The Oxford handbook of improvisation in dance /
Discussing improvisatory activities in dance, this handbook attests to the presence of improvisation in many forms of dance and to the ways improvisation has been developed and employed for far-reaching purposes. The handbook recognises that improvisation has been a long-standing and central approac...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Playing with the Beat: Choreomusical Improvisation in Tap Dance / Allison Robbins, Christopher J. Wells
- Dancing the Interface: Improvisation in Zones of Virtual Exchange / Thomas F. DeFrantz
- Modelling Improvisation as Emergence: A Critical Investigation of the Practice of Cognition / Colleen Dunagan, Roxane L. Fenton, Evan D. Dorn
- What Remains / Robert Bingham, Stephanie Hanna
- Moving Sound: New Relationships between Contemporary Dance and Music in Improvisation / Ana Sánchez-Colberg, Dimitris Karalis
- Improvisational Practices in Jazz Dance Battles / Jane Carr, Irven Lewis
- 'Mass may be the single most important sensation': Perceptual Philosophies in Dance Improvisation / Malaika Sarco-Thomas
- Somatic Sensing and Creaturely Knowing in the University Improvisation Class / Alison East
- Programmed Improvisation Inspired from Autonomous Humanoids / Amy LaViers
- Life Practices: Improvisation and the Politics of Curiosity / Ann Cooper Albright
- Improvisation and Habit / Gary Peters
- Contact Improvisation and Embodied Social Cognition / April Flakne
- Unpredictable Maneuvers: Eva Karczag's Improvised Strategies for Thwarting Institutional Agendas / Doran George
- Ethico-aesthetic practice of improvising: relations through motion / Fiona Bannon
- The Dancer, the Philosopher and the Tramp / Hilary Elliott
- Mens Agilis Corpore Agili / Ivar Hagendoorn
- Rethinking Improvisation from a Daoist perspective of Qi-energy / I-Ying Wu
- Lost in the Footlights: The Secret Life of Improvisation in Contemporary American Concert Dance / Kent De Spain
- The Emancipation of Improvisation / Larry Lavender
- Reflections on dance improvisation and its dynamic interrelationship with everyday movement / Libby Worth
- Instinctive Connections: Improvisation as a research methodology in health and care settings / Lisa Dowler
- Valorizing Uncertainty: Chance, Totalitarianism and Soviet Ballet / Janice Ross
- Dancing the Land: An Emerging Geopoetics / Melinda Buckwalter
- Towards a cognitive theory of joint improvisation: The case of tango argentino / Michael Kimmel
- Chance encounters, Nietzschean philosophy and the question of improvisation / Philipa Rothfield
- I notice that I'm noticing... / Sally Doughty
- Transcending Boundaries: Improvisation and disability in dance / Sarah Whatley
- Embodiology®: A Hybrid Neo-African Improvisation-as-Performance Practice distinguished by Dynamic Rhythm / S. Ama Wray
- Improvisation and Argentinean Tango: On playing with body memories / Susanne Ravn
- Improvisation and the Earth: Dancing in the Moment as Ecological Practice / Tamara Ashley
- Improvising Happiness: Belly Dance's Evolution through Improvisation / Barbara Sellers-Young
- Scoring and Siting: Improvisatory Approaches to Site-Specific Dance / Victoria Hunter
- Movements of freedom: performing popular liberty in the early cancan / Clare Parfitt-Brown
- Audience Improvisation and Immersive Experiences: the sensuous world of the body in the work of Lundahl & Seitl / Josephine Machon
- Artful humanising conversations: Improvisation in Early Years dance / Kerry Chappell, Lizzie Swinford
- Twelve Days in Tarbena: an evolutionary approach to moving through silence and sound to speech in Ruth Zaporah's Action Theater training / Robert Vesty
- Moving in medias res: Towards a phenomenological hermeneutics of dance improvisation / Nigel Stewart
- Embodied Consciousness in Improvised Performance / Nalina Wait
- Dancing Life / Norah Zuniga Shaw
- In the Moment: Improvisation in Traditional Dance / Anthony Shay
- Intention and Surrender / Stephanie Skura
- A Philosophy of the Improvisational Body / Sondra Fraleigh
- Exploring Uncertainties of Language in Dance Improvisation / Louise McDowall.