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1	Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture more books like this by Cynthia J Novack add to wishlist Growing out of the 1960s avant-garde and counterculture, contact improvization is an underground, experimental movement in modern dance that captures artistic and social forces in transition. Cynthia Novack considers the development of this dance form within its historical, social and cultural contexts. While focusing on the changing practice of ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $21.52! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance more books like this by Eric N Franklin add to wishlist This reference text provides 574 imagery exercises designed to improve dance technique, artistic expression, and performance. Part 1 explores imagery in the improvizational setting - 171 exercises are centered around the body's basic movement images. Part II seeks to demonstrate how to use the 280 imagery exercises in their dance technique classes ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $21.76! \| SVS
3	The Moment of Movement: Dance Improvisation more books like this by Lynne A. Blom, L. Tarin Chaplin add to wishlist see all copies from $4.39! new only from $245.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Dance Improvisations more books like this by Joyce Morgenroth add to wishlist "Dance Improvisations" is a book for teachers of dance and acting, choreographers, directors, and dance therapists. Systematically offering a complete range of ways to explore dance, it can be used as a syllabus or as a reference for groups of all ages and all levels of experience. The first chapter in "Dance Improvisations" introduces ways for a ... see all copies from $14.06! new only from $14.06! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Taken by Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader more books like this by Ann Cooper Albright (Editor), David Gere (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of classic and contemporary writings on dance improvisation brings together 21 essays by prominent dancers, scholars and historians. It reflects the development of improvisation as a compositional and performance mode in a wide variety of dance contexts, including dance traditions from around the globe, such as Yoruban masked dance ... see all copies from $26.45! new only from $26.45!
6	Dances That Describe Themselves: The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull more books like this by Susan Leigh Foster add to wishlist Here, Susan Leigh Foster leads an inquiry into improvization as practised by Richard Bull and his contemporaries. Foster is also the author of "Reading Dancing and Choreography and Narrative". see all copies from $20.08! new only from $20.58! \| SVS
7	Inside Tap: Technique and Improvisation for Today's Tap Dancer more books like this by Anita Feldman add to wishlist This comprehensive guide to tap offers traditional and improvisational instruction for the beginner and new, innovative material for the intermediate and advanced dancer. It reviews the basics, and then progresses through creativity and musicality, rhythm, dynamics, and syncopation. Traditional steps such as the Shim Sham Shimmy are taught as well ... see all copies from $4.81! new only from $15.00!
8	Contact Improvisation: An Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form more books like this by Cheryl Pallant add to wishlist In most forms of dancing, performers carry out their steps with a distance that keeps them from colliding with each other. Dancer, Steve Paxton in the 1970s considered this distance a territory for investigation. His study of intentional contact resulted in a public performance in 1972 in a Soho gallery, and the name "contact improvisation" was ... see all copies from $24.95! new only from $54.61!
9	Moment of Movement more books like this by Lynne Blom, L Tarin Chaplin (Photographer) add to wishlist A guide to dance improvisation. see all copies from $30.53! new only from $30.53!
10	Dance and the Specific Image: Improvisation more books like this by Daniel Nagrin add to wishlist After a career in dance as a performer, choreographer, and teacher - Daniel Nagrin has now written this book. In it he explores the roots of his aesthetic philosophy, influenced by Stanislavski, Helen Tamiris, Joseph Chaikin and the Open Theatre, and his work on and off Broadway as an actor and a dancer. "Dance and the Specific Image" includes ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $59.95!
11	Movement Improvisation: In the Words of a Teacher and Her Students more books like this by Georgette Schneer add to wishlist In this outstanding text, Georgette Schneer, former director of the Harlem Dance and Theatre Company, shares the knowledge she has gained in more than four decades of teaching dance. Future dance educators will learn about the many benefits of movement improvisation, the principles involved in teaching it, and the techniques used to stimulate it. ... see all copies from $15.29! new only from $225.00!
12 view cover	Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance more books like this by Timothy J McGee add to wishlist see all copies from $46.65! new only from $52.53!
13	The Man Next Door Dances: The Art of Peter Bingham more books like this by Kaija Pepper add to wishlist see all copies from $35.00! new only from $39.50! \| first editions
14 view cover	Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World more books like this by Anthony Shay add to wishlist see all copies from $13.92! new only from $67.75!
15	Improvisation, dance, movement more books like this by Barbara Haselbach, Hilde Zemann add to wishlist see all copies from $18.76! new only from $76.57!
16	Improvisation, Hypermedia and the Arts Since 1945 more books like this by Hazel Smith, Dean Roger, Roger Dean add to wishlist In presenting their definition of improvisation, the authors consider developments in improvisation in the arts since 1945 by emphasizing process and techniques and by featurings artists from Grotowski and Laurie Anderson to Goldsworthy. Designed to be analytical and theoretical, this work should also be relevant to practitioners and their ... see all copies from $132.32! new only from $132.32!
17 view cover	Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance more books like this by Thomas J Fuchs add to wishlist see all copies from $72.98! new only from $72.98!
18	Group dance improvisations more books like this by Barbara Mettler add to wishlist see all copies from $42.00!
19	Innovisions: Expressions of Creativity in Dance more books like this by Coralie Hinkley add to wishlist see all copies from $4.45!

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