Caught Falling: The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas Koteen David
Caught Falling: The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas Koteen David The inside-out of dancer/Contact Quarterly editor Nancy Stark Smith's life as seen…
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Caught Falling: The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas Koteen David
The inside-out of dancer/Contact Quarterly editor Nancy Stark Smith's life as seen through the kaleidoscope of her thirty-six year involvement with Contact Improvisation. The Underscore is a framework for practicing and researching dance improvisation that Stark Smith has been developing since the early 1990s. The book includes Q&As between the authors tracing the history of the dance form; photos of dancing and living; life stories; anecdotes from friends, colleagues, and family; and a description of Stark Smith's Underscore.
It is a score that guides dancers through a series of "changing states" from solo deepening/releasing and sensitizing to gravity and support, through group circulation and interaction, Contact Improvisation engagements, opening out to full group improvisation with compositional awareness, and back to rest and