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Inheriting the Avant-Garde: Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, and the “Legacy Plan”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2013

Carrie Noland
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“Repetition is a necessary and justified conduct only in relation to that which cannot be replaced.” —Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition

How does one create a dance legacy? Or, in the case of Merce Cunningham, how does one create an avant-garde dance legacy? Can a corpus of controversial works and ideas be preserved for posterity without betraying the fundamental impulse of an intentionally self-exceeding experimental art? What can be preserved, archived, and bequeathed of a choreographer's work if that choreographer's project was precisely to generate what he had not done before?

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , August 2013 , pp. 85 - 121
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 2013 

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