Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture

Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture (New Directions in Anthropological Writing)

Â Â Â Â In Sharing the Dance, Cynthia Novack considers the development of contact improvisation within its web of historical, social, and cultural contexts.Â ThisÂ book examines the ways contact improvisers (and their surrounding communities) encode sexuality, spontaneity, and gender roles, as well as concepts of the self and society in their dancing.
Â Â Â Â While focusing on the changing practice of contact improvisation through two decades of social transformation, Novackâ€™s work incorporates the history of rock dancing and disco, the modern and experimental dance movements of Merce Cunningham, Anna Halprin, and Judson Church, among others, and a variety of other physical activities, such as martial arts, aerobics, and wrestling.
Country USA
Brand University of Wisconsin Press
Manufacturer University of Wisconsin Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780299124441
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780299124441
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Wisconsin Press
Manufacturer	University of Wisconsin Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780299124441
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780299124441
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture (New Directions in Anthropological Writing)