Improvised Dance

This book elucidates the technical aspects of improvised dance performance and reframes the notion of labour in the practice from one that is either based on compositionally formal logic or a mysterious impulse, to one that addresses the (in)corporeal dimensions of practice.

Autorentext

Nalina Wait is a dance artist and pracademic currently lecturing at the Australian College of Physical Education. She is of Irish settler descent and lives on Gadigal Country in Eora, Sydney. Her interests are the practice and performance of dance improvisation, somatics, and the cultivation of somatic intelligence.

Inhalt

1. Western Improvised Dance: Practices, Pedagogies, and Language 2. Dewey and the Pre-history of Western Improvisation 3. Embodied Consciousness 4. Resonance of Affect and Immanent Evaluation 5. The Aesthetics of an Ethics of Being 6. Cultivating Movement Systems 7. Prohibitive and Emancipative Self-Surveillance