Caught Falling: The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas

Name: Caught Falling: The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas
Brand: Wesleyan University Press
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The inside-out of dancer/Contact Quarterly editor Nancy Stark Smith's life as seen through the kaleidoscope of her thirty-six year involvement with Contact Improvisation. The book includes Q&As between the authors tracing the history of the dance form; photos of dancing and living; life stories; anecdotes from friends, colleagues, and family; and a description of Stark Smith's Underscore. The Underscore is a framework for practicing and researching dance improvisation that Stark Smith has been developing since the early 1990s. It is a score that guides dancers through a series of changing states from solo deepening/releasing and sensitizing to gravity and support, through group circulation and interaction, Contact Improvisation engagements, opening out to full group improvisation with compositional awareness, and back to rest and reflection.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

128

Release Date:

2021-03-16

Publication Date:

2021-03-16

Publisher:

Wesleyan University Press

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0937645095

ISBN13:

9780937645093

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

616 g

Height:

213 cm

Width:

347 cm

Thickness:

10 cm

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