{"product_id":"oxford-handbook-of-improvisation-in-dance-9780199396986","title":"Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the dance floor of a tango club to group therapy classes, from ballet to community theatre, improvised dance is everywhere. For some dance artists, improvisation is one of many approaches within the choreographic process. For others, it is a performance form in its own right. And while it has long been practiced, it is only within the last twenty years that dance improvisation has become a topic of critical inquiry. With The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance, dancer, teacher, and editor Vida L. Midgelow provides a cutting-edge volume on dance improvisation in all its facets. Expanding beyond conventional dance frameworks, this handbook looks at the ways that dance improvisation practices reflect our ability to adapt, communicate, and respond to our environment. Throughout the handbook, case studies from a variety of disciplines showcase the role of individual agency and collective relationships in improvisation, not just to dancers but to people of all backgrounds and abilities. In doing so, chapters celebrate all forms of improvisation, and unravel the ways that this kind of movement informs understandings of history, socio-cultural conditions, lived experience, cognition, and technologies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost contributors are from the US, the UK, and Continental Europe, and they range from young scholars to scholars with years of experience. This range makes the volume useful for a broad audience. The fairly consistent and approachable length of each essay (15-20 pages) will encourage comparative readings. Well-sourced references accompany each piece, and a helpful index is included. ... Highly recommended * CHOICE  *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Improvising Dance: A Way of Going About Things Vida L Midgelow   Section 1: Life worlds and Ethics   1. Life Practices  Ann Cooper Albright  2. Ethico-aesthetic practice of improvising: relations through motion Fiona Bannon  3. Reflections on dance improvisation and its dynamic interrelationship with everyday movement Libby Worth   4. A Philosophy of the Improvisational Body Sondra Fraleigh  5. Chance encounters, Nietzschean philosophy and the question of improvisation Philipa Rothfield   6. Moving in medias res: Towards a phenomenological hermeneutics of dance   improvisation Nigel Stewart     Section 2: Attunement and Perception  7. I notice that I'm noticingEL Sally Doughty   8. Embodied Consciousness in Improvised Performance Nalina Wait  9. 'Mass may be the single most important sensation': Perceptual Philosophies in Dance Improvisation  Malaka Sacro-Thomas  10. Rethinking Improvisation from a Daoist perspective of Qi-energy I-Ying Wu  11. Exploring Uncertainties of Language in Dance Improvisation  Louise McDowall   Section 3: Habit, Freedom and Resistance  12. Improvisation and Habit Gary Peters    13. Unpredictable Maneuvers: Eva Karczag's Improvised Strategies for Thwarting Institutional Agendas  Doran George   14. Movements of freedom: performing popular liberty in the early cancan Claire Parfitt-Brown   15. Valorizing Uncertainty: Chance, Totalitarianism and Soviet Ballet Janice Ross   16. The Emancipation of Improvisation  Larry Lavender    Section 4: Memory and Transmission  17. Improvisation and Argentinean Tango:  On playing with body memories  Susanne Ravn  18. Dancing Life Norah Zuniga Shaw   19. What Remains  Robert Bingham \u0026amp; Stephanie Hanna  20. Improvisational Practices in Jazz Dance Battles Jane Carr and Irven Lewis  21. Twelve Days in Tarbena: an evolutionary approach to moving through silence and sound to speech in Ruth Zaporah's Action Theater training Robert Vesty  22. Intention and Surrender Stephanie Skura    Section 5: Agency and Transformation  23. Transcending Boundaries: Improvisation and disability in dance  Sarah Whatley  24. Artful humanising conversations: Improvisation in Early Years dance Kerry Chappell and Lizzie Swinford    25. Instinctive Connections: Improvisation as a research methodology in health and care settings Lisa Dowler  26. Somatic Sensing and Creaturely Knowing in the University Improvisation Class Ali East  27. Improvising Happiness: Belly Dance's Evolution through Improvisation Barbara Sellers Young    Section 6: Interconnectivity, emergence and technologies  28. Dancing the Interface: Improvisation in Zones of Virtual Exchange  Thomas DeFrantz   29. Programmed Improvisation Inspied from Autonomous Humanoids Amy LaVeirs  30. Contact Improvisation and Embodied Social Cognition April Flakne  31. Modelling Improvisation as Emergence: A Critical Investigation of the Practice of Cognition Colleen Dunagan, Roxane Fenton, and Evan Dorn  32. Towards a cognitive theory of joint improvisation: The case of tango argentino Micheal Kimmel   Section 7: Ecology and Environments  33. Improvisation and the Earth: Dancing in the Moment as Ecological Practice Tamara Ashley   34. Dancing the Land: An Emerging Geopoetics Melinda Buckwalter    35. Scoring and Siting: Improvisatory Approaches to Site-Specific Dance Victoria Hunter    36. The Dancer, the Philosopher and the Tramp  Hilary Elliot   37. Audience Improvisation and Immersive Experiences:  the sensuous world of the body in the work of Lundahl \u0026amp; Seitl Josephine Machon    Section 8: Techniques, Strategies and Histories  38. Lost in the Footlights: The Secret Life of Improvisation in Contemporary American Concert Dance Kent De Spain   39. In the Moment: Improvisation in Traditional Dance Anthony Shay   40. Playing with the Beat: Choreomusical Improvisation in Rhythm Tap Dance Allison Robbins \u0026amp; Christopher J. Wells  41. Moving Sound: New Relationships between Contemporary Dance and Music in Improvisation Anna Sanchez Colberg \u0026amp; Dimitris Karalis  42. Mens Agilis Corpore Agili Ivar Hagendoorn    43. Embodiology®: A Hybrid Neo-African Improvisation-as-Performance Practice distinguished by Dynamic Rhythm Sheron Wray","brand":"OUP USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017633595735,"sku":"9780199396986","price":155.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780199396986.jpg?v=1750774186","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/oxford-handbook-of-improvisation-in-dance-9780199396986","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}