Foster, Susan Leigh 1949-

Dances that describe themselves : the improvised choreography of Richard Bull / Susan Leigh Foster. - Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2002. - xiii, 334 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

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 --

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Bull, Richard, 1931-1998


Choreographers--United States--Biography.
Improvisation in dance.

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