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3 unusual facts about Marilyn Wood


Marilyn Wood

The most ambitious of these was a site-specific performance at the Seagram Building on Park Avenue, New York City.

It was in experimenting with the dimensionality of sculpture combined with student dance classes in improvised movement that she had this epiphany: “I discovered I could BE the sculpture!” which led to two summer sessions with Hanya Holm at Colorado College and further solidified her shift from painting to dance.

This was followed by five years performing in the early Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1958-1963), and touring with John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, and five other dancers: Carolyn Brown, Viola Farber, Remy Charlip, Judith Dunn and Steve Paxton.



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