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4 unusual facts about Elaine Summers


Andrew Franck

Franck has worked with numerous dance ensembles and dancers such as Phoebe Neville, Carolyn Bilderback, Laura Dean, Pamela Pribisco, Meg Harper, Elaine Summers, Experimental Intermedia, New Music / New Dance and Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo.

Elaine Summers

She came to New York in the 1950s and became part of the workshop-group originally initiated by Robert Ellis Dunn that would later be referred to as the Judson Dance Theater in its second term 1962, together with a.o. Trisha Brown, Ruth Emerson, Fred Herko, Sally Gross, Edward Bhartonne, Carolee Schneemann, Gretchen MacLane, Deborah Hay, David Gordon, and Valda Setterfield.

This work was strongly influenced by Summers' study with Charlotte Selver and Carola Speads both students of Elsa Gindler.

Kinetic Awareness

Kinetic Awareness is a system of bodywork originated by the American choreographer Elaine Summers in the second half of the 20th century, starting in the 1950s.



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