The Improvisation Studies Reader

Author: Ajay Heble
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136187138
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 717

Book Description
Improvisation is a performance practice that animates and activates diverse energies of inspiration, critique, and invention. In recent years it has coalesced into an exciting and innovative new field of interdisciplinary scholarly inquiry, becoming a cornerstone of both practical and theoretical approaches to performance. The Improvisation Studies Reader draws together the works of key artists and thinkers from a range of disciplines, including theatre, music, literature, film, and dance. Divided by keywords into eight sections, this book bridges the gaps between these fields. The book includes case studies, exercises, graphic scores and poems in order to produce a teaching and research resource that identifies central themes in improvisation studies. The sections include: Listening Trust/Risk Flow Dissonance Responsibility Liveness Surprise Hope Each section of the Reader is introduced by a newly commissioned think piece by a key figure in the field, which opens up research questions reflecting on the keyword in question. By placing key theoretical and classic texts in conversation with cutting-edge research and artists’ statements, this book answers the urgent questions facing improvising artists and theorists in the mediatized Twenty-First Century.

The Improvisation Studies Reader

Author: Rebecca Caines
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136187146
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 479

Book Description
Interdisciplinary approach chimes with current teaching trends Each section opens with specially commissioned thinkpiece from major scholar The first reader to address improvisation from a performance studies perspective

Taken by Surprise

Author: Ann Cooper Albright
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819566485
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
First comprehensive overview of improvisation in dance.

The Routledge Dance Studies Reader

Author: Alexandra Carter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415485983
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the mid to late 20th century, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement performance' jazz and ethnic dance.

The Routledge Dance Studies Reader

Author: Jens Richard Giersdorf
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135173486
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the mid-to-late twentieth century, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement performance' jazz and ethnic dance.

I Want to Be Ready

Author: Danielle Goldman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472050842
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 187

Book Description
A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America

The Routledge Dance Studies Reader

Author: Jens Richard Giersdorf
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351613847
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 808

Book Description
The Routledge Dance Studies Reader has been expanded and updated, giving readers access to thirty-seven essential texts that address the social, political, cultural, and economic impact of globalization on embodiment and choreography. These interdisciplinary essays in dance scholarship consider a broad range of dance forms in relation to historical, ethnographic, and interdisciplinary research methods including cultural studies, reconstruction, media studies, and popular culture. This new third edition expands both its geographic and cultural focus to include recent research on dance from Southeast Asia, the People’s Republic of China, indigenous dance, and new sections on market forces and mediatization. Sections cover: Methods and approaches Practice and performance Dance as embodied ideology Dance on the market and in the media Formations of the field. The Routledge Dance Studies Reader includes essays on concert dance (ballet, modern and postmodern dance, tap, kathak, and classical khmer dance), popular dance (salsa and hip-hop), site-specific performance, digital choreography, and lecture-performances. It is a vital resource for anyone interested in understanding dance from a global and contemporary perspective.

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies

Author: George Lewis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019989292X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 601

Book Description
V. 1. Cognitions -- v. 2. Critical theories

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1

Author: George E. Lewis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199707936
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 617

Book Description
Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with contributions from more than sixty scholars working in architecture, anthropology, art history, computer science, cognitive science, cultural studies, dance, economics, education, ethnomusicology, film, gender studies, history, linguistics, literary theory, musicology, neuroscience, new media, organizational science, performance studies, philosophy, popular music studies, psychology, science and technology studies, sociology, and sound art, among others.

The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader

Author: Ian Wilkie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429614373
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 451

Book Description
The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal Comedy Studies in the decade since its inception in 2010. The Reader illustrates the multiple perspectives that are available when analysing comedy. Wilkie’s selections present an array of critical approaches from interdisciplinary scholars, all of whom evaluate comedy from different angles and adopt a range of writing styles to explore the phenomenon. Divided into eight unique parts, the Reader offers both breadth and depth with its wide range of interdisciplinary articles and international perspectives. Of interest to students, scholars, and lovers of comedy alike, The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader offers a contemporary sample of general analyses of comedy as a mode, form, and genre.