Wendy Perron's "Concepts in Performance," In The Soho Weekly News (1976-78). 1976-1978

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Wendy Perron's "Concepts in Performance," In The Soho Weekly News (1976-78). 1976-1978

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Perron wrote reviews for and focused on a range of experimental performance practices that flourished in New York during the late 1970s. Being knowledgeable of the historical circumstances under which experimental "performance art" emerged in New York, She was among the earliest critics to write about this then new genre combining thick description and critical analysis. This collection is comprised of clippings of articles Perron wrote for from 1976-1978. The Soho Weekly News The Soho Weekly News

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Wendy Perron is a teacher, writer and choreographer. She started her career as a choreographer and dancer in New York in the early 1970s. She was a member of the Trisha Brown Company from 1975 to 1978 and danced for such choreographers as: Kenneth King, Rudy Perez, Sara Rudner, and Twyla Tharp, among others. She formed and operated the Wendy Perron Dance Company from 1983 from 1994. Since the 1970's, she has taught various aspects of dance at Princeton, NYU, City College of New York, and Rutgers...