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Others included sculptors and conceptual artists Robert Morris and Alex Hay.

"He loved being around dancers," Rainer says. The most famous participant was Robert Rauschenberg. Musicians, poets and, above all, visual artists gave in to its pull, all of them participating in collective workshops and many, despite having no training, performing in works choreographed there. In 1962, Rainer and a small group of passionately experimental choreographers founded the Judson Dance Theatre – but it was never just about dance. "I think the church was threatened with excommunication from the main Baptist organisation. Rainer once staged a work with naked dancers. The minister astonished everyone with his tolerance of what went on in his church – as long as it didn't happen on a Sunday. Impressed by the creative buzz emanating from Greenwich Village and beyond, Moody opened up Judson Memorial Church to local artists who needed space to exhibit, rehearse or perform but couldn't pay rent. One of the key venues in this cultural explosion was a large Baptist church, presided over by a former-marine-turned-minister called Howard Moody, who had unusually hip, libertarian views of what his ministry involved. It was an exhilarating time, a very heady time." "The same group of people were involved in music concerts, art events and dance concerts. "The art world was so much smaller then," Rainer says.