"[She] did her work behind the scenes, eschewing labels like 'producer' and 'presenter' while performing a wide array of functions - go-between, convincer, fund-raiser and more - that might in fact have fallen under those job descriptions. When pressed, she would use a humble term to characterize her role: 'secrétaire d'artistes' - secretary of artists." Among those artists were Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, Philip Glass and Robert Wilson (she engineered the commissioning of Einstein on the Beach).
Article source here:Arts Journal
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