Taken by surprise : a dance improvisation reader / edited by Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albright, Ann Cooper.

Gere, David

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Improvisation in dance.

Physical Description:

xxi, 279 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2003]

Summary:

First comprehensive overview of improvisation in dance.

Contents:

Taken by surprise : improvisation in dance and mind / Susan Leigh Foster

Exposed to gravity / Bruce Curtis

Dance : a body with a mind of its own / Ruth Zaporah

The cutting edge of awareness : reports from the inside of improvisation / Kent De Spain

Anna Halprin and improvisation as child's play : a search for informed innocence / Janice Ross

Animate dancing : a practice in dance improvisation / Simone Forti

Learning to speak : an apprenticeship with Simone Forti in logomotion / Carmela Hermann

Spontaneous combustion : notes on dance improvisation from the sixties to the nineties / Sally Banes

Stepping, stealing, sharing, and daring : improvisation and the tap dance challenge / Constance Valis Hill

The writing on the wall : reading improvisation in flamenco and postmodern dance / Michelle Heffner Hayes

Improvisation as participating performance : egungun masked dancers in the Yoruba tradition / Margaret Thompson Drewal

Against improvisation : a postmodernist makes the case for choreography / Victoria Marks

Multiple pleasures : improvisation in bharatanatyam / Avanthi Meduri

A subjective history of contact improvisation / Nancy Stark Smith

Drafting interior techniques / Steve Paxton

Embodied meanings in performing, interpreting, and talking about dance improvisation / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.

Weighting metaphors : a response to Raymond W. Gibbs and "Hilary" / Karen Schaffman

Present tense : contact improvisation at twenty-five / Ann Cooper Albright

Some traveler's tales / Rachel Kaplan

What's the score? : structured improvisation as national pastime / Maura Keefe

For the taste of an apple : why I practice Zen / Ellen Webb

Life scores / Nancy Stark Smith

Dwelling in possibility / Ann Cooper Albright.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0819566470

0819566489

OCLC:

52412060