Title: Dances that describe themselves : the improvised choreography of Richard Bull /
Authors: Foster, Susan Leigh.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Bull, Richard,; Choreographers United States Biography; Improvisation in dance.
Contents: 1. Genealogies of Improvisation -- Structuring Improvisation -- Appropriating the Improvisatory -- Scoring the Unanticipated -- Corporeal Spontaneity -- Improvised Democracies -- Conversations -- 2. Making and Doing -- 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 -- 3. Economies of Community -- Financing Dances -- The Warren Street Performance Loft -- Training and Rehearsing -- 4. Speech as Act -- 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 -- Interlude: Epistolary Choreographies from the Dance That Descrbes Itself -- 5. Improvising Choreography -- Re-membering Past, Present, and Future -- App. A.A Chronological Listing of Works by Richard Bull -- App. B. Selected Writings by Richard Bull.