From The Brooklyn Rail By Aileen Dowling

By the early 1960s, New York’s downtown dance scene had embraced the avant-garde—from John Cage’s indeterminacy and Merce Cunningham’s chance operations, to James Waring’s collage aesthetics. In 1962, a loose collective of dancers, visual artists, and composers banded together to form Judson Dance Theater in Greenwich Village. Revered for their steadfast pursuit of the everyday,