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"I wonder if there's anybody out there who has any memories (or photos or programmes or reviews or personal diary jottings...) of experimental dance pieces from around 40 years ago (say, over 10 years, starting just before The Place opened, perhaps 1966 to 1976)? I already put up on this site a few photos of 2 of my own pieces, and there's more where that came from but there must be lots more elsewhere, eg Geoff Moore 'Moving Being' etc.
Lancaster University (with which I've been associated for the last 20 years) is currently running a year-long programme called 'Experimentality', described as "a collaborative exploration of ideas and practices of experimentation in science and technology, the arts, commerce, politics, popular culture, everyday life, and the natural world. Over the course of the academic year, the programme will run a range of workshops and arts events, culminating in an international conference, The Experimental Society, on 7-9 July 2010." I'm participating in this programme, and one of the keynote speakers has noted "the rich archive of experiments in disclosing and constructing space-times in the late 1960s". Dance was certainly part of that, and a lot of it happened in and around The Place. It would be good to see what documentation we might be able to share on this website... perhaps to 'crowd-source a social history' of the early days of experimental dance in UK (or at least in London)? There are a few scholarly studies available also: what do people think might be useful?"
I wonder if there's any way we could marry up your newly-arrived pix with the related ones I put up (of the same 1968 season) - which are to be found at the opposite end of the photos on this website - round about p 14 or 15 (if your page counts as p 1).
By the way I do think there's a lot that could be debated in what yourself and Peter Dockly said to Peter Williams in that magazine interview. You and I have talked about it, but there's a lot more that could/should be said, don't you think?.
Anyway it's excellent that experiments in dance in the LCDT orbit from before 1969 are making more of a show here... I wonder if anyone else out there has other archive stuff they might add?