Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-327) and index.
1. GENEALOGIES OF IMPROVISATION / 2. MAKING AND DOING / 3. ECONOMIES OF COMMUNITY / 4. SPEECH AS ACT / Interlude: Epistolary Choreographies from the Dance That Descrbes Itself -- 5. IMPROVISING CHOREOGRAPHY / Choreologue -- Voices in Text -- APPENDIX A: A Chronological Listing of Works by Richard Bull -- APPENDIX B: Selected Writings by Richard Bull -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Structuring Improvisation ; Appropriating the Improvisatory ; Scoring the Unanticipated ; Corporeal Spontaneity ; Improvised Democracies ; Conversations -- 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 -- Financing Dances ; The Warren Street Performance Loft ; Training and Rehearsing ; Interactions -- 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 -- Re-membering Past, Present, and Future ; Re-politicizing the Aesthetic --