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279

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Taken by Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader
October 24, 2003, Wesleyan
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Taken by surprise: a dance improvisation reader
2003, Wesleyan University Press, Brand: Wesleyan
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Table of 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 participatory 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Middletown, Conn

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Library of Congress
GV1781.2 .T35 2003, GV1781.2.T35 2003

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Pagination
xxi, 279 p. :
Number of pages
279

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Open Library
OL15565153M
Internet Archive
takenbysurprised0000unse
ISBN 10
0819566470, 0819566489
LCCN
2003012767
OCLC/WorldCat
52412060
Library Thing
6550754
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530330

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