Taken by surprise :
Taken by surprise : a dance improvisation reader /
edited by Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere.
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2003.
- xxi, 279 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
INTRODUCTION / IMPROVISING BODY, IMPROVISING MIND : Taken by surprise (Improvisation in dance and mind) / Exposed to gravity / Dance (A body with a mind of its own) / The cutting edge of awareness (Reports from the inside of improvisation) / A DUET WITH POSTMODERN DANCE : Anna Halprin and improvisation as child's play (A search for informed innocence) / Animate dancing (A practice in dance improvisation) / Learning to speak (An apprenticeship with Simone Forti in logomotion) / Spontaneous combustion (Notes on dance improvisation from the sixties to the nineties) / EXPANDING THE CANON : Stepping, stealing, sharing, and daring (Improvisation and the tap dance challenge) / The writing on the wall (Reading improvisation in flamenco and postmodern dance) / Improvisation as participating performance (Egungun masked dancers in the Yoruba tradition) / Against improvisation (A postmodernist makes the case for choreography) / Multiple pleasures (Improvisation in Bharatanatyam) / RECONSIDERING CONTACT IMPROVISATION : A subjective history of contact improvisation / Drafting interior techniques / Embodied meanings in performing, interpreting, and talking about dance improvisation / Weighting metaphors (A response to Raymond W. Gibbs and "Hilary") / Present tense (Contact improvisation at twenty-five) / IMPROVIASTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE : Some traveler's tales / What's the score? (Structured improvisation as national pastime) / For the taste of an apple (Why I practice Zen) / Life scores / EPILOGUE : Dwelling in possibility / David Gere -- Susan Leigh Foster -- Bruce Curtis -- Ruth Zaporah -- Kent De Spain -- Janice Ross -- Simone Forti -- Carmela Hermann -- Sally Banes -- Constance Valis Hill -- Michelle Heffner Hayes -- Margaret Thompson Drewal -- Victoria Marks -- Avanthi Meduri -- Nancy Stark Smith -- Steve Paxton -- Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. -- Karen Schaffman -- Ann Cooper Albright -- Rachel Kaplan -- Maura Keefe -- Ellen Webb -- Nancy Stark Smith -- Ann Cooper Albright.
0819566470 (cloth : alk. paper) 0819566489 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780819566485 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003012767
Improvisation in dance.
GV1781.2 / .T35 2003
792.8028 / ALB
Includes bibliographical references and index.
INTRODUCTION / IMPROVISING BODY, IMPROVISING MIND : Taken by surprise (Improvisation in dance and mind) / Exposed to gravity / Dance (A body with a mind of its own) / The cutting edge of awareness (Reports from the inside of improvisation) / A DUET WITH POSTMODERN DANCE : Anna Halprin and improvisation as child's play (A search for informed innocence) / Animate dancing (A practice in dance improvisation) / Learning to speak (An apprenticeship with Simone Forti in logomotion) / Spontaneous combustion (Notes on dance improvisation from the sixties to the nineties) / EXPANDING THE CANON : Stepping, stealing, sharing, and daring (Improvisation and the tap dance challenge) / The writing on the wall (Reading improvisation in flamenco and postmodern dance) / Improvisation as participating performance (Egungun masked dancers in the Yoruba tradition) / Against improvisation (A postmodernist makes the case for choreography) / Multiple pleasures (Improvisation in Bharatanatyam) / RECONSIDERING CONTACT IMPROVISATION : A subjective history of contact improvisation / Drafting interior techniques / Embodied meanings in performing, interpreting, and talking about dance improvisation / Weighting metaphors (A response to Raymond W. Gibbs and "Hilary") / Present tense (Contact improvisation at twenty-five) / IMPROVIASTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE : Some traveler's tales / What's the score? (Structured improvisation as national pastime) / For the taste of an apple (Why I practice Zen) / Life scores / EPILOGUE : Dwelling in possibility / David Gere -- Susan Leigh Foster -- Bruce Curtis -- Ruth Zaporah -- Kent De Spain -- Janice Ross -- Simone Forti -- Carmela Hermann -- Sally Banes -- Constance Valis Hill -- Michelle Heffner Hayes -- Margaret Thompson Drewal -- Victoria Marks -- Avanthi Meduri -- Nancy Stark Smith -- Steve Paxton -- Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. -- Karen Schaffman -- Ann Cooper Albright -- Rachel Kaplan -- Maura Keefe -- Ellen Webb -- Nancy Stark Smith -- Ann Cooper Albright.
0819566470 (cloth : alk. paper) 0819566489 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780819566485 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003012767
Improvisation in dance.
GV1781.2 / .T35 2003
792.8028 / ALB