Ramsay, Margaret Hupp: The Grand Union (1970 1976): An Improvisational Performance Group, New York, San Francisco, Bern 1991. Robert Morris,hg. Von Marcia Tucker, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1970 (Kat. inal performance Magnesium took place at Oberlin College in January Duets are typical; trios or larger groups are not impossible, but the more visation in duets, begun two years earlier with members of the Grand Union (1970 1976), after The totally improvisational company that the Grand Union improvisational dance group. While in The Grand Union, Dilley continued performing her own work in dance performances such as The Sapsuckersummer Dance series at Cornell Summer Dance Group (1970), Wonder Dances, performed in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Cambridge (1975), and To the Golden Gate Bridge, a performance piece from her dance series The Grand Union, the sixyear old improvisatory dance/ theater collective that will appear at the La Mama Annex from Thursday through Sunday, is generally thought of as a totally free, let it The Performa 07 festival took a break from live programming this week, presenting two evenings of early-postmodern dance recordings at Anthology Film Read "The Grand Union (7970 7976), an Improvisational Performance Group Margaret Hupp Ramsey Peter Lang Publishing Inc.: NY, 1991, 195pp., illustrated, 25, $$41.95, Dance Research" on DeepDyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. checking this box, you confirm that you have read and are agreeing to our terms of use regarding the storage of the data submitted through this form. improvisational performance group, which ended abruptly in 1976 (Hupp Ramsay. 1991, p. 57) writes that the members of Grand Union had more than one been disappointed Hupp Ramsay, M.(1991): The Grand Union (1970-1976). The Grand Union was an improvisational dance group based in New York City from 1970 to 1976. It grew out of Yvonne Rainer dance company, and her piece Continuous Project - Altered Daily. Rainer's sole authority as choreographer began to slip in early 1970 when the dancers, at her invitation, began to bring in their own materials for the piece. CWG is inspired and operates in the tradition of dance collectives like the Grand Union (1970-1976), Lower Left (1994-ongoing) and collaborative dance theater LIVE (2007-ongoing). However, our goal differs from these collectives on one fundamental level. In New York, Dunn began working with Yvonne Rainer and was a dancer with her company from 1968-1970. After completion of his studies with the Merce Cunningham studio, he was accepted into their professional company as a dancer from 1969-1973. In 1970 he became a member of the avant-garde improvisational group the The Grand Union until 1976. [En] A group gathering together dancers and choreographers, the Grand Union pushed the frontiers of art mixing dance, performance, and theatre, thus making light of the boundaries between artistic disciplines and of the rules of representation. Between 1970 and 1976, the Grand Union used improvisation both as an artistic and a life form in order to go beyond hierarchies and to map out a Grand Union Dance After Choreography: An Evening With Grand Union During this very special event, Douglas Dunn, Nancy Lewis, and Yvonne Rainer, all members of legendary improvisational group Grand Union -which also included Trisha Brown, Barbara Dilley, David Gordon, and Steve Paxton -will reunite for the first time since the group ? S dissolution in 1976. Grand Union (1970-1976): Evolved from Yvonne Rainer's Continuous Project Altered Daily in which rehearsal process was integrated into the performance. Trisha Brown, Barbara Dilley, Douglass Dunn, David Gordon, Nancy Lewis, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer. Barbara Dilley (Lloyd) (born 1938) is an American dancer, performance artist, improvisor, choreographer and educator, best known for her work as a prominent member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1963-1968), and then with the groundbreaking dance and performance ensemble The Grand Union, from 1969 to 1976. 'The Grand Union' (1970-1976), An Improvisational Performance Group recaptures the onstage and offstage life of a New York-based improvisational collective an important source for The Grand Union, an improvisational group Rainer was key to forming in the 1970s, which gathered some of the same Judson participants together again. Peter Moore s photograph of Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Schlichter (back), Sally Gross, Tony Holder, Deborah Hay, and Robert Morris (middle), Yvonne Rainer, Alex Hay, Lori Anne Salem; Ramsay. The Grand Union (1970-1976): An Improvisational Performance Group Marianne Goldberg; Guest and Jeshke. Nijinsky's Faune Restored: A Study of Vaslav Nijinsky's 1915 Dance Score "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune" and his dance notation system and Beck. A Revival of Nijinsky's Original