| List of Illustrations | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction to the 1971 Edition | |
| Introduction | |
| Untitled | p. 3 |
| Marmalade Me | p. 7 |
| Paul Taylor and Co. | p. 17 |
| Katherine Litz Co. | p. 18 |
| Martha Graham and Co. | p. 20 |
| New "Happenings" at the Reuben | p. 23 |
| "Happenings": Ingenious Womb (Allan Kaprow) | p. 24 |
| Old Hat and New Connecticut (American Dance Festival at New London) | p. 26 |
| Cunningham in Connecticut | p. 28 |
| Fresh Winds (Yvonne Rainer, Fred Herko) | p. 30 |
| Boiler Room (Allan Kaprow) | p. 32 |
| Miss Marsicano | p. 34 |
| Dance: "poem" by Jill J., in response to a letter from Allan Kaprow | p. 36 |
| Democracy (Judson Dance Theater) | p. 38 |
| Judson Speedlimits (Judith Dunn) | p. 40 |
| Pain, Pleasure, Process (Judson Dance Theater) | p. 42 |
| Theatre: Natural History (Dreams)(Jim Dine) | p. 47 |
| Waring - Rainer | p. 49 |
| Freedom for Action | p. 53 |
| Hay - Brown | p. 57 |
| There Is No Silence Now (John Cage) | p. 61 |
| Rainer's Muscle | p. 64 |
| Car Crash (Jim Dine) | p. 69 |
| "Environments" at Martha Jackson's | p. 71 |
| On the Happenings - New York Scene | p. 72 |
| Inside Orignale (Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage) | p. 77 |
| Billy Kluver | p. 83 |
| The Royal Ballet | p. 87 |
| Morris - Childs | p. 89 |
| Fall Colors (Martha Graham, Steve Paxton) | p. 94 |
| Fluxus Fuxus | p. 97 |
| LaMonte Young | p. 99 |
| New London Revivals: Part I (Jose Limon, Martha Graham) | p. 102 |
| New London Revivals: Part II (Jose Limon, Martha Graham) | p. 105 |
| December Romance (Aileen Passloff, Remy Charlip) | p. 109 |
| Martha Graham | p. 111 |
| Which Way the Avant-Garde? | p. 115 |
| Critics' Critics | p. 123 |
| Robert Whitman | p. 124 |
| Take Me Disappearing (Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton) | p. 127 |
| Dancing Is a Dog (Steve Paxton, Gus Solomons, Jr., Kenneth King, Yvonne Rainer) | p. 129 |
| Ship Ahoy! (Charlotte Moorman, Lil Picard, Fred McDarrah, Carolee Schneeman, Jackson Mac Low) | p. 131 |
| A Likely Story (The Harkness Ballet) | p. 132 |
| Canceled | p. 133 |
| On a White Camel, Investigating Everything (James Lee Byars) | p. 137 |
| Where's Kenneth? (Kenneth King) | p. 139 |
| Photoplay (Robert Whitman, Beverly Schmidt, Trisha Brown, Elaine Summers, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Morris, Deborah Hay, Lucinda Childs, Meredith Monk) | p. 141 |
| Time Tunnel (Jose Limon) | p. 144 |
| Well-Hung | p. 146 |
| The Holy Hurricane (Hermann Nitsch) | p. 148 |
| Over His Dead Body (Performance Art at Judson Church) | p. 150 |
| Paxton's People | p. 153 |
| Hay's Groups | p. 155 |
| Pieces of Gene (Gene Swenson) | p. 158 |
| Sheboygan (Once Group in Wisconsin) | p. 161 |
| Okay Fred (Merce Cunningham) | p. 166 |
| To Whom It May Concern (Merce Cunningham) | p. 169 |
| Cultural Gangsters | p. 172 |
| RR (Robert Rauschenberg) | p. 175 |
| The Grandest Tiger | p. 178 |
| Danscrabble | p. 179 |
| Return of a Perplexed Native (In London) | p. 181 |
| Getting Batter All the Time (In London, The Beatles, Arthur Kopit) | p. 185 |
| Hello Young Lovers (Harkness Youth Company) | p. 191 |
| Light Years Away (James Lee Byars) | p. 194 |
| The Unhappy Spectator (Panel Performance) | p. 197 |
| Tornado in a Teacup (Steve Paxton) | p. 204 |
| Angel Anyone? (Ken Dewey) | p. 208 |
| Heads - Tails (Meredith Monk) | p. 212 |
| Not in Broad Daylight (Anna Sokolow, Edwin Denby, Martha Graham, Houston) | p. 215 |
| Credo Qui Absurdum (Andy Warhol, John de Menil) | p. 218 |
| Holy Christometer | p. 222 |
| Alpert's Third Life and The Chemistry of Divinity (Richard Alpert) | p. 226 |
| Soft in the Head (Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Yoko Ono, LaMonte Young) | p. 233 |
| Tell Me the Weather | p. 237 |
| Casting for '69 (George Segal) | p. 240 |
| About the Ash Tree | p. 244 |
| What Sin a Name | p. 248 |
| Tapioca State Pudding | p. 252 |
| Non Noto | p. 259 |
| Come Seven | p. 267 |
| Pubis Est Veritas | p. 272 |
| The Belles in the Towers | p. 280 |
| Ergo Sum | p. 285 |
| Down to the Hilt | p. 289 |
| Like a Boy in a Boat (Gene Swenson) | p. 292 |
| Jotsam and Fletchup | p. 295 |
| Horses' Teeth (Letter to Meredith Monk) | p. 296 |
| Until We're 90 (Letter to George Brecht) | p. 299 |
| Ere Midsummer | p. 301 |
| Three American Pennies | p. 304 |
| Afterword | p. 307 |
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