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Criticism & History of the Performing Arts
with Alastair Macaulay
Alastair Macaulay, former Chief Dance Critic of the New York Times and Chief Theatre Critic of the Financial Times, is now freelance critic and historian of the performing arts. In this collection of writings, he allows his interest in all the arts to roam, both within current events and his own fascination with history. He covers theatre, dance of all kinds, dance history, and music.
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Photo: Suzanne Farrell in 1977 as Dulcinea in “Don Quixote.” Credit: New York City Ballet
Giselle: Questions and Answers
with Alastair Macaulay, Doug Fullington, Maina Gielgud, Jane Pritchard, Alexei Ratmansky, and Marian Smith.
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Merce Cunningham showing a Martha Graham fall exercise: photographs by Barbara Morgan
1, 2, 3, 4, 5. You open a book new to you but published in the last century and your mind explodes. I reproduce here four 1942 photographs by Barbara Morgan of the young Merce Cunningham demonstrating Martha Graham technique. I’ve been researching Cunningham since the last century, but I’d never seen or known of these photos until this afternoon. 1942 was, I suspect, when Cunningham began to devise his own dance technique. A few weeks before the 2020 lockdown, I was lucky to attend - in the Westbeth studio of all places - a joint lecture-demonstration about the connections between the Graham and Cunningham techniques, a subject on which I’d already thought and written. But these photos make me want to begin again, in a happy way.
In the early 1980s, I was commissioned to write ten or more entries for the International Encyclopaedia of Dance. I, like most writers, was late with my submissions, but I believe I completed them all by 1987. By the time the encyclopaedia was published by Oxford University Press in 1998, however, another eleven years had passed; I was a full-time London theatre critic, and too preoccupied by my new duties to invest in a copy of the encyclopaedia. In 2011, however,