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Here is a book people have been waiting for.
Carolyn Brown, one of the founding members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, has published a memoir of her twenty years with the company, 1952-72.
Finally, that is. Apparently it took some 30 years to write it.
And it is a fascinating look into the early years of the avant garde in NY in the 50's and 60's -- the world around John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Earle Brown (Ms Brown's husband during this period), Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and the list goes on.
What makes the book most interesting is that it is a critical as well as adoring account of these people. You read about their good and bad points, and wonder about how much physical as well as psychological abuse dancers must suffer through. And all for art.
It's an excellent book, and a good example of why it's so important to keep good journals.
