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

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.

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 Comedy Studies Reader

Author: Ian Wilkie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429614373
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 479

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.

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 Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 2

Author: George E. Lewis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190627972
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 592

The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance

Author: Vida L. Midgelow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199397007
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 800

Book Description
From the dance floor of a tango club to group therapy classes, from ballet to community theatre, improvised dance is everywhere. For some dance artists, improvisation is one of many approaches within the choreographic process. For others, it is a performance form in its own right. And while it has long been practiced, it is only within the last twenty years that dance improvisation has become a topic of critical inquiry. With The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance, dancer, teacher, and editor Vida L. Midgelow provides a cutting-edge volume on dance improvisation in all its facets. Expanding beyond conventional dance frameworks, this handbook looks at the ways that dance improvisation practices reflect our ability to adapt, communicate, and respond to our environment. Throughout the handbook, case studies from a variety of disciplines showcase the role of individual agency and collective relationships in improvisation, not just to dancers but to people of all backgrounds and abilities. In doing so, chapters celebrate all forms of improvisation, and unravel the ways that this kind of movement informs understandings of history, socio-cultural conditions, lived experience, cognition, and technologies.