Performance
Douglas Dunn in Italy: Dance, Dancer, and Spectator
- By Aline Nari, Translated from Italian by Joan Benham
To better understand the origins of contemporary Italian dance, Italian critics, dancers, and choreographers are now examining the American presence in the Italian dance world of the 1970s.[1] In 1969 Fabio Sargentini inaugurated The Danza Volo Musica Dinamite Festival (Dance Flight Music Dynamite Festival) by inviting Steve Paxton, Deborah Hay, Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti, and Trisha Brown. At his Music and Dance USA Festival in 1972, Sargentini followed up, again hosting Simone Forti, Trisha Brown, and Yvonne Rainer, together with Philip Glass and Steve Reich.[2] Another figure of impact on Italian dance has been Douglas Dunn, a protagonist in postmodern dance since its beginnings.[3] Dunn turned eighty on October 19, 2022—an important birthday for an...