Caught Falling: The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas - Softcover

Koteen, David; Smith, Nancy Stark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0937645095 ISBN 13: 9780937645093

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2021

Synopsis

The inside out of dancer and Contact Quarterly editor Nancy Stark Smith as seen through the kaleidoscope of her more than 40 year involvement with Contact Improvisation. The book includes Q and 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 her Underscore. The Underscore is a framework for practicing and researching dance improvisation that Stark Smith has been developing since the early 1990s. 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 reflection. David Koteen is a writer, a dancer, an organizer, who began dancing contact improvisation in 1981. Nancy Stark Smith danced in the first performances of Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton and others in 1972 and has since been central to its development as dancer, teacher, performer, writer, publisher, and organizer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0937645095
• ISBN 13: 9780937645093
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 128