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Article: Modern Europe.
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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A FEW MONTHS AGO, CAROLYN BROWN, A GREAT FORMER PRINCIPAL DANCER WITH MERCE CUNNINGHAM, PIN-POINTED A TURNING POINT IN MODERN DANCE AS THE VISIT OF THE CUNNINGHAM COMPANY TO LONDON IN THE EARLY 1960s.
Around the same time, the first appearances of Jose Limon and Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham (who had first come as early as 1954), Paul Taylor, Charles Weidman and Alvin Ailey, and a little later, John Butler, Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis, in London, and often elsewhere in Europe, were the start of something big. Something almost incredible.
Not only did these extended European forays, as Brown pointed out, give a new visibility and a heightened ...