TY  - BOOK
AU  - Albright,Ann Cooper
AU  - Gere,David
TI  - Taken by surprise: a dance improvisation reader 
SN  - 0819566470 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - GV1781.2 .T35 2003
U1  - 792.8028 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Middletown, Conn.
PB  - Wesleyan University Press
KW  - Improvisation in dance
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; INTRODUCTION; David Gere --; IMPROVISING BODY, IMPROVISING MIND; Taken by surprise (Improvisation in dance and mind); Susan Leigh Foster --; Exposed to gravity; Bruce Curtis --; Dance (A body with a mind of its own); Ruth Zaporah --;  The cutting edge of awareness (Reports from the inside of improvisation); Kent De Spain --; A DUET WITH POSTMODERN DANCE; Anna Halprin and improvisation as child's play (A search for informed innocence) /; Janice Ross --; Animate dancing (A practice in dance improvisation) /; Simone Forti --; Learning to speak (An apprenticeship with Simone Forti in logomotion) /; Carmela Hermann --; Spontaneous combustion (Notes on dance improvisation from the sixties to the nineties) /; Sally Banes --; EXPANDING THE CANON; Stepping, stealing, sharing, and daring (Improvisation and the tap dance challenge) /; Constance Valis Hill --; The writing on the wall (Reading improvisation in flamenco and postmodern dance) /; Michelle Heffner Hayes --; Improvisation as participating performance (Egungun masked dancers in the Yoruba tradition) /; Margaret Thompson Drewal --; Against improvisation (A postmodernist makes the case for choreography) /; Victoria Marks --; Multiple pleasures (Improvisation in Bharatanatyam);  Avanthi Meduri --; RECONSIDERING CONTACT IMPROVISATION; A subjective history of contact improvisation /; Nancy Stark Smith --; Drafting interior techniques /; Steve Paxton --; Embodied meanings in performing, interpreting, and talking about dance improvisation /; Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. --; Weighting metaphors (A response to Raymond W. Gibbs and "Hilary") /; Karen Schaffman --; Present tense (Contact improvisation at twenty-five) /; Ann Cooper Albright --; IMPROVIASTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE; Some traveler's tales /; Rachel Kaplan --; What's the score? (Structured improvisation as national pastime) /; Maura Keefe --; For the taste of an apple (Why I practice Zen) /; Ellen Webb --; Life scores /; Nancy Stark Smith --; EPILOGUE; Dwelling in possibility; Ann Cooper Albright
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip045/2003012767.html
ER  -