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OverviewDuring an improvised performance, both dancers and audience members reflect on how the dance is being made. They ask themselves: What will happen next? What choices will each dancer make? And how will these decisions contribute to the overall effect and significance of the performance? Trained as a jazz pianist, Richard Bull did not uphold the opposition often found in dance between improvisation and composition. Instead, he believed that dancers, like jazz musicians, could craft a piece spontaneously in performance. Analyzing performances by Bull and many of his contemporaries, Susan Foster argues that their diverse practices embody distinctive values representative of different artistic communities, yet they all share a capacity to reflect on their own making, in a sense, describing themselves. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Susan Leigh FosterPublisher: Wesleyan University Press Imprint: Wesleyan University Press Dimensions: Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.780kg ISBN: 9780819565518ISBN 10: 0819565512 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 04 October 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsFoster elegantly and seamlessly integrates the Africanist improvisational aesthetic into her lively, detailed picture of Bull's world, realigning a landscape that has too long suffered from ethnocentric skew. --Brenda Dixon Gottschild, author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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