rg Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 Sally Banes, author of, among other books, TERPSICHORE IN SNEAKERS and other accomplishments died yesterday. Link to comment
California Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 Sally received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 for the Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics at the American Society for Aesthetics. She will be sorely missed. Among her many books, I especially recommend her landmark feminist dance history: Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Women-Female-Bodies-Onstage/dp/0415096715/ Link to comment
Amy Reusch Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 So sorry to hear this. Her classes at Purchase were fascinating, particularly Post Modern Dance History and Performance Art. Link to comment
California Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Tributes to Sally Banes: Wendy Perron: http://wendyperron.com/sally-banes-1950-2020/ Deborah Jowitt: https://www.artsjournal.com/dancebeat/2020/06/in-memoriam-sally-banes-1950-2020/ Link to comment
Quiggin Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 The Wendy Perron tribute that California referred to above has a link to a fascinating conversion between Sally Banes and Yvonne Rainer covering the early days of Judson Dance. Rainer says that the Judson dancers were reacting against their earlier Cunningham training, and that they had become "children of John" Cage, not Merce (Cunningham's curt words), which greatly amuses Banes. Talk took place at the Walker Art Center in 2001. Quote Link to comment
sandik Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 When you have a moment, read Deborah Jowitt's tribute to Sally, and then read through the comments -- it's a litany of gratitude and glee. We were lucky to have someone that made work so much fun, took the work seriously, and brought all the world to bear on her observations of such a slippery topic as dance. All the writing is worth reading, but I'd like to give a little extra nudge for her contributions to Nelson George's "Fresh: Hip Hop Don't Stop" -- she was one of the first dance critics to seek out breakdancers and write about them as the phenomenal artists that they were and are. Link to comment
California Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Obituary in this morning's New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/arts/dance/sally-banes-dead.html Link to comment
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