| Description |
xiii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Genealogies of Improvisation -- Structuring Improvisation -- Appropriating the Improvisatory -- Scoring the Unanticipated -- Corporeal Spontaneity -- Improvised Democracies -- Conversations -- 2. 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 -- 3. Economies of Community -- Financing Dances -- The Warren Street Performance Loft -- Training and Rehearsing -- 4. 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 Descrbes Itself -- 5. Improvising Choreography -- Re-membering Past, Present, and Future |
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App. A. A Chronological Listing of Works by Richard Bull -- App. B. Selected Writings by Richard Bull |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-327) and index |
| Subject |
Bull, Richard.
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Choreographers -- United States -- Biography.
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Improvisation in dance.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2002006149 |
| ISBN |
0819565504 alkaline paper |
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0819565512 paperback alkaline paper |
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