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Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture de Cynthia J. Novack

Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture

Autor Cynthia J. Novack
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 aug 1990
    In Sharing the Dance, Cynthia Novack considers the development of contact improvisation within its web of historical, social, and cultural contexts.  This  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.
    While focusing on the changing practice of contact improvisation through two decades of social transformation, Novack’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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299124441
ISBN-10: 0299124444
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press

Recenzii

“In her book on contact improvisation and American culture, Novack finds a good balance between a clear analysis of the movement itself and a selected history of the cultural context of the inception of this dance form.  . . .  Novack has included a chapter based on her own experience with learning contact improvisation, which gives her historical writing a kind of self-reflexivity that is especially important within the field of dance scholarship.”—Choice
“Cynthia J. Novack is an anthropologist, dancer/choreographer, and teacher.  With striking intelligence and patience, she writes from all these perspectives in this book.”—Steve Paxton, Contact Quarterly
“Sharing the Dance is valuable not just for its insights into the recent history of dance but also for the structures through which Novack analyses dance as a medium which conveys cultural meanings and values. . . . A much needed contribution to dance studies.”—Burt Ramsay, Music, Theatre, Dance
 “[Novack’s] detailed descriptions of dancing, learning to dance, and watching dance provide substantive insights into processes through which the body is disciplined.  Because of its comprehensive interpretation of dance, Novack’s work should serve as an important model for future research by all those interested in the body’s cultural construction.”—Susan L. Foster, American Ethnologist

Notă biografică

Cynthia J. Novack is an anthropologist, dancer/choreographer, and teacher. She is assistant professor of dance at Wesleyan College and a member of the Richard Bull Dance Theatre.

Descriere

    In Sharing the Dance, Cynthia Novack considers the development of contact improvisation within its web of historical, social, and cultural contexts.  This  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.
    While focusing on the changing practice of contact improvisation through two decades of social transformation, Novack’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.