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Caught falling, the confluence of contact improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and other moving ideas, written and conceived by David Koteen and Nancy Stark Smith ; backwords by Steve Paxton

eng

contains biographical information

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Caught falling

276433021

written and conceived by David Koteen and Nancy Stark Smith ; backwords by Steve Paxton

the confluence of contact improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and other moving ideas

"The inside-out of dancer / Contact Quarterly editor Nancy Stark Smith's life as seen through the kaleidoscope of her thirty-six year involvement with Contact Improvisation. The book includes Q & As between the authors tracing the history of the dance form ; photos of dancing and living ; life stories ; anecdotes from friends, colleagues, and family ; and a description of Stark Smith's Underscore. The Underscore is a framework for practicing and researching dance improvisation that Stark Smith has been developing since the early 1990s. It is a score that guides dancers through a series of "changing states" from solo deepening / releasing and sensitizing to gravity and support, through group circulation and interaction, Contact Improvisation engagements, opening out to full group improvisation with compositional awareness, and back to rest and reflection."--Publisher's webpage

Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- David's prologue -- Nancy's introduction -- What is contact improvisation? -- Views through the windshield. Questions and answers -- Life stories -- Talk bubbles/Letters to the book -- Photos, photos, photos -- Backwords / by Steve Paxton -- The Underscore -- David's epi-chrono-logue -- Biographical notes -- Photo/Image credits -- Birthday poem / by Christina Svane