“The essence of performance is its ‘now-ness’–no mind, no memory. Just that brief time when one has the chance to be whole, when seemingly disconnected threads of one’s being are woven and intertwined into the complete present. No other. No past. No future. No mind as an entity distinct from the body. Certainly I’ve experienced memorable performances–but what made them memorable was extraneous to the dancing.”
Carolyn Brown, Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham