Sharing the dance : contact improvisation and American culture / Cynthia J. Novack.
Material type: TextSeries: New directions in anthropological writingPublisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1990]Copyright date: ©1990Description: xvii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0299124401
- 0299124444
- 9780299124403
- 9780299124441
- 792.8 20
- GV1781.2 .N68 1990
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 792.8 NOV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A374498B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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