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Dances that describe themselves : the improvised choreography of Richard Bull
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Dances that describe themselves : the improvised choreography of Richard Bull

Author: Susan Leigh Foster
Publisher: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Richard Bull; Richard Bull, Choreograph.
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Susan Leigh Foster
ISBN: 0819565504 9780819565501 0819565512 9780819565518
OCLC Number: 49625229
Description: xiii, 334 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Genealogies of Improvisation --
Structuring Improvisation --
Appropriating the Improvisatory --
Scoring the Unanticipated --
Corporeal Spontaneity --
Improvised Democracies --
Conversations --
2. Making and Doing --
Daniel Nagrin's Workgroup --
The Grand Union --
Dianne McIntyre's Sounds in Motion --
Contact Improvisation --
Richard Bull's New York Chamber Dance Group --
Improvising Community --
3. Economies of Community --
Financing Dances --
The Warren Street Performance Loft --
Training and Rehearsing --
4. Speech as Act --
Talking Dance --
Signifying Dancing --
The Grand Union --
Trisha Brown's Accumulation (1971) with Talking (1973) Plus Watermotor (1977) --
Bill T. Jones's Floating the Tongue and 21 --
Ishmael Houston-Jones's Part 2: Relatives --
Person-abilities --
Storying Dance --
Interlude: Epistolary Choreographies from the Dance That Descrbes Itself --
5. Improvising Choreography --
Re-membering Past, Present, and Future --
App. A. A Chronological Listing of Works by Richard Bull --
App. B. Selected Writings by Richard Bull.
Responsibility: Susan Leigh Foster.
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