Dances that describe themselves : the improvised choreography of Richard Bull / Susan Leigh Foster.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2002.Description: xiii, 334 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0819565504 (alk. paper)
  • 0819565512 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780819565518 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 21 792.82092 BUL
LOC classification:
  • GV1785.B834 F67 2002
Contents:
1. GENEALOGIES OF IMPROVISATION / Structuring Improvisation ; Appropriating the Improvisatory ; Scoring the Unanticipated ; Corporeal Spontaneity ; Improvised Democracies ; Conversations -- 2. MAKING AND DOING / Daniel Nagrin's Workgroup ; The Grand Union ; Dianne McIntyre's Sounds in Motion ; Contact Improvisation ; Richard Bull's New York Chamber Dance Group ; Improvising Community -- 3. ECONOMIES OF COMMUNITY / Financing Dances ; The Warren Street Performance Loft ; Training and Rehearsing ; Interactions -- 4. SPEECH AS ACT / Talking Dance ; Signifying Dancing ; The Grand Union ; Trisha Brown's Accumulation (1971) with Talking (1973) Plus Watermotor (1977); Bill T. Jones's Floating the Tongue and 21 ; Ishmael Houston-Jones's Part 2: Relatives ; Person-abilities ; Storying Dance -- Interlude: Epistolary Choreographies from the Dance That Descrbes Itself -- 5. IMPROVISING CHOREOGRAPHY / Re-membering Past, Present, and Future ; Re-politicizing the Aesthetic -- Choreologue -- Voices in Text -- APPENDIX A: A Chronological Listing of Works by Richard Bull -- APPENDIX B: Selected Writings by Richard Bull -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-327) and index.

1. GENEALOGIES OF IMPROVISATION / Structuring Improvisation ; Appropriating the Improvisatory ; Scoring the Unanticipated ; Corporeal Spontaneity ; Improvised Democracies ; Conversations -- 2. MAKING AND DOING / Daniel Nagrin's Workgroup ; The Grand Union ; Dianne McIntyre's Sounds in Motion ; Contact Improvisation ; Richard Bull's New York Chamber Dance Group ; Improvising Community -- 3. ECONOMIES OF COMMUNITY / Financing Dances ; The Warren Street Performance Loft ; Training and Rehearsing ; Interactions -- 4. SPEECH AS ACT / Talking Dance ; Signifying Dancing ; The Grand Union ; Trisha Brown's Accumulation (1971) with Talking (1973) Plus Watermotor (1977); Bill T. Jones's Floating the Tongue and 21 ; Ishmael Houston-Jones's Part 2: Relatives ; Person-abilities ; Storying Dance -- Interlude: Epistolary Choreographies from the Dance That Descrbes Itself -- 5. IMPROVISING CHOREOGRAPHY / Re-membering Past, Present, and Future ; Re-politicizing the Aesthetic -- Choreologue -- Voices in Text -- APPENDIX A: A Chronological Listing of Works by Richard Bull -- APPENDIX B: Selected Writings by Richard Bull -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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