TY  - BOOK
AU  - Novack,Cynthia Jean
TI  - Sharing the dance: contact improvisation and American culture 
T2  - New directions in anthropological writing
SN  - 0299124401
AV  - GV1781.2 .N68 1990
U1  - 792.8 20
PY  - 1990///]
CY  - Madison, Wis.
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - Dance
KW  - Anthropological aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Improvisation in dance
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0666/89040534-b.html
ER  -