The Rise and Fall and Rise of Modern DanceMcDonagh has "attempted to trace what appears to ... be the dominant concerns that link the work of the most exciting of the younger modern dance choreographers during the decade of the 1960s"--Preface. Profiles of individual choreographers are based in part on interviews and each concludes with a chronology of their work. |
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