Improvised Dance Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book elucidates the technical aspects of improvised dance performance and reframes the notion of labour in the practice from one that is either based on compositionally formal logic or a mysterious impulse, to one that addresses the (in)corporeal dimensions of practice. Mobilizing the languages and conceptual frameworks of theories of affect, embodied cognition, somatics and dance, this book illustrates the work of specialist improvisers who occupy divergent positions within the complex fie...