Grand Union
Organization
Grand Union Dance/Theater
"The Grand Union was an improvisational dance group based in New York City from 1970 to 1976. It grew out of Yvonne Rainer's piece Continuous Project - Altered Daily. Rainer's sole authority as choreographer began to slip in early 1970 when the dancers, at her invitation, began to bring in their own materials for the piece. By late 1970, new members had joined the group and the materials were improvised to a much greater extent. The company, which was still often billed as "Yvonne Rainer and Dancers" in the beginning, chose "The Grand Union" as a name to avoid any obvious associations with dance in order to inoculate themselves against charges that what they were doing was not properly dance. To avoid problems with the supermarket chain of the same name, the group used the legal name "Rio Grand Union"."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Union_(dance_group)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Union_(dance_group)
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