Hiking the horizontal : field notes from a choreographer / / Liz Lerman

• Autore: Lerman Liz
• Pubblicazione: Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.8/2092
• Soggetto topico: Women choreographers - United States; Modern dance - United States - Philosophy; Choreography - United States - Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Hiking the Horizontal; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Questions as a Way of Life; Fueling the Imagination; Asking Questions as a Way of Life; Two Dances: The Oldest and One Not Yet Made; Wondering about Books; The Sounds of St. Albans; Was Einstein a Choreographer?; Influence, Inquiry, Action; Who Gets to Dance?; Manifesto; The Roosevelt, Dancing; The Shipyard, Dancing; Speech and Silence: The Who Matters; A Liberation in the Gallery; Being Another: One Kind of Technique; What Is the Dancing About?; I Met a Physicist ; Finding the Fish: On Meaning, Narrative, and Subject Matter DancingDancing on Both Sides of the Brain: An Essay in Text and Movement; Justice and Genetics: Two Program Notes; The Problem of Abstraction; Two Ways to Be an Angel; Portfolio of Site-Specific Dances; Where Is the Dance Happening?; Scene at a Bedside; Choreographing Space; My Favorite Night at Temple Micah; The Stage and Why It Matters; Three Places, Three Stories; Structures and Underpinnings; A Brief Conversation with a Friend; What Happens on a Residency?; Dilemmas of Practice in Art and Healing: Response to an E-mail ; Structure: The Container That Holds the DanceWhat Is the Toolbox?; Rehearsal, Defined and Redefined; Free Fall; Portfolio of Stage Dances; Transdomain Practices; Calling the Ancestors; In Defense of Creative Research; Onward with Petichta; Fresh Readings: Reviewing Books on Tango and Nureyev; Ruminations and Curiosities: A Series of Anecdotes and the Questions That Follow; Partnering and People; Seven Paths to Creativity; Politics; Two Assertions; A Return to Inquiry; Activism, Professionalism, Purity ; It Is Easier to Be against President Bush Than It Is to Change Small Dynamics in Our Own FieldA Job Swap and Slow Banking: Two Op-Eds; Pushing Back: A Rant in Three Movements; Small Righteous Angers; Bulky Love; To the Attendance Monitor at Sligo Creek Middle School; Motherhood: Stories and an Interview; Representation Found and Lost; Critical Response at Home; Bulky Love; Epilogue; Some Afterthoughts for the Paperback Edition; Appendix: List of Choreographed Works, 1974-2010; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Award-winning choreographer shares insights and methods for making real art in the real world
• Titolo autorizzato: Hiking the horizontal
• ISBN: 0-8195-7559-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465820003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II