Chance and Circumstance

"Candid, compelling, and possessed of a keen critical eye and ear, Brown tells fascinating tales of New York's madly innovative mid-twentieth-century art world, details the endless struggle to keep the cash-poor company together, discloses her own sacrifices and triumphs, and assesses the profound influence of the Cage-Cunningham aesthetic"--Booklist, starred review

"Though she modestly never says so, reading her book, one realizes that Carolyn Brown's body carries with it an accumulated history of nearly the whole century of modern American dance."--The Nation

"[This] clear-eyed, unsentimental memoir . . . is something rare—an eyewitness account of an artistic revolution."

—New Yorker