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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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- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Contact Improvistaion and Anthropological Analysis
- 2. Contact Improvisation's Origins and Influences
- 3. "You Come. We'll Show You What We Do" : The Initial Development of Contact Improvisation
- 4. Dance as "Art-Sport" : Continuing the Form
- 5. Movement and Meaning in Contact Improvisation
- 6. Experiencing the Body
- 7. Cultural Symbols and Aesthetic Practices
- 8. Community, Values, and Authority
- 9. The Business of Performance
- References
- Index