Doris Hering’s review gives us some insight into how David Tudor was not necessarily regarded as central to performances that focused on dance. The Twelfth American Dance Festival took place at a time when Tudor’s notoriety as an experimentalist was high, but Hering focuses her attention on the dancers Tudor was there to support: Merce Cunningham and Sybil Shearer. She notes they approached the perceived theme of conflict in “non-dramatic terms” with overtones of mysticism and Orientalism.
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| Title | “The ‘Good Guys’ Versus the ‘Bad Guys’: Twelfth American Dance Festival,” Dance Magazine, 31–35, 82 |
| Maker | Doris Hering |
| Date | October 1959 |
| Type | press clipping |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 62, folder 15 |
Cite
Hering, Doris. “The ‘Good Guys’ Versus the ‘Bad Guys’:
Twelfth American Dance Festival,” Dance Magazine, 31–35, 82, October 1959. Getty Research Institute,
David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 62, folder 15. In
The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music,
Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John
Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025.
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