Judson Dance Theater

…of the organizers of the Judson Dance Theater, a focal point for vanguard activity in the dance world throughout the 1960s, and she formed her own company for a brief time after the Judson performances ended. Rainer was noted for an approach to dance that treated the body more as…

…called “movement works” for the Judson Dance Theater, an experimental dance collective that operated from 1962 to 1964. Those movement works—e.g., Lateral Splay and Chromelodeon (both 1963)—were part painting, part installation, and part performance and were entirely unique and unclassifiable in any traditional terms. Schneemann called it “kinetic theater.”