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Title: I WANT TO BE READY
IMPROVISED DANCE AS A PRACTICE OF FREEDOM
By: Danielle Goldman
Format: Hardback

List price: £64.95


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ISBN 10: 0472070843
ISBN 13: 9780472070848
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Pub. date: 4 May, 2010
Pages: 200
Description: Presents a conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America. This book also offers an understanding of the 'freedom' of improvisational dance. It is suitable for those interested in dance history and criticism, and for interdisciplinary audiences in the fields of American and cultural studies.
Synopsis: This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America. "I Want To Be Ready" draws on original archival research, careful readings of individual performances, and a thorough knowledge of dance scholarship to offer an understanding of the "freedom" of improvisational dance. While scholars often celebrate the freedom of improvised performances, they are generally focusing on freedom from formal constraints. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Houston Baker, among others, Danielle Goldman argues that this negative idea of freedom elides improvisation's greatest power. Far from representing an escape from the necessities of genre, gender, class, and race, the most skillful improvisations negotiate an ever shifting landscape of constraints. This work will appeal to those interested in dance history and criticism, and also interdisciplinary audiences in the fields of American and cultural studies.
Illustrations: 9 photographs
Publication: US
Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
Returns: Returnable
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