I Want to Be Ready: Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom
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I Want to Be Ready: Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom

Book

Date:
2010
ISBN:
9780472050840
Format:
Paperback
Description:
172 p. : ill. (b&w) ; 15 x 23 cm.
Summary:
"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." -- from the back of the book

Related Entities
Bill T. Jones (depicts)
Judson Dance Theatre (depicts)
Dianne McIntyre (depicts)
Steve Paxton (depicts)
The University of Michigan Press (published by)
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Modern Dance General Books