan Rosenberg
Feelings Are Facts: A Life by Yvonne Rainer
Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists by
Kay Larson
Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years by David Vaughan
The Dancer and the Dance: Merce Cunningham in conversation with Jacqueline Lesschaeve
Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham by Carolyn Brown
Greenwich Village 1963: Avant-garde Performance and the Effervescent Body by Sally Banes
Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance by Sally Banes
Democracy’s Body: Judson Dance Theater 1962-1964 by Sally Banes
Judson Dance Theater: Performative Traces By Ramsay Burt
The Disintegration of a Critic by Jill Johnston
Steve Paxton - Drafting Interior Techniques edited by Romain Bigé
