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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Midgelow, Vida (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Series:Oxford handbooks online.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.