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Author Lerman, Liz

Title Hiking the Horizontal : Field Notes from a Choreographer
Published Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (353 pages)
Contents Cover; Hiking the Horizontal; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Questions as a Way of Life; Fueling the Imagination; Asking Questions as a Way of Life; Two Dances: The Oldest and One Not Yet Made; Wondering about Books; The Sounds of St. Albans; Was Einstein a Choreographer?; Influence, Inquiry, Action; Who Gets to Dance?; Manifesto; The Roosevelt, Dancing; The Shipyard, Dancing; Speech and Silence: The Who Matters; A Liberation in the Gallery; Being Another: One Kind of Technique; What Is the Dancing About?; I Met a Physicist
Finding the Fish: On Meaning, Narrative, and Subject Matter DancingDancing on Both Sides of the Brain: An Essay in Text and Movement; Justice and Genetics: Two Program Notes; The Problem of Abstraction; Two Ways to Be an Angel; Portfolio of Site-Specific Dances; Where Is the Dance Happening?; Scene at a Bedside; Choreographing Space; My Favorite Night at Temple Micah; The Stage and Why It Matters; Three Places, Three Stories; Structures and Underpinnings; A Brief Conversation with a Friend; What Happens on a Residency?; Dilemmas of Practice in Art and Healing: Response to an E-mail
Structure: The Container That Holds the DanceWhat Is the Toolbox?; Rehearsal, Defined and Redefined; Free Fall; Portfolio of Stage Dances; Transdomain Practices; Calling the Ancestors; In Defense of Creative Research; Onward with Petichta; Fresh Readings: Reviewing Books on Tango and Nureyev; Ruminations and Curiosities: A Series of Anecdotes and the Questions That Follow; Partnering and People; Seven Paths to Creativity; Politics; Two Assertions; A Return to Inquiry; Activism, Professionalism, Purity
It Is Easier to Be against President Bush Than It Is to Change Small Dynamics in Our Own FieldA Job Swap and Slow Banking: Two Op-Eds; Pushing Back: A Rant in Three Movements; Small Righteous Angers; Bulky Love; To the Attendance Monitor at Sligo Creek Middle School; Motherhood: Stories and an Interview; Representation Found and Lost; Critical Response at Home; Bulky Love; Epilogue; Some Afterthoughts for the Paperback Edition; Appendix: List of Choreographed Works, 1974-2010; Index
Summary Award-winning choreographer shares insights and methods for making real art in the real world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Lerman, Liz
SUBJECT Lerman, Liz fast
Lerman, Liz 1948- gnd
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Subject Women choreographers -- United States -- Biography
Choreography -- United States -- Philosophy
Modern dance -- United States -- Philosophy
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Choreography -- Philosophy
Modern dance -- Philosophy
Women choreographers
Choreografie
Choreografin
Modern Dance
Modern dance.
Choreographie.
Koreografer -- Förenta staterna.
Kvinnor.
Choreographie.
Choreographin.
United States
USA.
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780819575593
0819575593