Buckwalter, Melinda
Composing While Dancing: An Improviser's Companion
- ISBN 13:
- 9780299248147
- author:
- Buckwalter, Melinda
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- The University of Wisconsin Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2010
- Pages:
- 244
- Dimensions:
- 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
- Genre:
- Dance
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Composing while Dancing: An Improviser's Companion offers a comprehensive exploration of improvisational dance, featuring twenty-six top contemporary artists. Melinda Buckwalter provides a practical primer to the dance form, covering essential aspects such as spatial relations and the dancing image.
The book includes sample practices from the featured artists, exercises for further research, and a glossary of terms, making it an invaluable resource for dancers and dance educators. By gathering history, methods, interviews, and biographies in one volume, Buckwalter showcases the many facets of improvisational dance.
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