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Score for Dance #2 from "Dance" from Artifacts at the End of a Decade
1979
composition (irreg.): 9 7/16 × 16 9/16" (24 × 42 cm); sheet: 14 × 17" (35.6 × 43.2 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Lucinda Childs
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Inside Spaces
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Lucinda Childs is an American choreographer and dancer who pioneered the use of pedestrian movement and repetition in postwar dance. Working since the 1960s, she developed a minimalist vocabulary that transforms everyday gestures into rigorous formal compositions, often accompanied by visual projections or architectural staging. Her work emphasizes clarity of line and spatial geometry, departing from the expressive conventions of mid-century modern dance to create a distinctly cerebral physicality.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
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