Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance
Copeland's book about the sixty-year career of Merce Cunningham is also a brilliant sixty-year history of theater, dance, art, music and intellectual movements in America. . . ..–Sally Sommer, Professor of American Dance Studies at Florida State University.Examines the trajectory of Merce The Choreographer and places him just where I think he belongs--as a global artist of the twentieth century moving in all directions into the twenty-first..–Valda Setterfield, Member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, 1964-1974Copeland's book will bring joy to Cunningham partisans.–Allan Ulrich,Dance Magazine