Dances That Describe Themselves The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull

Name: Dances That Describe Themselves The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull
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ISBN: 9780819565518

ISBN-10: 0819565512

ISBN-13: 9780819565518

Edition: 2002

Authors: Susan Leigh Foster, Susan Foster

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In Dances That Describe Themselves, Susan Leigh Foster leads an inquiry into improvisation as practised by Richard Bull and his contemporaries. Foster is also the author of Reading Dancing and Choreography and Narrative.

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 9/4/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.26" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Genealogies of Improvisation


Structuring Improvisation


Appropriating the Improvisatory


Scoring the Unanticipated


Corporeal Spontaneity


Improvised Democracies


Conversations



Making and Doing


Daniel Nagrin's Workgroup


The Grand Union


Dianne McIntyre's Sounds in Motion


Contact Improvisation


Richard Bull's New York Chamber Dance Group


Improvising Community



Economies of Community


Financing Dances


The Warren Street Performance Loft


Training and Rehearsing


Interactions



Speech as Act


Talking Dance


Signifying Dancing


The Grand Union


Trisha Brown's Accumulation (1971) with Talking (1973) Plus Watermotor (1977)


Bill T. Jones's Floating the Tongue and 21


Ishmael Houston-Jones's Part 2: Relatives


Person-abilities


Storying Dance


Interlude: Epistolary Choreographies from the Dance that Describes Itself



Improvising Choreography


Re-membering Past, Present, and Future


Re-politicizing the Aesthetic


Choreologue


Voices in the Text



A Chronological Listing of Works by Richard Bull



Selected Writings by Richard Bull


Notes


Bibliography


Index