In their writings and performances, John Cage and Merce Cunningham captured the symptoms of the postwar world—the stimulus overload, the uncertainty of cause and effect, the dimming of idealism and the individual. Their example legitimized a new approach to making dances. After their breakthroughs of the 1950s, a theatrical dance no longer had to mean […]

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