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010 _a2003012767
020 _a0819566470 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _a0819566489 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _a9780819566485 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 _a(OCoLC) 52412060
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050 0 0 _aGV1781.2
_b.T35 2003
082 0 4 _221
_a792.8028
_bALB
245 0 0 _aTaken by surprise :
_ba dance improvisation reader /
_cedited by Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere.
260 _aMiddletown, Conn. :
_bWesleyan University Press,
_c©2003.
300 _axxi, 279 p. :
_bill. ;
_c26 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _tINTRODUCTION /
_rDavid Gere --
_tIMPROVISING BODY, IMPROVISING MIND :
_tTaken by surprise (Improvisation in dance and mind) /
_rSusan Leigh Foster --
_tExposed to gravity /
_rBruce Curtis --
_tDance (A body with a mind of its own) /
_rRuth Zaporah --
_t The cutting edge of awareness (Reports from the inside of improvisation) /
_rKent De Spain --
_tA DUET WITH POSTMODERN DANCE :
_tAnna Halprin and improvisation as child's play (A search for informed innocence) /
_rJanice Ross --
_tAnimate dancing (A practice in dance improvisation) /
_rSimone Forti --
_tLearning to speak (An apprenticeship with Simone Forti in logomotion) /
_rCarmela Hermann --
_tSpontaneous combustion (Notes on dance improvisation from the sixties to the nineties) /
_rSally Banes --
_tEXPANDING THE CANON :
_tStepping, stealing, sharing, and daring (Improvisation and the tap dance challenge) /
_rConstance Valis Hill --
_tThe writing on the wall (Reading improvisation in flamenco and postmodern dance) /
_rMichelle Heffner Hayes --
_tImprovisation as participating performance (Egungun masked dancers in the Yoruba tradition) /
_rMargaret Thompson Drewal --
_tAgainst improvisation (A postmodernist makes the case for choreography) /
_rVictoria Marks --
_tMultiple pleasures (Improvisation in Bharatanatyam) /
_r Avanthi Meduri --
_tRECONSIDERING CONTACT IMPROVISATION :
_tA subjective history of contact improvisation /
_rNancy Stark Smith --
_tDrafting interior techniques /
_rSteve Paxton --
_tEmbodied meanings in performing, interpreting, and talking about dance improvisation /
_rRaymond W. Gibbs, Jr. --
_tWeighting metaphors (A response to Raymond W. Gibbs and "Hilary") /
_rKaren Schaffman --
_tPresent tense (Contact improvisation at twenty-five) /
_rAnn Cooper Albright --
_tIMPROVIASTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE :
_tSome traveler's tales /
_rRachel Kaplan --
_tWhat's the score? (Structured improvisation as national pastime) /
_rMaura Keefe --
_tFor the taste of an apple (Why I practice Zen) /
_rEllen Webb --
_tLife scores /
_rNancy Stark Smith --
_tEPILOGUE :
_tDwelling in possibility /
_rAnn Cooper Albright.
650 0 _aImprovisation in dance.
700 1 _4edt
_aAlbright, Ann Cooper
_d1959-
700 1 _4edt
_aGere, David
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
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