Frederic Gafner: carrying on the Cunningham conspiracy. (member of Merce Cunningham Dance Company)(Interview)
From: Dance Magazine
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Date: 3/1/1996
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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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