Contemporary Dance

A topic within Dance, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.

Reading on Contemporary Dance

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Chance Conversations: An Interview with Merce Cunningham and John Cage

Merce Cunningham & John Cage (Walker Art Center)

Cunningham and Cage explain choreographing and composing by chance procedure rather than by intention, arguing that removing personal habit from the decision opens movement and sound to possibilities neither would have chosen.

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Performing Arts · Dance

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Book2020

Pina Bausch's Dance Theater: Tanztheater as a Practice of Translation

Gabriele Klein

Draws on ethnographic study of Tanztheater Wuppertal's international co-productions to argue that Bausch's choreographic legacy works as a continual practice of translation across cultures and generations rather than a single fixed style.

228 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026

Performing Arts · Dance

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Reading on Contemporary Dance

Chance Conversations: An Interview with Merce Cunningham and John Cage

Pina Bausch's Dance Theater: Tanztheater as a Practice of Translation

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