I Want to Be Ready Improvised Dance As a Practice of Freedom

Name: I Want to Be Ready Improvised Dance As a Practice of Freedom
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ISBN: 9780472050840

ISBN-10: 0472050842

ISBN-13: 9780472050840

Edition: 2010

Authors: Danielle Goldman

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"This book will become the single most important reflection on the question of improvisation, a question which has become foundational to dance itself. The achievement ofI Want to Be Readylies not simply in its mastery of the relevant literature within dance, but in its capacity to engage dance in a deep and abiding dialogue with other expressive forms, to think improvisation through myriad sites and a rich vein of cultural diversity, and to join improvisation in dance with its manifestations in life so as to consider what constitutes dance's own politics." ---Randy Martin, Tisch School of Arts at New York University I Want To Be Readydraws on original archival research, careful readings of…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 5/4/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 186
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction: The Land of the Free



Mambo's Open Shines: Causing Circles at the Palladium



We Insist! Seeing Music and Hearing Dance



Bodies on the Line: Contact Improvisation and Techniques of Nonviolent Protest



The Breathing Show: Improvisation in the Work of Bill T. Jones


Conclusion: Exquisite Dancing-Altering the Terrain of Tight Places


Notes


Bibliography


Index