A pivotal figure in contemporary dance, known for stripping the artform of its classical and modern techniques In the early 1970s a rangy Arizonan arrived in Devon as a guest teacher at Dartington College of Arts. Steve Paxton brought with him the latest developments in postmodern dance from New York, where he had been a founding member of the seminal Judson Dance Theater, and had developed a dance form called contac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM on March 14, 2024