Annotation A leading critic traces three decades of contemporary dance from Balanchine to breakdancing.
"A great resource for beginning through advanced choreography and dance improvisation courses. There is no book similar to this currently available."--Maura Keefe, resident scholar at Jacob's Pillow Festival and associate professor at SUNY Brockport. Composing while Dancing: An…
Composing while Dancing: An Improviser's Companion examines the world of improvisational dance and the varied approaches to this art form. By introducing the improvisational strategies of twenty-six top contemporary artists of movement improvisation, Melinda Buckwalter offers a …
"A critical analysis of the work of choreographer Anna Sokolow"--
There is no archive or museum of human movement where choreographies can be collected and conserved in pristine form. The central consequence of this is the incapacity of philosophy and aesthetics to think of dance as a positive and empirical art. In the eyes of philosophers, da…
"There is no archive or museum of human movement, no place where choreographies can be collected and conserved in pristine form. The central consequence of this is the incapacity of philosophy and aesthetics to think of dance as a positive and empirical art. In the eyes of philo…
