The Oxford handbook of improvisation in dance
- Submitting institution
-
Middlesex University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 1514
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
-
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199396986.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780199396986
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
-
http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/20689/
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
0
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This edited collection has 43 chapters by 50 authors, including both well established and unexpected/new voices. The research expands established improvisation discourse, which has largely focused upon US post-judson/grand union practices, to discuss improvisation in social, therapeutic, educational, and other contexts. In doing so the handbook extends our vision of the nature and significance of the improvisatory.
Midgelow places improvisation dance at the centre of the emerging field of critical studies in improvisation (see Heble and Canes 2015, Lewis and Piekut 2016), which has evolved largely from music. Her extended introduction proposes that we can best understand improvisation as 'a way of going about things’, identifying features that recur across practices and contexts to reveal the significance of the improvisatory.
Thematically arranged the collection reveals contemporary interests, articulating the ways in which improvisation informs and enhances: Life and Ethics, Attunement and Perception, Freedom and Resistance, Memory and Transmission, Agency, Cognition and Technologies, Ecologies and Techniques and Histories. The collection includes perspectives from philosophy, cognition and neuroscience, phenomenology, and ecology.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -