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Frederic Gafner: carrying on the Cunningham conspiracy. (member of Merce Cunningham Dance Company)(Interview)

From: Dance Magazine  |  Date: 3/1/1996  |  Author: Greco, Stephen

Gafner does not like to be called the best dancer in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company because he believes that all dancers are valuable. He calls himself a perfectionist and believes that people's high expectations for his performance ruin his spontaneity.

It's midafternoon in Merce Cunningham's eleventh-floor rehearsal space in the Westbeth building complex in Greenwich Village. As light streams in through arched windows, dancers are running through a section of Points in Space, which is ...

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