Jill Johnston's Theatre of Life

The Essential Jill Johnston Reader
Edited by Clare Croft
Duke University Press, 2024
 
--By Tom Phillips
 
Everyone knows that post-modern dance began at Judson Memorial Church in the early 1960s, but few people today remember what actually happened there. Luckily, the Village Voice was on the story, and sent its most daring critic to cover it. Jill Johnston’s columns of the 1960s and 70s have now been collected in a book, an invaluable chronicle of dance in the context of a social/sexual/political sea change.   

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