Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture by Novack, Cynthia J.

Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780299124441)

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Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture by Novack, Cynthia J.

Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture

$21.95
Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture by Novack, Cynthia J.

Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture

$21.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Cynthia J. Novack
ISBN-10: 0299124444
ISBN-13: 9780299124441
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 08/15/1990
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 6.05h x 9.09w x 0.66d
By Cynthia J. Novack
By Cynthia J. Novack
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Cynthia J. Novack is an anthropologist, dancer/choreographer, and teacher. She is assistant professor of dance at Wesleyan College and a member of the Richard Bull Dance Theatre.

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