The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Midgelow, Vida L.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From the dance floor of a tango club to group therapy classes, from ballet to community theatre, improvised dance is everywhere. For some dance artists, improvisation is one of many approaches within the choreographic process. For others, it is a performance form in its own right. And while it has long been practiced, it is only within the last twenty years that dance improvisation has become a topic of critical inquiry. With The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance, dancer, teacher, and editor Vida L. Midgelow provides a cutting-edge volume on dance improvisation in all its facets. Expanding beyond conventional dance frameworks, this handbook looks at the ways that dance improvisation practices reflect our ability to adapt, communicate, and respond to our environment. Throughout the handbook, case studies from a variety of disciplines showcase the role of individual agency and collective relationships in improvisation, not just to dancers but to people of all backgrounds and abilities. In doing so, chapters celebrate all forms of improvisation, and unravel the ways that this kind of movement informs understandings of history, socio-cultural conditions, lived experience, cognition, and technologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199397006
• Artikelnr.: 56820049

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