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Reinventing dance in the 1960s : everything was possible / edited by Sally Banes with the assistance of Andrea Harris ; with a foreword by Mikhail Baryshnikov

Gulliver's hamburger : defamiliarization and the ordinary in the 1960s Avant Garde / Sally Banes -- Anna Halprin and the 1960s : acting in the gap between the personal, the public, and the political / ...
The Cheat Sheet

Tina Turner: Did She Teach Mick Jagger to Dance?

Firstly, a little background. According to The Harvard Crimson, The Rolling Stones went to see the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in Los Angeles sometime in the 1960s. The Stones found the Turners’ ...
IndieWire

Margot Robbie Mastered ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Dance Scene in Three Days, No Talking Needed

Basil said that dancing “was partnering, it was jitterbug” before the 1960s, but during the counterculture era it became “freedom — what the ’60s were about.” With dancers no longer holding hands, the ...
Hyperallergic

Minimalist Duets in Sculpture and Dance

During the summer of 1960, dance artists Simone Forti, Nancy Meehan, and Yvonne Rainer rented rehearsal space at Dance Players on Sixth Avenue so they could improvise together. Sitting in on a ...
The Conversation

A brief history of dance music – from basements to beaches, dancefloors have mirrored social change

When US rock'n'roll arrived in the UK in the mid-1950s, there were few places for British teenagers to dance to this exciting new genre. But by the early 1960s, dance venues specifically aimed at ...