Taken by surprise
Subtitle: a dance improvisation reader
By: edited by Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere.
Contributors: Albright, Ann Cooper.; Gere, David.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press; Brand: Wesleyan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Improvisation in dance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Taken by surprise : improvisation in dance and mind / Susan Leigh Foster; title: Exposed to gravity / Bruce Curtis; title: Dance : a body with a mind of its own / Ruth Zaporah; title: The cutting edge of awareness : reports from the inside of improvisation / Kent De Spain; title: Anna Halprin and improvisation as child's play : a search for informed innocence / Janice Ross; title: Animate dancing : a practice in dance improvisation / Simone Forti; title: Learning to speak : an apprenticeship with Simone Forti in logomotion / Carmela Hermann; title: Spontaneous combustion : notes on dance improvisation from the sixties to the nineties / Sally Banes; title: Stepping, stealing, sharing, and daring : improvisation and the tap dance challenge / Constance Valis Hill; title: The writing on the wall : reading improvisation in flamenco and postmodern dance / Michelle Heffner Hayes; title: Improvisation as participatory performance : egungun masked dancers in the Yoruba tradition / Margaret Thompson Drewal; title: Against improvisation : a postmodernist makes the case for choreography / Victoria Marks; title: Multiple pleasures : improvisation in bharatanatyam / Avanthi Meduri; title: A subjective history of contact improvisation / Nancy Stark Smith; title: Drafting interior techniques / Steve Paxton; title: Embodied meanings in performing, interpreting, and talking about dance improvisation / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.; title: Weighting metaphors : a response to Raymond W. Gibbs and "Hilary" / Karen Schaffman; title: Present tense : contact improvisation at twenty-five / Ann Cooper Albright; title: Some traveler's tales / Rachel Kaplan; title: What's the score? : structured improvisation as national pastime / Maura Keefe; title: For the taste of an apple : why I practice Zen / Ellen Webb; title: Life scores / Nancy Stark Smith; title: Dwelling in possibility / Ann Cooper Albright.