The improvisation studies reader : spontaneous acts / edited by Rebecca Caines and Ajay Heble.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caines, Rebecca, editor of compilation.

Heble, Ajay, 1961- editor of compilation.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Improvisation (Acting).

Improvisation (Music).

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 460 pages.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Contents:

Prologue: Spontaneous acts / Rebecca Caines and Ajay Heble

Part 1. Listening. Improvised listening: opening statements : listening to the lambs / George Lipsitz

On listening / Jean-Luc Nancy

Improvisation / Jacques Lecoq

Going fragile / Mattin

Music, language, and cultural styles: improvisation as conversation / Ingrid Monson

Deep listening meditations: Egypt (1999) / Pauline Oliveros

"Really listening": original art, 30 x 44", made live @ World Percussion Summit September 3, 2013 / Jeff Schlanger, Musicwitness®

Part 2. Trust/Risk. Improvised trust: opening statements / Ellen Waterman

Improvisation / Constantin Stanislavski

Afterthoughts / Keith Johnstone

Thoughts on improvisation: a comparative approach / Bruno Nettl

Theatre of the oppressed / Augusto Boal

Group creativity: musical performance and collaboration / Keith Sawyer

Community performance: improvising being-together / Petra Kuppers

"Paradise now": notes / Judith Malina and Julian Beck

Chicanas' experience in collective theatre: ideology and form / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano

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

Luminous axis

blade-form panel (Graphic score) / Wadada Leo Smith

Part 3. Flow. Improvised flow: opening statements / Susan Leigh Foster

A theoretical model for enjoyment / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Keynote presentation (Guelph) 2007 (Graphic score) / Anthony Braxton

The impermanent art / Merce Cunningham

Improvisation and ensemble / Michael Chekhov

Theory of the dérive / Guy Debord

"All aboard the night train": flow, layering, and rupture in postindustrial New York / Tricia Rose

Writing improvisation into modernism / Rob Wallace

Stone sketch (Graphic score) / Germaine Liu (with Nicholas Loess)

Essentials of spontaneous prose / Jack Kerouac.

Part 4. Dissonance. Improvised dissonance: opening statements / Jesse Stewart

Phantoms of the other: fragments of the communal unconscious / Rustom Bharucha

Bebop as cultural alternative / Daniel Belgrad

Happenings in the New York scene / Allan Kaprow

Other: from noun to verb / Nathaniel Mackey

Playing like a girl: the queer laughter of the Feminist Improvising Group / Julie Dawn Smith

Frozen Grand Central / Charlie Todd

Part 5. Responsibility. Improvised responsibility: opening statements : (call and) responsibility: improvisation, ethics, co-creation / Daniel Fischlin

Gittin' to know y'all: improvised music, interculturalism, and the racial imagination / George E. Lewis

Kinship, intelligence, and memory as improvisation: culture and performance in New Orleans / Joseph Roach

Swing: from verb to noun / Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)

OAAU founding rally / Malcolm X

Part 6. Liveness. Improvised liveness: opening statements : improvisation and the "live": playing with the audience / Clare Grant

Liveness / Philip Auslander

The revolution will not be televised / Gil Scott-Heron

The present of performance / Hans-Thies Lehmann

Time in the place of space: dialoguing improvisation with Pierre Hébert: Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, June 19, 2012 / interviewed by Nicholas Loess

Improvisation and theatrical power: from discipline to refusal / Alan Filewod

Part 7. Surprise. Improvised surprise: opening statements / Rebecca Caines

Playing / Richard Schechner

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

Seven aspects of spontaneity / Viola Spolin

Yoruba play and the transformation of ritual / Margaret Thompson Drewal

Play on: collaboration and process / Tim Etchells

Step across the border (DVD liner notes) / Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel

DJ / Wayde Compton

Part 8. Hope. Epilogue: Hope and improvisation / William Parker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780203083741 (electronic bk.)

0203083741 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

99992948075

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