MRPJ#17/memory/place: Editor’s Note

Editor: Anya Pryor ABOUT THE TITLE (on memory) I wanted to call this journal something like traces or residues. Not that I think memory is trash, but the feeling of looking at the handwriting on a rolodex card of someone who isn’t there, but whose mind and feeling somehow persists, is like the feeling of […]

MRPJ#17/memory/place: Table of Contents

Fall/Winter 1998/99 Editor: Anya Pryor Editor’s Note by Anya Pryor Alone and By Itself by Catherine Levine A Magical Place by Laurie Uprichard

MRPJ#14/The Legacy of Robert Ellis Dunn (1928-1996): “In the Congregation of Art” by Al Carmines (Reprinted from Dance Scope, Fall-Winter 1967-68)

The Judson Dance Theater came into being in the summer of 1962. I had been Associate Minister of the church for one year, with special responsibility for directing the arts program. The previous year I had been engaged in beginning a theater devoted to presenting the work of new playwrights, and in many ways the […]

MRPJ#15/Moving Communities: Extras

As I worked inside this complex matrix of culture, power, learning and creativity, I tried to be as flexible as I could. I tried to be subtle; at the same time, I wanted to show an alternative to conventional and conservative thinking.

MRPJ#13/Body/Belief: “Three Stories” by Ralph Lemon

The Great Harlot Who Sits On Many Waters This happened when I was very small. I was riding in a car with just my mother. I was curled close enough to her to touch the steering wheel. we were on our way to a house to study the bible story of Job. God, whose name […]

MRPJ#14/The Legacy of Robert Ellis Dunn (1928-1996): Table of Contents

Spring 1997 Guest Editor: Wendy Perron Excerpt from Robert Dunn’s journal writings, which originally appeared in Contact Quarterly, Winter 1989 Introduction by Wendy Perron, Guest Editor memoir by Cate Deicher

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MRPJ#14/The Legacy of Robert Ellis Dunn (1928-1996): Extras

Dunn educated an army of dancers to combat the cultural paradigm of the split between mind and body. Dunn gave credence to the body’s voice, giving it control of choreography.

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MRPJ#14/The Legacy of Robert Ellis Dunn (1928-1996): Excerpt from Robert Dunn’s journal writings (in lieu of Editor’s Note)

30 March 1980 In the fall of 1960, I began a series of four courses (workshops, what have you) in choreography at the Merce Cunningham Studio, then at the corner of 14th Street and 6th Avenue, a building share by the Living Theater. These classes continued to the spring of 1962, immediately followed by the […]

MRPJ#17/memory/place: Extras

At first MR was a collective of people that would make things happen. We would meet at different people’s homes, decide everything collectively and share the work. Then once we started to get grants and needed to turn in paperwork and so on, I became the director, and was paid like $200 or something (laughter).

MRPJ#13/Body/Belief: Table of Contents

Fall/Winter 1996-97 Editors: Peter Larose and Audrey Kindred Why I Practice Yoga by Sally Hess The Joy of the Sensuous by Howard Moody

MRPJ#12/Dollars and Sensibility: Table of Contents

Mid-Winter to Summer 1996 From the Editors by Annie Rachelle Lanzillotto and Alice Naude pussy & cash: diary of a downsized diva, 10/15/92/at the crossroads #4 by hattie gossett 2 Cents by Erin Fitzgerald

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MRPJ#12/Dollars and Sensibility: Extras

“Under capitalism, everything can be turned into a commodity, therefore anything that can be sold as art is art. Until we can replace the capitalist system with either socialism or something in which the needs of people and the planet are placed above the pursuit of profit/accumulation, we have to not only survive, but politically […]

MRPJ#12/Dollars and Sensibility: Editors’ Note

Guest Editor: Annie Rachelle Lanzillotto Redemption. It’s the nature of money to change hands. Look down the streets, every coupla feet, somebody’s pockets are ringing. Money is everywhere you look. Garbage is money. Ice is money. Fish is. Anything that changes hands. Cement. Tar. Glass. Money is blood. Blood is oxygen. Oxygen is life.

MRPJ#12/Dollars and Sensibility: “It Topples Fast” by Daria Fain

The translation of cash in French, is “liquide” or “espece” (liquid or species) It’s liquid. You cannot grasp it. All the different coins! I take a long time to pay—when I have francs in my pocket. Here, cash is fast; I’m struck by the way people stick dollar bills in their hands.

MRPJ#11/conversations: Extras

Hay: I think that the language of dance could open up and be explored and be able to include all that experience of so many things at once in watching your pieces. I wish that there was a language of dance that could help us see better. Help us see the thrill.

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