Contact Improvisation An Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form

Name: Contact Improvisation An Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form
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ISBN: 9780786426478

ISBN-10: 0786426470

ISBN-13: 9780786426478

Edition: 2006

Authors: Cheryl Pallant

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In most forms of dancing, performers carry out their steps with a distance that keeps them from colliding with each other. Dancer Steve Paxton in the 1970s considered this distance a territory for investigation. His study of intentional contact resulted in a public performance in 1972 in a Soho gallery, and the name "contact improvisation" was coined for the form of unrehearsed dance he introduced. Rather than copyrighting it, Paxton allowed it to evolve and spread. In this book the author draws upon her own experience and research to explain the art of contact improvisation, in which dance partners propel movement by physical contact. They roll, fall, spiral, leap, and slip along the…

Book details

Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 7/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 207
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Cheryl Pallant is a dancer, dance critic, and teacher at the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University. She leads contact improvisation workshops around the world.



Acknowledgments


Preface


Prologue



The Creative Body: Source of a New Form



The Practicing Body: Contact Improvisation Fundamentals



The Knowing Body: Self and Identity



The Entitled Body: Politics and Privilege



The Relating Body: Alienation and Orientation



The Tribal Body: Creating Community



The Dancing Body: A Teacher's Sampler


Small Dance



Shakedown (excerpt)



Developmental Movement Warm-up



Increasing Awareness of the Spine



A Class on the Back



Magic Wands



Vessel in a Hand



Defying Gravity



Down to Go Up Mixer



Saying No



Koan Dancing



Glossary



Setting Up a Weekly Contact Improvisation Jam



Resources


Notes


Bibliography


Index