Carolyn Brown, a Juilliard-trained dancer, met John Cage and Merce Cunningham in 1951 and traveled with the pair to Black Mountain in the summer of 1952. Cunningham founded his Dance Company in 1953, with Brown among his first dancers. Cage would compose the scores to accompany Cunningham’s choreography, and Robert Rauschenberg would often create the sets and costumes. "I danced with Merce," recalled Brown, "because I wanted to be a part of a very new experience, of what was happening today. And with Merce, and John, and Bob I found that world. We look at dancing differently today because of the three of them."