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Random Acts of Violence: Bringing John Cage’s Chance Techniques to Fight Choreography and Stage Combatant Acting
Theatre Faculty Research
  • T. Fulton Burns, Marshall University
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Article
Publication Date
4-1-2010
Abstract

The concept of chance utilized by John Cage is a frightening, exciting, and liberating process for any artist. It was so effective that other musical artists such as Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and Christian Wolff used it. In the world of theatre these concepts are constantly used today by the Neo-Futurists in Chicago and New York in their production of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind and by Improv Troupes throughout the country.

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Citation Information
Burns, T. Fulton. “Random Acts of Violence: Bringing John Cage’s Chance Techniques to Fight Choreography and Stage Combatant Acting.” The Fight Master, vol. 32, no. 1, 2010, pp. 18-23 & 53.