Merce Cunningham Changes: Notes on Choreography.

CUNNINGHAM, Merce & Frances Starr ed. 
Merce Cunningham Changes: Notes on Choreography. 
First edition. 8vo. Unpaginated. B&w plates throughout. White boards with glossy illustrated dust wrapper. New York: Something Else Press, 1968. 

A fascinating look into the working notebooks of Merce Cunningham. The notations that are found here are part language, part gesture, part drawing, and perhaps incomprehensible to anybody but their author. Changes - a collaboration with John Cage "can be viewed as a 170-page print version of an art performance piece. Just as Cunningham spent most of his career approaching choreography and movement in time and space from an original point of view, this book offers notes, images, and drawings of his work in a non-linear, non-traditional way. Taken together, they form a rich panorama of his ideas, work, and impulses, shown through a lens particular to the time and place..”