Jill Johnston

Author and Critic   May 17, 1929 - September 18, 2010

Marmalade Me Published by Wesleyan/New England Press  1998

 

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations ix
Preface by Jill Johnston xi
Introduction (1971) by Gregory Battcock xvii
Introduction by Deborah Jowitt xxi
Part 1
Untitled 3
Marmelade Me 7
Part 2
Paul Taylor & Co. 17
Katherine Litz Co. 18
Martha Graham & Co. 20
New 'Happenings' at the Reuben 23
'Happenings': Ingenious Womb
  (Allan Kaprow)
24
Old Hat and New in Connecticut
  (American Dance Fesitval at New London)
26
Cunningham in Connecticut 28
Fresh Winds (Yvonne Rainer, Fred Herko) 30
Boiler Room (Allan Kaprow) 32
Miss Marsicano 34
Dance: 'poem' by Jill J., in response to letter from Allan Kaprow 36
Democracy (Judson Dance Theater) 38
Judson Speedlimits (Judith Dunn) 40
Pain, Pleasure, Process (Judson Dance Theater) 42
Theatre: Natural History (Dreams) (Jim Dine) 47
Waring-Rainer 49
Freedom for Action 53
Hay-Brown 57
Part 3
There Is No Silence Now (John Cage) 61
Rainer's Muscle 64
Car Crash (Jim Dine) 69
'Environments' at Martha Jackson's 71
On Happenings-New York Scene 72
Inside Originale (Karlheinz Stockhausen,
   John Cage)
77
Billy Klver 83
The Royal Ballet 87
Morris-Childs 89
Fall Colors (Martha Graham. Steve Paxton) 94
Fluxus Fuxus 97
LaMonte Young 99
New London Revivals: Part I (Jos Limn, Martha Graham) 102
New London Revivals: Part II (Jos Limn, Martha Graham) 105
December Romance (Aileen Passloff,
   Remy Charlip)
109
Martha Graham 111
Which Way the Avante-Garde 115
Part 4
Critics' Critics 123
Robert Whitman 124
Take Me Disappearing (Deborah Hay,
   Steve Paxton)
127
Dancing Is a Dog (Steve Paxton, Gus Solomon, Jr., Kenneth King, Yvonne Rainer) 129
Ship Ahoy! (Charlotte Moorman, Lil Picard, Fred McDarrah, Carolee Schneeman,
Jackson Mac Low)
131
A Likely Story (The Harkness Ballet) 132
Canceled 133
Part 5
On a White Camel, Investigating Everything (James Lee Byars) 137
Where's Kenneth? (Kenneth King) 139
Photoplay (Robert Whitman, Beverly Schmidt, Trisha Brown, Elaine SUmmers, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Morris, Deborah Hay, Lucinda Childs, Meredith Monk) 141
Time Tunnel (Jos Limn) 144
Well-Hung 146
The Holy Hurricane (Hermann Nitsch) 148
Over His Dead Body
   (Performance Art at Judson Church)
150
Paxton's People 153
Hay's Groups 155
Pieces of Gene (Gene Swenson) 158
Sheboygan (Once Group in Wisconsin) 161
Okay Fred (Merce Cunningham) 166
To Whom It May Concern (Merce Cunningham) 169
Cultural Gangsters 172
RR (Robert Rauschenberg) 175
The Grandest Tiger 178
Danscrabble 179
Return of a Perplexed Native (In London) 181
Getting Batter All the Time (In London,
   The Beatles, Arthur Kopit)
185
Part 6
Hello Young Lovers
   (Harkness Youth Company)
191
Light Years Away (James Lee Byars) 194
The Unhappy Spectator (Panel Performance) 197
Tornado in a Teacup (Steve Paxton) 204
Angel Anyone? (Ken Dewey) 208
Heads-Tails (Meredith Monk) 212
Not in Broad Daylight (Anna Sokolow,
   Edwin Denby, Martha Graham, Houston)
215
Credo Qui Absurdum
   (Andy Warhol, John de Menil)
218
Holy Christometer 222
Alpert's Third Life & The Chemistry of Divinity (Richard Alpert) 226
Soft in the Head (Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Yoko Ono, LaMonte Young) 233
Tell Me the Weather 237
Casting for '69 (George Segal) 240
About the Ash Tree 244
What Sin a Name 248
Tapioca State Pudding 252
Non Noto 259
Part 7
Come Seven 267
Pubis Est Veritas 272
The Belles in the Towers 280
Ergo Sum 285
Down to the Hilt 289
Like a Boy in a Boat (Gene Swenson) 292
Jotsam & Fletchup 295
Horses' Teeth (Letter to Meredith Monk) 296
Untill We're 90 (Letter to George Brecht) 299
Ere Midsummer 301
Three American Pennies 304
Afterword by Sally Banes 307

An Informal Get-together
May 17, 2011 
from 5:30 to 8:30 PM

Emily Harvey Foundation
537 Broadway, New York NY

At 7 pm Ingrid will read

a letter from Jill's unfinished book:

Letters to the Living and the Dead:

An Epistolary Memoir
       Refreshments will be served        


Deep Listening Institute's

 

Tribute to Jill Johnston


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Kingston, NY 12401


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 Memorial for Jill Johnston

 

Saturday, January 29, 2011

from 1 to 5 PM

Judson Memorial Church

55 Washington Sq. South

New York NY

 

 

England's Child
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Appendix 2 of EC is

a list of carillons by G&J/

Cyril F. Johnston.

See also:

Gillett & Johnston Index

At Sea On Land
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