Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance

Herausgeber: Midgelow, Vida L

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Produktbeschreibung

This handbook offers new arguments about the ways that dance improvisation informs understandings of history, socio-cultural conditions, lived experience, and technologies.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 832
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 176mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1528g
• ISBN-13: 9780199396986
• ISBN-10: 0199396981
• Artikelnr.: 53301197

Autorenporträt

Vida L Midgelow is Professor in Dance and Choregraphic Practices at Middlesex University. Her interests, that encompass somatics, improvisation, and practice-as-research, have become increasingly methodological in focus leading to publications such as Improvisation as paradigm for Phenomenology (2018); "Some Fleshy Thinking: Improvisation, Experience, Perception" (2015) and "Creative Articulations Process" (2015). She is the Director of the Erasmus Plus funded Artistic Doctorates in Europe Project and co-editor of the hybrid peer reviewed journal Choreographic Practices.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction. Improvising Dance: A Way of Going About Things
* Vida L Midgelow
* Section 1: Life worlds and Ethics
* 1. Life Practices
* Ann Cooper Albright
* 2. Ethico-aesthetic practice of improvising: relations through motion
* Fiona Bannon
* 3. Reflections on dance improvisation and its dynamic
interrelationship with everyday movement
* Libby Worth
* 4. A Philosophy of the Improvisational Body
* Sondra Fraleigh
* 5. Chance encounters, Nietzschean philosophy and the question of
improvisation Philipa Rothfield
* 6. Moving in medias res: Towards a phenomenological hermeneutics of
dance improvisation
* Nigel Stewart
* Section 2: Attunement and Perception
* 7. I notice that I'm noticing...
* Sally Doughty
* 8. Embodied Consciousness in Improvised Performance
* Nalina Wait
* 9. 'Mass may be the single most important sensation': Perceptual
Philosophies in Dance Improvisation
* Malaka Sacro-Thomas
* 10. Rethinking Improvisation from a Daoist perspective of Qi-energy
* I-Ying Wu
* 11. Exploring Uncertainties of Language in Dance Improvisation
* Louise McDowall
* Section 3: Habit, Freedom and Resistance
* 12. Improvisation and Habit
* Gary Peters
* 13. Unpredictable Maneuvers: Eva Karczag's Improvised Strategies for
Thwarting Institutional Agendas
* Doran George
* 14. Movements of freedom: performing popular liberty in the early
cancan
* Claire Parfitt-Brown
* 15. Valorizing Uncertainty: Chance, Totalitarianism and Soviet Ballet
* Janice Ross
* 16. The Emancipation of Improvisation
* Larry Lavender
* Section 4: Memory and Transmission
* 17. Improvisation and Argentinean Tango: On playing with body
memories
* Susanne Ravn
* 18. Dancing Life
* Norah Zuniga Shaw
* 19. What Remains
* Robert Bingham and Stephanie Hanna
* 20. Improvisational Practices in Jazz Dance Battles
* Jane Carr and Irven Lewis
* 21. Twelve Days in Tarbena: an evolutionary approach to moving
through silence and sound to speech in Ruth Zaporah's Action Theater
training
* Robert Vesty
* 22. Intention and Surrender
* Stephanie Skura
* Section 5: Agency and Transformation
* 23. Transcending Boundaries: Improvisation and disability in dance
* Sarah Whatley
* 24. Artful humanising conversations: Improvisation in Early Years
dance
* Kerry Chappell and Lizzie Swinford
* 25. Instinctive Connections: Improvisation as a research methodology
in health and care settings
* Lisa Dowler
* 26. Somatic Sensing and Creaturely Knowing in the University
Improvisation Class
* Ali East
* 27. Improvising Happiness: Belly Dance's Evolution through
Improvisation
* Barbara Sellers Young
* Section 6: Interconnectivity, emergence and technologies
* 28. Dancing the Interface: Improvisation in Zones of Virtual Exchange
* Thomas DeFrantz
* 29. Programmed Improvisation Inspied from Autonomous Humanoids
* Amy LaVeirs
* 30. Contact Improvisation and Embodied Social Cognition
* April Flakne
* 31. Modelling Improvisation as Emergence: A Critical Investigation of
the Practice of Cognition
* Colleen Dunagan, Roxane Fenton, and Evan Dorn
* 32. Towards a cognitive theory of joint improvisation: The case of
tango argentino
* Micheal Kimmel
* Section 7: Ecology and Environments
* 33. Improvisation and the Earth: Dancing in the Moment as Ecological
Practice
* Tamara Ashley
* 34. Dancing the Land: An Emerging Geopoetics
* Melinda Buckwalter
* 35. Scoring and Siting: Improvisatory Approaches to Site-Specific
Dance
* Victoria Hunter
* 36. The Dancer, the Philosopher and the Tramp
* Hilary Elliot
* 37. Audience Improvisation and Immersive Experiences: the sensuous
world of the body in the work of Lundahl and Seitl
* Josephine Machon
* Section 8: Techniques, Strategies and Histories
* 38. Lost in the Footlights: The Secret Life of Improvisation in
Contemporary American Concert Dance
* Kent De Spain
* 39. In the Moment: Improvisation in Traditional Dance
* Anthony Shay
* 40. Playing with the Beat: Choreomusical Improvisation in Rhythm Tap
Dance
* Allison Robbins and Christopher J. Wells
* 41. Moving Sound: New Relationships between Contemporary Dance and
Music in Improvisation
* Anna Sanchez Colberg and Dimitris Karalis
* 42. Mens Agilis Corpore Agili
* Ivar Hagendoorn
* 43. Embodiology®: A Hybrid Neo-African Improvisation-as-Performance
Practice distinguished by Dynamic Rhythm
* Sheron Wray