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245 _aTaken by surprise :
_ba dance improvisation reader /
_c edited by Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere.
260 _aMiddletown, Conn. :
_bWesleyan University Press,
_c2003.
300 _axxi, 279 p. :
_bill. ;
_c26 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aTaken 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.
650 0 _aImprovisation in dance.
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700 1 _aAlbright, Ann Cooper.
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700 1 _aGere, David.
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856 4 1 _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip045/2003012767.html
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