The Place of Dance. Andrea Olsen

All this exact training and dance stylization cannot abstract a body into a nonentity. A person is going to be revealed. […] Vanity, generosity, insecurity, warmth are some traits that have a way of coming into view. This is especially true of the kind of dance that, instead of representing specific characters, features dancing itself.

      —Paul Taylor

      Merce Cunningham and Carolyn Brown Crises (1960) Costumes: Robert Rauschenberg First performed at the 13th American Dance Festival

       Photograph © John Wulp (1968), courtesy of the Merce Cunningham Trust