Aileen Dowling

Aileen Dowling is a London-based writer with a research focus on American art and performance since 1960.
In what is held to be Banes’s definitive text on postmodern dance, Grand Union serves as almost a coda to a story in which Judson is the protagonist. However, in Wendy Perron’s new book The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, 1970-1976, the group gets their moment after nearly 50 years.
Cover: Wendy Perron, The Grand Union Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, 1970–76 (Wesleyan University Press, September 2020

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