Wendy Perron's "Concepts in Performance," in the SoHo Weekly News collection, 1976-1978.

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Wendy Perron's "Concepts in Performance," in the SoHo Weekly News collection, 1976-1978.

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The Fales Library's collection of Wendy Perron's "Concepts in Performance" column, published in The Soho Weekly News, spans from 1976-1978. In her column, Perron reviews a range of experimental performance practices that flourished in New York during the late 1970s. Among these are Steve Paxton's Contact Improvisation, Laurie Anderson's sound performances involving electric violin, Trisha Brown's Accumulation pieces, and Merce Cunningham's integrations of dance, music, and theatre. Other artists and ensembles whose performances Perron reviews are John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Michael Kirby, Jackson Mac Low, Meredith Monk, Yvonne Rainer, Stuart Sherman, Squat Theatre, and Robert Wilson.

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Perron, Wendy

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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...