TY  - BOOK
AU  - Albright,Ann Cooper
AU  - Gere,David
TI  - Taken by surprise: a dance improvisation reader 
SN  - 0819566470
AV  - GV1781.2 .T35 2003
PY  - 2003///]
CY  - Middletown, Conn.
PB  - Wesleyan University Press
KW  - Improvisation in dance
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
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