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Title

Taken by surprise : a dance improvisation reader / edited by Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere.

Publication

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Albright, Ann Cooper.
• Gere, David.
• Foster, Susan Leigh.
• Curtis, Bruce.
• Zaporah, Ruth, 1936-
• De Spain, Kent.
• Ross, Janice.
• Forti, Simone.
• Hermann, Carmela.
• Banes, Sally.
• Hill, Constance Valis.
• Heffner, Michelle.
• Drewal, Margaret Thompson.
• Marks, Victoria.
• Meduri, Avanthi.
• Smith, Nancy Stark.
• Paxton, Steve.
• Gibbs, Raymond W.
• Schaffman, Karen Helen.
• Kaplan, Rachel.
• Keefe, Maura.
• Webb, Ellen.

Description

xxi, 279 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subjects

• Improvisation in dance
• Contact improvisation

Note

• Includes brief biographies of the editors and contributors (p. 267-271).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Dwelling in possibility / Ann Cooper Albright.

Call Number

*MGRL 04-3581

ISBN

• 0819566470 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0819566489 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003012767

OCLC

• 52412060
• NYPY05-B15

Title

Taken by surprise : a dance improvisation reader / edited by Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere.

Imprint

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2003.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

Section headings: Improvising body, improvising mind -- A duet with postmodern dance -- Expanding the canon -- Reconsidering contact improvisation -- Improvisation in everyday life.

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Table of contents

Local Subject

Contact improvisation.

Added Author

Albright, Ann Cooper.

Gere, David.

Foster, Susan Leigh.

Curtis, Bruce.

Zaporah, Ruth, 1936-

De Spain, Kent.

Ross, Janice.

Forti, Simone.

Hermann, Carmela.

Banes, Sally.

Hill, Constance Valis.

Heffner, Michelle.

Drewal, Margaret Thompson.

Marks, Victoria.

Meduri, Avanthi.

Smith, Nancy Stark.

Paxton, Steve.

Gibbs, Raymond W.

Schaffman, Karen Helen.

Kaplan, Rachel.

Keefe, Maura.

Webb, Ellen.

Research Call Number

*MGRL 04-3581