PositiveThe Arts FuseFor her book Preger-Simon smoothly knits together photographs, fragments from letters, diaries, press notices, and retrospection ... A keen observer and letter-writer, she can recount conversations she had with [Merce] and Cage about their developing aesthetics ... Preger-Simon gives a lively sense of the people she worked with, especially her close friend, company dancer Carolyn Brown, and the elusive Cunningham ... Despite dance critic Alastair Macaulay’s expansive Afterword, this is not a book for learning everything about the history of Merce Cunningham...What Dancing with Merce Cunningham gives us is the generous and loving presence of its author, who understood the value of the work she was doing and the people who did it with her.
